Yields Of The Week: June 7 - June 13 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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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

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

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

The link to this filtered table above is here 

Bonus: Aave’s Umbrella officially went live recently and as DeFi Dad points out below, the yields are very solid:

But what are the risks? There’s a very thorough breakdown in their docs here.

Here’s an excerpt from the docs where I’ve highlighted a particularly important section in red. Essentially, I will be approaching these as fairly low risk:

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 ETH vaults (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 

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

The link to this filtered table above is here 

Bonus: I’m always keeping an eye on what Stephen from DeFi Dojo is up to and he had a nice thread on ETH yields that showcased some solid Mantle yield opportunities:

One other thing on Mantle, they are leaning heavily into the Hyperliquid ecosystem (smart) with an initiative they are calling DAL (Double Adaptive Liquidity). This is all being spearheaded by the Mantle Scouts Program in collaboration with HypurrCollective and I happen to be a Mantle Scout so I wanted to share this with everyone who reads The Edge Newsletter as well. I think we see even deeper partnerships start to form between Mantle x Hyperliquid.

Currently, mETH Protocol is live on Morphobeat, HyperSwap, HypurrFi, and Hyperbeat/Mizu. Their flagship cmETH is already ~50% of the TVL in the HyperETH vault.

If you want to read up more on this initiative between Mantle x Hyperliquid you can check it out here

Yield Trading

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

Stables

We are investors in GAIB that has two tokens in the top 5 this week (AIDaUSDC + AIDaUSDT). If anyone wants to learn more about this novel protocol and where the yield comes from, we wrote all about it here:

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.

Last week we highlighted Maple’s SyrupUSDC pool on Kamino’s Multiply vault. We showcased the lower APY version that borrowed USDC under the hood which just felt a bit more comfortable to me. This week we’re highlighting the higher APY loop that borrows GUSD under the hood. I wasn’t familiar with GUSD (Global Dollar) until now, but they seem to have some exceptional partnerships and decent early traction ($311M FDV).

My only worry here with with GUSD is its a bit less familiar to me than some of the other big stables. I checked on Coingecko and they did have what looks like a depeg back in January of 2025 so I would approach this with a bit of caution, but hopefully they’ve ironed out any hiccups by now.

This loop is currently yielding around 22% APY and still $2M in liquidity available at the time of writing this:

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

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