Yield Farming


Opinion

Stop Chasing DeFi Yields and Start Doing the Math

The DeFi industry has trained everyone to optimize for headline APY numbers while burying the costs that determine your returns, argues Blueprint Finance CEO Nic Roberts-Huntley

Piggy banks (Unsplash/Insung Yoon/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Yield Hunters Flock to HyperLiquid Staking Ecosytem to Farm Kintetiq's Airdrop

Total value locked on Kinetiq has jumped from roughly $458 million in July to over $2.1 billion today. Part of the increase can be attributed to a rise in the price of HYPE, and the other big driver has been raw deposits.

Farming (James Baltz/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Holders Can Now Earn Automated Yield Via $2B Solv Protocol

Solv Protocol has launched BTC+, an automated vault for generating yield on bitcoin holdings, offering a base yield of 4.5% to 5.5%.

BTC holders can harvest automated yield on Solv. (rainerh11/Pixabay)

Finance

DeFi Sector TVL Hits 3-Year High of $153B as Investors Rush to Farm Yields

Ethereum leads the DeFi boom with nearly 60% market share, while advanced yield strategies and rising activity on Solana and Sui drive cross-chain growth.

Farming (James Baltz/Unsplash)

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Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

How Ether.fi's Mike Silagadze Retained TVL as Restaking Lost Its Luster

Ether.fi, the market leader, has 2.6 million ETH staked on its platform and has plans to become a neobank.

Mike Silagadze (Consensus Hong Kong)

Finance

Crypto for Advisors: DeFi Yields, the Revival

Crews Enochs, from Index Coop, discusses the revival of DeFi Yields and D.J. Windle answers questions about DeFi investing in Ask an Expert.

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Finance

Stablecoin Project Gyroscope to Conduct Points Program, Launch High-Yield Liquidity Pools

The Galaxy Ventures-backed project expects its “Rehype” liquidity pools could generate mid-double digit returns, developers said.

(Danielbaise/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

Blast's One-Week, $600M Haul Shows Promise of Yield, Pitfalls of Hype

The idea of a yield-paying layer-2 blockchain atop Ethereum has clearly demonstrated market allure. But even the project's biggest investor has taken issue with the execution and marketing surrounding the initial rollout.

Blast founder Tieshun "Pacman" Roquerre is suddenly fending off the critics. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Digital Asset Platform Coinchange Raises $10M to Scale API Yield Service

The funding round was led by G1.VC, Spirit Blockchain, Good News Ventures, K2.CA and Atoia Ventures, with Mintfox also participating.

Coin jar (Josh Appel/Unsplash)

Markets

Flux Finance Launches Lending Token Collateralized by U.S. Treasurys

Flux Finance invests in Ondo’s Short-Term U.S. Government Bond Fund (OUSG) a tokenized version of a Blackrock Treasury Bond ETF.

The U.S. Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the role of cryptocurrencies in illicit finance, and its own response to this issue. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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