Crypto Yield Strategies
Ways to make crypto 'work for you' — staking, lending, LP, yield farming.
Crypto yield strategies enable generating passive income from cryptocurrencies — from conservative staking to complex yield farming.
Risk and return hierarchy:
1. Centralized staking (low risk, 3-8%) • Binance Earn, OKX Earn • Binance Flexible USDT ~5% APY • Risk: exchange insolvency
2. Native PoS staking (low-medium risk, 4-15%) • ETH staking: ~4% APY • SOL staking: ~7% APY • ATOM staking: ~15% APY • Risk: slashing, validator downtime
3. Liquid staking (low-medium, 4-8%) • Lido stETH, Rocket Pool rETH • Retains liquidity • Risk: smart contract + depeg
4. Lending (medium risk, 3-12%) • AAVE, Compound — supply USDC/ETH • Interest rate varies with demand • Risk: smart contract, utilization rate
5. LP (Liquidity Providing) (medium-high, 10-50%+) • Uniswap v3, Curve • Fee income + yield farming • Risk: Impermanent Loss + smart contract
6. Yield farming (high risk, 50-1000%+) • New protocols, high APY • Inflationary tokens, short-lived yield • Risk: rugpull, exploit, IL, tokenomics
Golden rule: