DeFi Summer: The Yield Hunt Just Got Easier with Sharpe Search In DeFi, yield is everything. It's what traders chase, what funds optimize for, and what keeps power users glued to dashboards. But ironically, the more yield strategies there are, the harder it gets to find the good ones. Today, we asked Sharpe Search: "Which yield strategies are trending in DeFi?" The answer wasn’t a messy dashboard. It wasn’t a giant CSV file. It wasn’t another rabbit hole of protocols you’ve never heard of. It was this: Sharpe Search: Top Yield Narratives This Week Fixed Yield Farming Think traditional bonds, but on-chain. Protocols like Notional, Element, and Exponent now offer 4–10% stable returns. Boring? Sure. But in a market full of volatility, boring might just be brilliant. Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) ETH is still king, but now staked ETH (like stETH, rETH, sfrxETH) is being used as collateral in DeFi. So you earn staking rewards and LP/APY returns simultaneously. This is where a lot of capital is quietly compounding. Stablecoin Yield Farming Everyone’s favorite risk-off play. With Aave, Curve, and Compound, stablecoin pools are still delivering 5–15%, and without impermanent loss. Quiet yield, steady returns. Advanced Liquidity Provision For those willing to go deeper. High-yield Curve and Uniswap pools (blending blue chips with stablecoins) are clocking up to 20%. But you need to understand the risk curve, pun intended. Yield Trading & Vaults Not just farming anymore. Now users are trading yield, speculating on rates, and deploying into automated vaults with variable returns. Think Exponent and RateX. For power users only. The Old Way of Doing This Before Sharpe Search, yield research was a manual grind. - You’d check 4 dashboards. - Compare 10+ protocols. - Cross-check token risks. - Build your own spreadsheet to track APYs across pools and strategies. - Hope the farm doesn’t rug. There’s a reason why most yield threads on twitter are outdated or only focus on one protocol: the research cost is too high. Most users never even see the full picture. What This Means for You If you’re a yield farmer, you now have a starting point that’s contextual, not just numerical. If you’re a fund or allocator, Sharpe helps you identify new primitives like fixed yield farming before the rest of the market catches on. If you’re a builder, seeing how capital flows into structured products or staking derivatives can shape what you launch next. Sharpe compresses the complexity of DeFi yield into a single, simple question. And that’s the unlock. gsharpe.