Yield Strategies

Four ways to earn yield on USDC in 2026, from 3.8% at near-zero risk to 15%+ if you're comfortable with LP mechanics. Here's the honest comparison.

A step-by-step playbook for deploying $10K across staking, lending, and LP positions. Includes specific protocols, expected APY, and the order of operations.

Stable LP pools advertise higher APY than lending — but one bad weekend can wipe out a year of swap fees. Here's the decision tree the PassiveBlocks bot uses, with the 2023 USDC depeg costed in dollars.

Every DeFi newsletter tells you to chase the higher yield. Most weeks, the right call is to do nothing. Here's the 3% buffer rule the PassiveBlocks bot lives by — and the math that proves chasing kills yield on small portfolios.