Yields Of The Week: March 08 - March 14 2025

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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🖥️ PYTH | SMARTER DATA FOR SMARTER CONTRACTS

⌛️ HOURGLASS | LEVERAGE AIRDROP FARMING

🪄 TANSSI | LAUNCH YOUR SYMBIOTIC RESTAKED NETWORK IN MINUTES

📈 ⁠iYIELD | YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED

🧪 MANTLE | START YOUR RESTAKING JOURNEY TODAY WITH CMETH

🐡 PUFFER FINANCE | LIQUID RESTAKING FOR THE LITTLE FISH

🌔 MOONWELL | THE LEADING LENDING AND BORROWING APP ON BASE

🐐 ⁠GOAT NETWORK⁠ | A BITCOIN L2 TO EARN WITH BTC & DOGE

⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | ONCHAIN LENDING REIMAGINED

📈 DEFINITIVE | THE MOST ADVANCED PLATFORM FOR ONCHAIN TRADING

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’re now showing non-boosted yields and boosted yields that include rewards)

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools (non-boosted) for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

9.81% - Tulipa Resolv USDC

8.76% - Fluid USDT

8.76% - Ether.Fi Liquid USD

8.61% - Syrup USDT

8.58% - Savings xDAI (sDAI)

Full list below:

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools (boosted) for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

10.07% - Euler Prime USDC

9.81% - Tulipa Resolv USDC

9.71% - Euler Base USDS

9.23% - Euler Yield USDC

8.77% - Fluid USDT

Full list below:

Bonus: Somehow Superform wasn’t on our radar until recently. It started coming up more in my X comments and we finally took a look. They have some great stable and passive yields. Their flagship USDC pool on mainnet was offering a 9.26% APY as you can see in the image below when DeFi Dad posted about it this week. They source these yields from very reputable protocols in - Morpho, Aave, Euler and Fluid:

Here’s a link to this full thread above for more of DeFi Dad’s yield favorites:

Bonus: Spark has built an exceptional track record as a DeFi powerhouse and they just launched a new USDC vault offering a competitive 6.5% APY. See below for details:

ETH & BTC Yields

(Note: we’re now showing non-boosted yields and boosted yields that include rewards)

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding ETH and BTC pools (non-boosted) for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

36.82% - Ankr ankrETH

(Note: I think Ankr may have had a large MEV block/a catchup or update error on reporting APY - this is likely not sustainable)

6.76% - Instadapp ETH v2

4.65% - MEV Capital wETH

4.48% - Gauntlet LBTC Core

4.26% - Gauntlet WETH Core

Full list below:

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding ETH and BTC pools (boosted) for the past 7 days according to Vaults.fyi:

36.82% - Ankr ankrETH

(Note: I think Ankr may have had a large MEV block/a catchup or update error on reporting APY - this is likely not sustainable)

6.76% - Instadapp ETH v2

6.07% - Seamless WETH Vault

5.19% - MEV Capital wETH

4.8% - Gauntlet WETH Core

Full list below:

Bonus: One of the reasons Tokemak has become a mainstay here is because of its high yield but also transparency in how they present their yields.

Here’s their flagship AutoETH pool that’s yielding 9.65% APY:

Yield Trading

Checking in on what Pendle is cooking this week!

Here’s some of the best PT yields across ETH, BTC and Stables

ETH

BTC

Stables

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 going back to Gearbox and highlighting a project called Coinshift. They have the highest looping yield on Gearbox this week! They’ve been going a bit under the radar, but now have ~$35M in their flagship csUSDL yield bearing stablecoin. This looping opportunity is also yielding some nice SHIFT points:

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