Yields Of The Week: May 3 - May 9 2025

Curating The Best Yields In DeFi

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Nomatic & DeFi Dad
May 07, 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:

7.55% - sDOLA

7.51% - Staked lvlUSD

7.35% - Syrup USDT

6.76% - Syrup USDC

Full list below:

Min $10M TVL (non-boosted) - 30 day avg

Moonwell Vaults: Easy Double-Digit Yields on Base with USDC, ETH, & EURC

A guide to Moonwell's Flagship Vaults

www.the-edge.xyz/p/moonwell-vaults-easy-double-digit-yields-on-base-with-usdc-eth-eurc

Bonus: Midas (I’m still in the process of doing my own due diligence, and have not deployed capital here yet, but it’s a very cool product on the surface).

Midas is extremely interesting. It issues Liquid Yield Tokens that are backed by onchain strategies. The strategies themselves are carried out by curators like: MEV Capital, Edge Capital and Re7.

These yields are very industry competitive yields across the board. One thing I wasn’t able to verify or find on the site is whether or not all this yield is “real yield” or partly backed up by other protocol token rewards.

This particular stablecoin strategy is showing a 12.37% APY. APY calculation:

“We calculate the Trailing 1-Month APY by finding the average based on the price changes over the past month. This average monthly return is then compounded over a full year to estimate the annual percentage yield you might expect if the recent performance continued throughout the year.”

Lastly, one thing to be aware of when it comes to “Issuance” and “Redemption”:

Bonus: Maple has extended the Edge community a boost on Drips.

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:

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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:

3.88% - Re7 WETH

3.47% - Frax sfrxETH

Full list below:

Min $10M TVL (non-boosted) - 30 day avg

Bonus: Going back to Midas again to showcase this BTC yield that’s netting 6.48% APY (3.97% since inception):

Yield Trading

We’ve talked a lot of Midas this week so why not one more. This LP on Pendle has some really strong APY if you are a vePENDLE holder (note APY now ~18% - ~19%)

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

Stables

11.83% - 31.2% (note USDe Bera Concrete is highly skewed due to immanent pool maturity)

BTC

2.83% - 6.5%

ETH

6.88% - 10.05%

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.

This just launched from the Index Coop team and is powered by Morpho:

This is pretty cool as they’ve actually tokenized this loop strategy. If you want to read more on it here’s a link to their full blog:

Introducing Smart Loops | wstETH15x

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