Onchain Yield

Ethereum

2026-09-29 20:30:17

PistachioFi founders to join Ethereum Builders Live on self-custodial yield access

The Ethereum Foundation account @ethereumfndn said it will host an online "Ethereum Builders Live" event at 24:00 Beijing time on Sept. 30. The session will feature PistachioFi founders @jchaskin22 and @bsmokes. According to the announcement cited by Techub News, the discussion will center on how Pistachio is trying to reduce the complexity of self-custodial, onchain yield strategies. The topics listed for the event include a simplified onboarding flow, a curated selection of DeFi vaults, and support for gasless transactions. The event notice did not provide additional details beyond the scheduled time, the guest lineup, and the subjects to be discussed.

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Spark

2026-09-11 14:50:50

Spark opens its USDT savings vault to OKX users through X Layer

Spark has opened its USDT savings vault to OKX users, allowing eligible customers to earn onchain yield on stablecoin balances from inside the OKX app without setting up a wallet or bridging funds themselves. Under the arrangement, OKX aggregates customer deposits and routes them into Spark Savings USDT on X Layer, OKX’s Ethereum Layer 2, while the funds enter the same vault contract used by other X Layer participants rather than a separate exchange-only pool. The vault currently pays 3.5%, according to the rate stored in the contract, while Spark said its total USDT savings stood at about $361 million, with nearly all of that on Ethereum. Governance previously set the X Layer vault’s supply cap at 750 million USDT and its maximum yield at 6%. Spark also disclosed how losses would be absorbed inside the Sky ecosystem and pointed to risk controls tied to X Layer, including a $5 million outbound transaction limit and a 100% capital requirement ratio for the chain buffer until further review. The product is available to eligible OKX users outside the European Union and, according to Spark, excludes countries in the European Economic Area and other jurisdictions restricted by OKX.

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Coinbase

2026-09-09 14:26:40

Brazil users can use USDC for onchain yield through the Coinbase app

Brazil-based users can now put USD Coin (USDC) to work for onchain yield directly inside the Coinbase app, according to a monitoring update cited by Odaily. The brief item did not include additional details on how the product is structured, what yield rate may apply, or when the feature first went live. The update only states that the capability is now available to users in Brazil through Coinbase’s application. Odaily published the item as a 7x24 newsflash on Sept. 9, 2026.

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Grvt

2026-08-06 07:34:05

Grvt bets on ZKsync to pair perpetuals with yield-bearing assets for retail users

Grvt is building a different kind of onchain exchange on ZKsync. Rather than chasing trading volume alone, the platform is combining perpetual futures with yield-bearing collateral, tokenized stocks, credit products, and treasury-linked instruments in an effort to give retail users a single venue for trading and wealth storage. The article, written by Joel John and Vaidik Mandloi and translated by TechFlow, places Grvt in a broader shift in market structure: exchange commissions have been driven toward zero over time, pushing platforms to look beyond fees and toward interest income, float economics, and product distribution. Against that backdrop, Grvt is presented as an experiment in rebuilding broker and bank functions with tokenized assets. The piece says Grvt processes a little over $1 billion in daily trading volume, has about $46 million in TVL, and roughly $348 million in open interest. It also notes that the company had nearly 90,000 users at the time of writing and had raised about $33.3 million across all rounds, including a $19 million Series A led by ZKsync in September 2025. More broadly, the article argues that crypto’s next battleground may shift from raw infrastructure to distribution, retention, and products that let users earn yield, keep liquidity, and trade without giving up self-custody.

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Morph

2026-07-31 07:16:48

Morph partners with Gauntlet and Morpho to bring onchain yield strategies to Bitget users

Morph said it has entered a partnership with yield strategy platform Gauntlet and onchain lending protocol Morpho to offer institutional-grade onchain yield strategies to users of Bitget and Bitget Wallet. The company said the tie-up expands Morph’s use cases as Web3 payment and settlement infrastructure and helps bring institutional onchain financial services to a broader user base. Through Morph’s underlying infrastructure, users can directly access the Morpho Aera Vault deployed on Morph without going through complicated onchain steps. According to the announcement, users will be able to deposit USDC or bgBTC, short for Bitget Wrapped Bitcoin, through Bitget and Bitget Wallet to participate in the strategies. Morph said the estimated annualized yield is about 18% for USDC and about 3% for bgBTC. The bgBTC yield strategy is scheduled to go live on Bitget Exchange on July 31, while the USDC yield strategy is set to launch on Bitget Wallet on Aug. 3.

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LienFi

2026-07-29 07:48:38

LienFi appoints Clanker co-founder Jack Dishman as CTO

Real estate-backed onchain yield trading platform LienFi has named Jack Dishman as its chief technology officer, assigning him to lead development of the technical layer across the company’s ecosystem. Dishman previously co-founded Clanker, a token issuance platform in the Base ecosystem, and said in May this year that he would be leaving Clanker. The appointment was announced by LienFi through its official channel. The company described Dishman’s role as focused on technology development tied to the broader LienFi ecosystem.

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Kraken

2026-07-15 16:20:09

Kraken teams up with Upshift on customized crypto vaults for institutional yield

Kraken Institutional said on July 16 that it has partnered with onchain yield platform Upshift to let eligible institutional clients earn yield on idle Bitcoin, Ether, stablecoins and other crypto assets within Kraken’s compliant custody framework. The structure differs from traditional pooled vaults. Instead of combining client assets in a shared vehicle, Upshift will build a dedicated vault for each client. Each vault is tailored to that client’s investment strategy, risk parameters, liquidity needs and asset mix. According to the announcement, assets will be allocated to these non-custodial vaults and then deployed into selected onchain contracts. A receipt token will be delivered to the client’s segregated Kraken custody account.

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Pharos Networ

2026-07-14 10:52:40

Pharos launches Axil Prime Credit Vault with 14.3% target APY and $100 million cap

Pharos Network has introduced Axil Prime Credit Vault, or APC, an onchain private credit vault built to give a broader base of depositors access to an asset class that has typically been reserved for large funds, family offices, and institutional trading desks. The vault carries a target APY of about 14.3% and a total fundraising cap of $100 million in USDC. Distribution is set to run through OKX Wallet, Binance Wallet, TopNod, and Kucoin Wallet. According to Pharos, APC is fully managed by Axil and deployed through the R25 protocol on the Pharos network. Yield is designed to come from two components: the underlying private credit portfolio and ecosystem incentives paid in $PROS plus USDC. The project says this structure ties returns to real-world consumer credit cash flows rather than token inflation or speculative trading activity. The vault is scheduled to open to the public on July 15. Depositors can subscribe using Circle-supported native USDC on Pharos or bridged USDC from Ethereum. Pharos said earlier participation allows users to accumulate more yield days before the formal lock-up period begins. The company also pointed to its earlier pAlpha vault, saying it completed its lifecycle without security incidents.

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