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Yields Of The Week: March 01 - March 07 2025
Curating The Best Yields In DeFi
Welcome to Yields of the Week! Every Friday, we spotlight the top DeFi yields across the crypto landscape, focusing on opportunities that are not just the highest APYs but also sustainable and unique opportunities. Whether you're new to DeFi or a seasoned degen, our goal is to help you navigate the yield farming space with confidence. Expect hands-on tutorials, expert strategies, and everything you need to master the digital asset space—starting with the best yields the market has to offer. Let’s dive into this week’s picks!
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Before we get started, this is never a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) mentioned, and here’s a few risks to consider:
Smart contract risk in any underlying protocols
Pool size and liquidity depth
Front-end spoof attack on an app frontend
An economic design exploit
Colluding signers on any multisig
Systemic risk across DeFi, including stablecoin depegs
Stablecoin Yields
(Note: we’ve upped all minimum TVL thresholds from $1M to $10M)
Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:
11.72% - Tulipa Resolv USDC
11.42% - sDOLA
10.63% - Ether.Fi Liquid USD
10.61% - Euler Prime USDC
10.54% - Resolv USDC Vault
Full list below:
Min $10M TVL
We’re sharing a few of our favorite stablecoin yield threads/ideas we saw this week:
First up is McKenna sharing the stability of Syrup stable yields:
If anyone is looking for solid stablecoin farming during this period of risk-off then syrupUSDC has shown consistent yields above the base rate over the last few months.
TVL on Maple Finance has now surged >$700M and the Syrup product is now above $100M in TVL. Expecting Maple… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— McKenna (@Crypto_McKenna)
3:59 PM • Mar 5, 2025
Next up is a nice list from Stopthefire01:
Honestly, this cycle was literally an ANTI-ROUNDTRIP gift - thanks to huge opportunities in stablecoin farming (you're literally incentivized to hold and use your stables).
During bull runs, we rarely saw this, but now, damn, everywhere you look they're paying out 20% in… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— stopthefire01 (@Stopthefire01)
3:30 PM • Mar 5, 2025
Stephen from DeFi Dojo always does a great job curating some of the best stablecoin yields in DeFi:
Time to formalize these threads to be referenceable as periodicals.
BEST STABELCOIN YIELDS, ISSUE #1
March 4th, 2025 x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Stephen | DeFi Dojo (@phtevenstrong)
6:42 PM • Mar 4, 2025
And finally, fixed yields on Term are looking nice here too (maturities have been updated):
Real APYs. Double digits.
No long-winded math.
➡️ app.term.finance/earn
— Term Labs (@term_labs)
2:30 PM • Mar 4, 2025
ETH & BTC Yields
(Note: we’ve upped all minimum TVL thresholds from $1M to $10M)
Here’s links to the top 5 yielding ETH and BTC pools for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:
7.19% - Euler Prime WETH
6.80% - Instadapp ETH v2
6.16% - Seamless WETH Vault
5.70% - MEV Capital WETH
5.53% - Gauntlet WETH Core
Full list below:
Min $10M TVL
Bonus: One of the reasons Tokemak has become a mainstay here is because of its high yield but also transparency. You know what you’re getting and furthermore, Archer put out an excellent piece this week showing how they display their APYs and how accurate they are compared to much of DeFi. Check it out here:
Using the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR) as a benchmark, Autopilot's flagship Autopool (autoETH) is outperforming the CESR by 494bps.
This is a 2.6x increase in ETH gains.
— ┻┳ S. ArchΞr (@Archer_MD_)
7:53 PM • Mar 4, 2025
Here is their flagship AutoETH pool that’s yielding 11.21% APY:
(8.25% ETH + 2.96% TOKE)
Yield Trading
Some quick news, Pendle is moving towards permissionless yield markets, check out this post from the main account:
Pendle is opening up.
And we're one step closer to permissionless yield markets.
Introducing the first asset fully deployed externally.
— Pendle (@pendle_fi)
2:00 PM • Mar 5, 2025
Here’s some of the best PT yields across ETH, BTC and Stables
ETH
8.55% - 10.19%
BTC
8.52% - 11.92%
Stables
16.3% - 17.84%
Leverage Looping Yields
Looping can be a very effective leverage strategy to earn more yield, but one must be cautious to monitor borrowing rates, and liquidations which are a necessary cost to generate such leveraged yields (we don’t recommend max leverage). It’s also important to know if you’re going after points or real yield when looping.
We’re highlighting Build On Bitcoin (BOB) once again this week as Euler expanded there recently and these strategies have some nice incentives. Check out this one below for SolvBTC:
(Yields above are currently incentivized with rEUL and OP rewards)
One last one. The USL pool by Usual and Euler has been capping out, but a proposal recently passed to raise it to $500M capacity. The Usual Intern breaks this opportunity down nicely below. It could be worth keeping an eye on this one:
Going into a bear market?
Putting back on your KFC cap?
Fret not, @usualmoney is here to provide a simple yet effective LOOPING strategy, giving you:
- Over 30% APY;
- Fixed borrow rate (so you can sleep like a baby at night), and;
- Upside potential on USD0++ 🤯
🧵👇
— Usual intern (@Usual_Intern)
3:00 PM • Mar 4, 2025
That’s all for now, thanks for checking it out!
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