BOB is a BTC-centric EVM superchain. More importantly, they're running an incentives campaign.
You can find most of the incentives on @merkl_xyz.
Anywho, RIGHT NOW you can loop BTC derivates for over 100% APR.
BUT THERE ARE A FEW IMPORTANT POINTS TO MAKE:
1) Slippage matters. I do NOT recommend auto-leveraging through illiquid markets. You can get rekt.
2) Some of the incentives are in rEUL which has a vesting mechanism.
3) Unwinding can also wreck you if you do it automatically, I recommend manually doing it.
FINALLY, the LBTC markets, with over $12,000,000 BTC to borrow are 34% APR and 67% APR respectively.
PLUS POINTS. These are the best @Lombard_Finance opportunities out there, hands down.
2) @SolvProtocol solv.BTC.BNB
Solv has a new BTC derivative that allows you to participate in Binance Launchpad opportunities or staking yield with you BTC.
On top of that, you get points:
► @lista_dao
► @AstherusHub
► @kernel_dao
► @SolvProtocol (s2)
This allows for a 5-10% native yield on a BTC derivative, and a speculative play on the underlying protocol points.
I hope it also gets some composability!
3) @MorphoLabs🤝@Contango_xyz🤝@pendle_fi
With a whopping 8.5 BTC principle to deploy into this, pendle PTs strike again.
Expiry: May 29th
Max Yield: 23.1%
Leverage: 9.27x
Oracle: Pendle AMM
This is on @base and an incredibly attractive yield for the Base airdrop speculator who's also a BTC maximalist.
4) cbBTC on @KaminoFinance
Currently, Kamino has an 300K/mo incentives package specifically to borrow USDC against cbBTC.
That means the net cost to borrow stables against cbBTC is roughly 2%.
WHICH MEANS, if you can get a yield higher than 2%, you can get a positive yield on your cbBTC collateral.
EXAMPLE: 1) Collateralize $100,000 cbBTC 2) Borrow $50,000 USDC 3) Bridge to Base 4) Loop sUSDS / USDS on @growcompound for 27%
RESULT:
➢ 12.5% net LTV
➢ $51K BTC liquidation level
➢ Potential Base Airdrop participation
5) Liquidity Plays
This one is sneaky. It's the liquidBeraBTC BOYCO vault receipt token.
It's depegged by 1% because you can't redeem it until Boyco ends.
Here, you can see 70K 7-Day volume through 130-Day Liquidity.
That annualizes to 30% APR.
The caveat, of course, is that you'd have to either put buy-side liquidity in WBTC and wait for more sell pressure to enter, or buy some liquidBeraBTC from this 1% fee tier to enter, which may eat the later gains.
This is NOT for the greenhorn yield farmer.
Those are my top 5
BTC is notoriously difficult to find yields on. Nevertheless, I hope you found this useful.
If there are any obvious BTC yields that I missed, PLEASE LET ME KNOW in the comments below.
The interesting thing about these markets, is that they have more available liquidity than the "Total Supply."
Here's how that works:
Liquidity can be reallocated into the market "just-in-time" via the "public allocator contract" which allows liquidity from other markets to flow into these ad-hoc.
I.E., so long as the interest rate is compelling for @gauntlet_xyz vaults, liquidity from other markets will be re-directed from their other markets to these.
Borrowers can therefore access liquidity outside of what is immediately provited.
A few incredible new stablecoin strategies came online recently, so...
Mini-thread🧵👇
1) @Dolomite_io HAS E-MODE
This is a bigger deal than you can probably imagine, given that they also have $400M of sticky BOYCO liquidity.
There are a few opportunities here worth noting.
A. @reservoir_xyz srUSD/HONEY
7% Collateral Yield
2.55% Borrow Cost
10x Leverage = 47% + Points on Notional
B. @ethena_labs sUSDe/USDC
6.22% Collateral Yield
2.55% Borrow Cost
10x Leverage = 40% + Sats on Notional
Reservoir uses NAV oracles AFAIK
I'm personally farming this.
2) @syrupfi on @Contango_xyz
I mentioned this yesterday, but here's my whole thesis.
► SyrupUSDC has a ~7% organic APR
► I can lock for 6mo for max $SYRUP emissions (+5%)
► I don't mind doing this because there's an LP to exit through if need be
► Gauntlet is curating on Morpho, so there should be consistent liquidity
I'll be doing just my Top 10, since believe it or not, stablecoin yields are boomin' and I can't write forever.
This week we've seen a continuation of what I formerly called catastrophic price action.
But, thank God, humans experience this little thing called "the hedonic treadmill" where we emotionally normalize to whatever highs or lows we're pushed to so that no matter where we end up, after the initial shock, we re-regulate.
Nevertheless, the yields👇
1) @protocol_fx Stability Pool (12%, but some alpha)
Last week, I accidentally left out fxUSD's stability pool, so in honor of that, I've decided to make them first.
Also, f(x) will soon™ launch fxSAVE which will be a liquid-wrapped version of the stability pool. That's a big deal.
Why? Because the fxUSD stability pool boasts roughly 12% in $wstETH yield. Imagine getting that as intrinsic yield on an interest-bearing stablecoin.
12% might not knock your socks off, but once we have composability, it'll be one of the best yields in town as far as collateral stable yields go.
Like many KOLs, I spend most of my days in meetings, in the telegram trenches, on Discord, and in Twitter DMs scraping for alpha, getting updates, asking questions about protocols, and trying to get a sense of the direction of all this stuff.
And there's a growing sentiment that Solana will become a serious competitor for institutional capital in the not-too-distant future.
I'm hopeful. I also think it has a good shot at cornering a lot of the RWA market, to my own surprise.
ANYWHO, let's dive into the yields👇
Fixed Rate / Fixed Date (Plus Points)
@RateX_Dex allows you to get a fixed rate return on fragSOL at 17% APR WHILE ALSO getting Rate-X points.
This is a highly competitive fixed rate yield and it lasts for the next half year.
Historically, $BTC has been hard to get yields on.
Restaking and Vaults, however, have unlocked BTCfi for us this cycle so now we can expect ~5% APR or more if we're clever.
And, imo, this is just the beginning.
Let's dive in👇
@SolvProtocol runs BTC-Neutral strategies for you.
The thesis is simple (and it's what we did last cycle to get yield on BTC), collateralize BTC, borrow something yieldy, and then get yield on that while you're long BTC.
Solv has a bunch of products, but most notably:
Solv.BTC.jup with 12% APR (though KYC required)
Solv.BTC.BNB with 5-10% APR plus various airdrops:
Time to formalize these threads to be referenceable as periodicals.
BEST STABELCOIN YIELDS, ISSUE #1
March 4th, 2025
The Good News: There are quite a few new contenders.
The Bad News: The markets are catastrophically bad.
The Neutral News: Vaults are the current thing and seemingly here-to-stay, with most of the yield-related conversations at Denver circling back to vault infrastructure.
BGT Emissions Remain Strong
The BEX pools (the only incentivized pools at the moment for BGT) are still getting competitive stablecoin yields.