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The Year of Yield: 2025 In Review

The Year of Yield: 2025 In Review

2025 was a breakout year for onchain yield infrastructure: real innovation, continued adoption, and earn experiences reaching millions of users globally. At Yield.xyz, we were right in the middle of that shift, pushing the space toward three things that matter most: scale, security, and radically simpler access to Web3 yields. 

"In 2025, we showed what's possible when yield infrastructure becomes invisible: powerful enough to handle billions in volume, simple enough that millions of users never see the complexity. We're taking that momentum into 2026 by building even more robust infrastructure that makes yield access universal."

— Serafin Lion Engel, Founder & CEO of Yield.xyz

2025 at a Glance

In 2025, Yield.xyz expanded support for yield opportunities across 75+ networks, achieved 100% uptime, and marked over 25x year-over-year growth:

Major Product Launches

1. API 2.0: The Complete Infrastructure Redesign (July 2025)

July marked our most significant technical milestone with the launch of API 2.0, a ground-up rebuild of how platforms discover, integrate, and execute yield strategies. This update reduced integration timelines from months to hours.

2. Optimized Allocator Vaults (OAVs): Making DeFi Simple (August 2025)

In August, we introduced Optimized Allocator Vaults (OAVs) to solve DeFi's complexity problem. OAVs collapse multi-step yield processes into single-deposit actions, handling auto-compounding, reward harvesting, and fee taking for integrations such as protocols like Morpho, Aave, and Spark.

Key Success Stories:

“Our main mission at Deblock is to bridge TradFi with Crypto, and today we are taking a huge leap towards accomplishing this mission. Using DeFi protocols from reputable partners such as Morpho and Yield.xyz, we’re giving our customers the opportunity to put their idle cash to work with yield rates up to 6% a year.” 

— Deblock Team

3. Shield: Zero-Trust Transaction Security (October 2025)

October saw the introduction of Shield, a zero-trust transaction validation library designed to eliminate the risks associated with malicious or misconfigured transactions. Shield validates every unsigned transaction for structural correctness and provides cryptographic verification at every step, creating complete audit trails for compliance.

By enforcing strict pre-execution validation, Shield materially reduces the classes of transaction-level failures that have led to high-profile infrastructure and validator incidents across the industry, preventing malformed or unauthorized transactions from ever reaching execution.

4. Liquidity Provision Yield Support (November 2025)

In November, Yield.xyz expanded its API to support dual-sided liquidity provision yields for the first time. This update enables builders to surface LP opportunities that require supplying both sides of a pool, starting with integrations on Curve and PancakeSwap. For concentrated LP positions on PancakeSwap, custom price ranges, fee tier selection, and balanced positioning modes are supported out-of-the-box. Curve stable pools were also added to the API, enabling yield sourced from multi-asset pools using single LP token mechanics.

Additional pool coverage and protocol expansions are planned for Q1, further broadening access to liquidity provision strategies across networks.

Powering the Ecosystem: Platform Integrations

Throughout 2025, Yield.xyz powered the yield infrastructure for leading platforms across the entire digital asset landscape. From consumer wallets serving millions to institutional trading platforms and AI-powered autonomous systems, our API enabled seamless access to thousands of yield opportunities across 75+ networks.

Wallets & Consumer Platforms

Consumer wallets chose Yield.xyz to bring institutional-grade yield access directly to everyday users. By abstracting the complexity of staking, DeFi protocols, and multi-chain operations, these platforms transformed how millions of users earn on their digital assets—securely and simply.

"TRON and Yield.xyz integrating TRX staking in Ledger Live demonstrates the desire across the industry to provide users with secure, accessible opportunities across leading blockchain networks. Through Yield.xyz’s API infrastructure, combined with Ledger Live, they can reach a unique category of users that value Ledger’s uncompromising security and commitment to self-custody.”

 — Jean-Francois Rochet, EVP of Consumer Services at Ledger

Institutional Platforms

Institutional platforms integrated Yield.xyz to give professional traders and fund managers unified access to stablecoin yields and DeFi strategies, backed by the compliance, security, and operational infrastructure they require.

“We’re excited to partner with Yield.xyz to bring comprehensive onchain staking capabilities to our institutional clients. This integration enables our clients to access the full spectrum of yield opportunities across multiple blockchain networks while maintaining the security, compliance, and operational efficiency they require. Yield.xyz’s proven infrastructure and extensive validator network perfectly complement our mission to simplify digital asset operations.”

–– Bentzi Rabi, Co-founder & CEO of Utila

Developer Infrastructure

Developer platforms chose Yield.xyz to give their users embedded yield capabilities with policy-based security, self-custody, and zero integration overhead. These integrations enabled developers to focus on building great products while we handled the complexity of multi-chain yield access.

"Integrating Yield.xyz enables our developers to offer secure, self-custodial yield access without taking on additional operational or smart-contract overhead. It reflects our commitment to giving builders more control over how they manage keys and execute onchain actions," 

–– Bryce Ferguson, CEO of Turnkey

AI Agents & Autonomous Systems

As AI agents emerged as a new category of onchain actors, Yield.xyz provided the infrastructure for autonomous systems to discover, evaluate, and execute yield strategies programmatically—opening the door to the next generation of intelligent yield optimization.

Network Expansion: 75+ Chains

In 2025, Yield.xyz became the go-to infrastructure for day-one network support. When major networks launched their mainnets, we were ready from block zero—enabling platforms to offer yield opportunities to their users immediately, without waiting months for integrations. This commitment to being first positioned Yield.xyz as essential infrastructure for both new networks and the platforms building on them.

Major Network Launches

Critical Protocol Migrations

Protocol & Yield Integrations

In Q4 alone, we added over 1,000+ new yield opportunities.

This integration represents an important step forward in expanding the reach of Spark’s yield infrastructure. By working with Yield.xyz, we’re enabling more platforms to offer their users a transparent, sustainable source of stablecoin yield that’s native to Ethereum.

–– Sam MacPherson, Co-founder of Spark. 

Looking Ahead: 2026

By the end of 2025, onchain yield became a baseline expectation rather than a differentiator. Platforms now compete on reliability, security, and simplicity at scale, and Yield.xyz has positioned itself as the infrastructure layer enabling that shift. This year showed that yield access can be global and operationally invisible, with thousands of opportunities supported across dozens of networks and zero downtime through major protocol migrations.

Looking ahead, yield will increasingly be embedded by default inside wallets, fintech products, institutional platforms, and autonomous systems. In 2026, our focus remains on broader coverage, deeper liquidity support, stronger security guarantees, and simpler integrations that make high-quality onchain yield universally accessible.

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