Yields Of The Week: May 10 - May 16 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

(Note: Trying something new this week, we’re looking back at the best 30 day yields)

Here’s links to the top 5 yielding stablecoin pools (non-boosted) for the past 30 days according to Vaults.fyi:

12.29% - Resolv RLP (not a stablecoin - RLP comes as added risk as first loss junior tranche if Resolv has issues)

9.61% - Staked lvlUSD

7.84% - Resolv stUSR

7.13% - Dolomite: USDC

7.13% - Syrup USDT

Full list below:

Bonus: Last week we covered Midas extensively, which is a very exciting new DeFi product who’s goal is to bring institutional grade DeFi to the masses (If you missed it, check it out here).

This week we’re looking at Pareto which is building a private credit marketplace that connects institutional lenders and borrowers (a bit similar to Maple).

The team behind Pareto are crypto veterans that previously raised capital for Idle Finance. I have not personally used Pareto, but I’ve got to meet some of the team and find their vision really interesting. It also helps they’re showcasing some nice yields:

With this product there is either “verification” or KYC required:

However, as I’m typing this, their USP yield bearing token was just announced. Staking USP (sUSP) will allow users to capture yields from their RWA private credit strategies. You can learn more in their own blog here.

Cointelegraph just published this:

Private credit is starting to find a home onchain. We’re really seeing this pickup speed and even the likes of Larry Fink is talking about the democratization of access to private credit markets. That said, with these new yield streams to DeFi comes new risks and I always recommend reading the docs and getting as much information as possible before deploying any capital.

Bonus: Our Maple Edge community boost on Drips is still ongoing.

TLDR

Our community earns a higher APY if you use this code: https://syrup.fi/lend?referral=STAaNBFJwIc8

Here’s what the UI looks like with our boost:

We wrote it all up below which includes details on their May prize pool where they have $500k USDC in prizes:

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 30 days according to Vaults.fyi:

4.92% - Instadapp ETH v2

4.30% - MEV Capital wETH

3.69% - Gauntlet WETH Core

3.68% - Index Coop hyETH

3.52% - Re7 WETH

Full list below:

Bonus: The rise of the auto-rebalancing vaults has is another cool trend. We’ve highlighted Tokemak’s Autopools a lot and Harvest’s Autopilot vaults.

Here’s how both stack up this week:

autoETH 6.56% APY ( 5.84% Base + 0.72% TOKE - almost fully real yield now):

Autopilot Vault ETH 6.08% APY (on 7 day lookback)

Yield Trading

I’ve been wanting someone to build this:

There’s finally people trying it out. I think we’re going to see a lot more of this very soon. Personally, I love the idea of getting exposure to PTs that can handle any rollovers or rebalances so you can always be getting the best passive PT yields. Check this out:

Let’s take a look at the top PT fixed-term yields on Pendle this week!

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.

Pendle PTs have found incredible PMF in DeFi. One way to take advantage of the high fixed yield is to loop them. Lately, the csUSDL (from Coinshift) YT has been fairly popular which has really boosted the PT yield.

Check out this PT loop on Morpho here:

One heads up here, the borrow rate has risen since this tweet and is now 7.45%. This means the delta between lend and borrow has closed so the APY will be lower but still fairly attractive.

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

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