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š¢ Ethereum isnāt just programmableāit's productive.
$ETH is no longer idle capital. It can generate sustainable, onchain yield across DeFi and staking strategies.
Hereās the ULTIMATE guide to ETH yieldā10 powerful ways to put your ETH to work š§µš
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š 1. Native Staking
Secure Ethereum. Earn passive yield.
32 ETH for solo validators
Or use Lido / Rocket Pool
šø Yield: ~3ā5% APY
Liquid staking tokens (like stETH) unlock DeFi composability.
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š° 2. Lending ETH
Lend your ETH to earn interest from borrowers.
Collateralized, non-custodial, and capital-efficient.
š Yield: 1ā5% APY
š¦ Platforms: Aave, Compound, MakerDAO
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āļø 3. Collateralized Borrowing
Use ETH to borrow stablecoins (DAI, USDC), then reinvest them.
š Strategy: Loop into farming, staking, or LPs
ā ļø Risk: Liquidation from price drops
š Indirect yield: 5ā20%+ depending on deployment
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š§ 4. Liquidity Provision
Provide ETH to DEXs and earn trading fees.
Pairs: ETH/USDC, stETH/ETH, etc.
š Beware impermanent loss!
š Yield: 5ā20%+
š Platforms: Uniswap, Curve, Balancer
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š¾ 5. Yield Farming
Stake ETH or LP tokens in farms to earn protocol rewards.
Often used with governance tokens.
š Yield: 10ā100%+ (but volatile!)
š§Ŗ Platforms: Convex, Balancer, Aura, Yearn
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š 6. Restaking (ETH2.0+)
ETH secures Ethereum AND more.
Stake again to secure AVSs (middleware, oracles, etc).
šø Extra yield on top of staking
š Yield: 5ā15%+
āļø Platforms: EigenLayer, Symbiotic
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š¤ 7. Automated Vault Strategies
Set-and-forget smart vaults that optimize ETH yield.
Autocompound and rotate strategies for you.
š Yield: 5ā20%+
āļø Platforms: Yearn, Sommelier, Instadapp, Harvest
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š§® 8. ETH-backed Stablecoin Minting
Use ETH/stETH to mint stablecoins like eUSD or mkUSD.
Then earn yield by holding or farming them.
š Yield: 5ā15%+
š Platforms: Lybra, Prisma, Gravita
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š 9. Derivatives & Structured Products
ETH options, futures, and synthetic assets = extra yield.
Covered call vaults, options premiums, LP hedging.
š Variable returns
š§Ŗ Platforms: Ribbon, Opyn, Panoptic, Synthetix
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š 10. ETH Yield Stacking
You can combine these:
Stake ETH ā get stETH ā lend or LP it ā restake it ā mint stablecoins ā farm ā loop
š„ ETH becomes superfluid productive capital
Total blended yield: potentially 10ā30%+
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