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Risk ratings, yield strategy analysis, and institutional-grade research for the top DeFi protocols — built on a transparent on-chain methodology.
Top rated protocols.
Live rankings across DEX, lending, staking and yield. Updated continuously.
One rule, one basket.
A rules-based basket of ten DeFi tokens that return revenue to holders: a forward cash-flow sleeve and a cycle-torque sleeve, capped per name and reset every 90 days. The weights are published at each rebalance.
- Yield at views
- 10.63%
- Priced in
- 46%
- Peak mult
- 2.9x
- HYPE25.2%
- PENDLE12.2%
- AERO10.6%
- UNI9.9%
- PUMP8.3%
- JUP7.9%
Net of trading costs. Before the first published rebalance this is a backtest of its weights, log scale, 7-day average. Full method and an adjustable start date on the index page.
Open the indexSharp analysis on the risks beneath the yields.
Long-form, on-chain-grounded research that auditors and risk teams actually read.
The Pendle LimitOrder Farming Playbook
Pendle pays you PENDLE just for resting limit orders on its books — often 50%+ APY, and 100–200% in a hot market. Here's the five-level playbook, from parking one order at the reward edge to running a 24/7 market-making bot, and how to keep your orders from getting eaten.
Latest Insights
DeFi Yield Guide, November 2026: Rated Positions
The best DeFi yields for November 2026, ranked by Safety Score, not rate — with the mechanism behind each and what would break it. Revised monthly.
Inside the October 2026 DeFi Sentinel Index Rebalance: Ten Tokens, Two Sleeves, One Schedule
How the DeFi Sentinel Index chose and sized its ten tokens for the 2026-10-23 reset: forward cash flow instead of trailing payouts, estimated fee switches, a stated fee-base view per name, a top-ten cut with a watchlist, and a 90-day calendar charged 40 bps per dollar traded.
October 2026: A DeFi Yield Guide
The DeFi Sentinel yield guide as it stood this month: every position on the board with its Safety Score, the mechanism that produces the yield, and the specific thing that would break it. Figures are frozen at publication.
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The highest-rated assets, top yield strategies and freshly rated protocols, surfaced from continuous on-chain analysis.
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The DeFi Yield Guide ranks the board by Safety Score, names the mechanism behind every rate, and spells out exactly what would break it.
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