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Every platform page has a report link. Verified errors are fixed within 24 hours and noted in the changelog. Platforms may submit corrections with sources — they cannot pay for placement, grades or removals.
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We make money on affiliate commissions from the platforms we link to. When you sign up through our link, the exchange pays us a cut. The price doesn't change for you — it's standard marketing spend. Affiliate links are clearly labeled.
Ranking is based on risk/yield balance, NOT on whether we have an affiliate link. Platforms we have no agreement with also appear in results. If a non-affiliate platform has a better rate and risk profile, we show it first — even though we earn nothing from it.
We evaluate every platform on 5 objective criteria: Regulation (licensed?), Proof-of-Reserves (publishes reserves?), Flexible Withdrawal (no forced lock period?), Insurance Fund (has insurance?), Track Record (2+ years without incidents?). Each criterion is a binary yes/no with public reasoning and a source link. 5/5 → 🟢 Low risk. 3–4/5 → 🟡 Medium. 0–2/5 → 🔴 High.
Data is partially collected automatically via exchange public APIs where available; the rest is verified by hand. Every platform is refreshed daily, and the last-updated date is shown next to every rate.
See the Terms for details. Short version: we don't work with residents of the US, UK, Germany, Russia, and mainland China. Our partner exchanges require this — without it we'd lose our main revenue source.
What counts as an "incident" for Track Record: withdrawal halt > 1 hour, bankruptcy, hack with loss of user funds, regulator freeze, delisting of a key product without > 24h notice, proven manipulation of reports. These criteria are public and applied uniformly to all platforms. If you think we're wrong about a specific platform — write to us.
The A–F grade, decoded
One point for each check a platform passes — five public, verifiable criteria. Here's every check, and what each letter means for your money.
A verifiable license from a recognized regulator (VARA, FCA, MiCA CASP, FinCEN MSB), checked in the official register — not the press release.
Regular public attestations that customer assets exist 1:1, with a link to the latest report.
You can exit the base flexible product any time — no forced lockups on the flexible tier.
A dedicated protection fund or insurance policy covering user assets, with a public size.
At least two years with no hacks, freezes or bail-ins. Incidents are listed with dates and sources.
Safest tier. Passes every check — where boring money belongs.
Solid. One check failed — read which one on the platform page.
Medium. Fine for active use; think twice before parking savings.
Risky. High rates here are compensation for risk, not generosity.
Avoid for meaningful amounts. Listed for transparency only.
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Every number is public and verifiable — from exchange APIs where available, otherwise checked by hand against each platform's official pages. No hidden affiliate feeds.
| Source | What | Endpoint | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeFiLlama Yields | DeFi pools | https://yields.llama.fi/pools | daily |
| DeFiLlama lendBorrow | DeFi borrow markets | https://yields.llama.fi/lendBorrow | daily |
| Bybit Earn API | Bybit yield products | https://api.bybit.com | daily |
| OKX Savings API | OKX yield products | https://www.okx.com/api/v5/finance/savings/lending-rate-summary | daily |
| CoinGecko Markets | Asset prices, market data | https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/markets | daily |
| CoinGecko Chart | Asset price history | https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/{id}/market_chart | daily |
Sum of binary criteria passed: license, Proof-of-Reserves, flexible withdrawal, insurance fund, track record.
score = regulation + reserves + flexible
+ insurance + track_record // 0..5
grade = {5:A, 4:B, 3:C, 2:D, else:F} A 0–100 stability score from public DeFiLlama data: TVL (30 pts), how close current APY sits to its 30-day mean + ML outlook (25), no IL risk (20), low share of yield from token rewards (15), stablecoin pool (10). A ≥80, B ≥65, C ≥50, D ≥35, F <35. This is NOT a smart-contract safety score — we have no audit, protocol-age or hack-history data.
score = TVL(0-30) + APY_stability(0-25)
+ no_IL(0-20) + real_yield(0-15)
+ stablecoin(0-10) Exchanges often publish APR (simple annual rate) but display APY (with compounding). We use whatever the exchange itself shows in its Earn section — if APR, we compound monthly to APY.
APY = (1 + APR/n)^n − 1 // n = compounding periods per year
For PoS assets: nominal APY minus network inflation. High nominal APY on an inflationary chain is partly dilution.
real = (1 + nominal) / (1 + inflation) − 1 // nominal from chain, inflation from issuance
In DeFi lending, part of the borrow cost is offset by rewards in protocol tokens. We show the net cost.
net = base_borrow_apr − token_rewards_apr