Yield


Finance

Coinbase pushes back against banks to keep rewarding users for holding stablecoins

Disagreements over stablecoin rewards have frayed bipartisan support for the bill, with traders estimating a 68-70% chance of passage this year.

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Finance

Former Brazil central bank official unveils real-pegged stablecoin with yield sharing

The stablecoin will be backed by Brazil's National Treasury bonds and offer exposure to the country's interest rate, currently 15%.

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Markets

XRP price reaction muted even as new income-generation opportunity appears

XRP's price action aligns with broader market trends, but, contrarily, negative social sentiment may signal a potential rebound.

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Markets

Ripple’s Asia venture looks to make XRP a yield-bearing asset

SBI Digital Markets, a unit regulated by Singapore’s Monetary Authority, has been appointed as the institutional custodian, offering segregated custody for client assets.

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Finance

Most Influential: Guy Young

Young sparked a new category of digital assets, yieldcoins, that sits at the intersection of DeFi rails and TradFi basis trades.

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Web3

YO Labs Raises $10M to Scale Cross-Chain Crypto Yield Optimization Protocol

The protocol automates yield generation by rebalancing capital across DeFi protocols, factoring in risk, and offers access to various assets.

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Finance

A16z-Backed Daylight Brings Electricity Markets Onchain With New DeFi Protocol

The DayFi protocol aims to turn electricity cash flows into a crypto-native yield product, bridging capital to new solar power installations.

Daylight founder Jason Badeaux (Daylight)

CoinDesk Indices

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Yield Products

Why systematic crypto yield is emerging as the path to cash-flow-based returns, making it the most durable bridge to mainstream portfolios.

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Finance

DeFi Lender Aave to Roll Out Retail Crypto Yield App on Apple’s App Store

With the Aave App, users will be able to earn over 5% annual yield on their deposits, higher than money market funds, the protocol said in a blog post.

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Policy

U.S. Clears Way for Crypto ETPs to Get Into Yield Without Triggering Tax Problems

The Internal Revenue Service issued new guidance that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said offers a "clear path" to stake digital assets for trusts.

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