Yields Of The Week: July 12 - July 18 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. Let’s dive into this week’s picks!

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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

Before we begin…

This week we’ll be looking at the best 30 day avg yields with no incentives.

We love using vaults.fyi and they just released reputation scores, check it out:

Stablecoin Yields

Here’s the top yielding stablecoin vaults (non-boosted) for the past 30 days according to Vaults.fyi:

The link to this filtered table above is here 

Bonus: Term now has ~$26M in their vault products and is cooking with stablecoin yields up to 15% APY:

Bonus: How about ~27% APY yield on your stablecoin position with no leverage? As long as you’re cool with holding either of RLP or USDC you can do that with “Smart Lending” on Fluid.

Now that animal spirits are flowing again, it makes sense to look to the funding rate coins like Resolv/Ethena:

ETH & BTC Yields

Here’s the top yielding ETH vaults (non-boosted) for the past 30 days according to Vaults.fyi:

The link to this filtered table above is here

Here’s the top yielding BTC vaults (non-boosted) for the past 30 days according to Vaults.fyi:

The link to this filtered table above is here 

Bonus: The HYPE yield on Felix is very nice right now and is currently fluctuating between 6% - 10% APY. Charlie is absolutely on point with this breakdown (no leverage, no incentives and all real yield):

Yield Trading

I’m very bullish HyperEVM and Rumpel (one of our amazing partners) will be supporting one of my favorite teams building in the HyperEVM ecosystem - Kinetiq.

So not only will you be able to take profits on your Kinetiq points immediately (if you so choose), you will also be able to speculate and buy Kinetiq points if you think they are undervalued 👀 

There’s a team we’ve covered previously in this newsletter called Pareto who have some nice fixed yields on their PTs via Napier Finance. Check this out, 38.62% APY:

If you want to learn a bit more, they wrote a great article on these yields right here.

Here’s what the top yield markets on Pendle look like across Stables, BTC and ETH:

Stables

BTC

ETH

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.

Here’s two looping ideas this week. This first one is coming 🔜 and its from Gearbox. They estimate a 30% APY on ETH loops and it’s highly scalable 👀 (should be live in the next few days):

This other opportunity is one I sniped from Stephen at DeFi Dojo and showcases an ETH loop opportunity netting up to ~37%:

That’s all for now, thanks for checking it out!

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