Commercial independence
Yield.ly may earn revenue through sponsorship, affiliate relationships, and owned-audience products. That revenue never changes organic rankings, qualification, risk labels, APY, TVL, or chart encodings.
Public invariants
- Sponsors cannot purchase ranking positions.
- Sponsors cannot change qualification status.
- Affiliate rates cannot influence rankings.
- Partner status cannot affect risk labels.
- Compensation cannot change APY or TVL.
- Sponsored modules are separate from organic results.
- Every compensated link is disclosed.
- Yield.ly may reject a partner that fails verification requirements.
- Commercial metadata never enters ranking calculations.
- Official partnerships are not endorsements of financial suitability.
Partner contract requirements
- Partner accepts commercial independence policy without modification.
- Partner provides verified official destinations on approved hosts only.
- Partner agrees to labeled sponsor placements separate from organic rankings.
- Partner accepts disclosure requirements on every compensated link.
- Partner supplies conversion reporting through approved secure channels.
- Yield.ly retains kill-switch and rejection rights for compliance failures.
What this means in practice
Sponsored modules live outside organic leaderboard rows. Exchange partner actions are labeled separately from protocol deposit actions. Every compensated link includes disclosure copy. Official partnerships are not endorsements of financial suitability.