Weekly Blue Pill | Week 10, 2026
Overview
Welcome to The Blue Pill - Week 10, 2026. A weekly update covering what's been happening across the Yearn ecosystem.
This newsletter is meant to be a simple summary of recent activity: governance discussions, vault performance, a few protocol-level metrics, and once in a while some alpha we can share. We hope you'll find it useful!
Time seems to be moving faster than ever, but work at Yearn continues steadily. Our agenda for today:
- Yearn at a glance - high-level protocol metrics, including TVL and week-over-week changes
- Vaults - top yields across chains
- yCRV - this week's fees and week-over-week changes
- yYB - this week's fees and week-over-week changes
- Alpha Corner - features and strategies in development
Yearn at a glance
Yearn TVL increased week-over-week by ~2%, from $327.5M (166,370 ETH) to $333.3M (163,031 ETH).
Total DeFi TVL increased week-over-week by ~4%, from $93.41B (45.69M ETH) to $97.51B (47.70M ETH),
with Yearn's share at 0.34%.
Vaults
Top Stablecoin Vaults:
- AUSD yVault (katana): 12.39% APR | $3.2M TVL
- vbUSDC yVault (katana): 7.00% APR | $47.7M TVL
- vbUSDT yVault (katana): 5.06% APR | $13.4M TVL
- USDS-1 yVault (mainnet): 4.34% APR | $5.9M TVL
- USDC-A yVault (arbitrum): 4.04% APR | $24.2K TVL
Top Crypto Vaults:
- yYB yVault (mainnet): 353.75% APR | $387.7K TVL
- SKY-1 yVault (mainnet): 9.65% APR | $59.6K TVL
- vbETH yVault (katana): 4.89% APR | $27.2M TVL
- WETH-2 yVault (mainnet): 1.91% APR | $1.6M TVL
- WETH-1 yVault (mainnet): 1.80% APR | $22.2M TVL
yCRV
This week yCRV stakers received 49,071.86 crvUSD rewards, compared to 37,098.14 crvUSD in the prior week, for a week-over-week change of +32.3%
yYB
This week yYB stakers received 13,178.71 crvUSD rewards, compared to 14,703.80 crvUSD in the prior week, for a week-over-week change of -10.4%
Alpha Corner
No Alpha today. Come back next week!
Disclaimer
All data presented in this newsletter is based on publicly available sources and onchain information at the time of generation. The scripts used to collect and generate this data are open source and available here.
Until next time, peace!