DeFi Yields Hit Double Digits

- The recent surge in Mantle's TVL was a direct result of the Aave V3 integration, which attracted over $400 million in assets within its first week on the network. This rapid growth highlights how partnerships with established "blue-chip" protocols can significantly boost a Layer 2 ecosystem's liquidity and credibility. - The Soil protocol generates yield for the RLUSD stablecoin by investing in off-chain, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) such as private credit and treasury bills. This model aims to provide more stable and predictable returns compared to yields derived from volatile crypto lending and trading fees. - Ymax's "yield orchestration" platform addresses the complexity of multi-chain yield farming by automating the deployment of stablecoins across different protocols like Morpho and Aave with a single signature. The system is designed to reduce idle capital and the risks associated with manually bridging assets between networks. - Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) is an evolution of the traditional yield farming model where DeFi protocols own a portion of their own liquidity pools. This creates more stable and reliable liquidity, as it is less susceptible to the sudden withdrawal of funds by users chasing higher yields on other platforms. - The re-emergence of high, double-digit yields follows a period of significant "yield compression" in 2024-2025, where average stablecoin APRs dropped to historic lows around 5-6%. Many current yields are increasingly sourced from real fee revenues rather than the inflationary token rewards that fueled the 2020 "DeFi Summer." - The WLD token is the native cryptocurrency of the Worldcoin project, which provides users with a verified "World ID" after a biometric iris scan. Beyond its use in yield farming, WLD is intended for governance and as a reward mechanism within