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Methodology

How Yield.ly reaches an answer instead of asking you to trust a black box.

Last updated 2026-08-25

  • Overview
  • Data
  • Qualification
  • Observed risk

What Yield.ly does

Yield.ly is a free, accountless crypto yield intelligence dashboard. It compares qualified opportunities by return composition, liquidity, freshness, and observed risk so you can research destinations without connecting a wallet.

How an opportunity reaches the dashboard

  1. 1

    Upstream source

    DefiLlama, Bitcompare, enrichment, and evidence providers

  2. 2

    Validation

  3. 3

    Canonical identity

  4. 4

    Historical observations

  5. 5

    Qualification

  6. 6

    Observed-risk evidence

  7. 7

    Accepted generation

  8. 8

    Yield.ly discovery

    Dashboard, detail views, and research pages

How yield is measured

Yield.ly shows total APY with separate base and reward components when the source supports that distinction. APR is labeled explicitly when provided. Unknown conventions are not silently converted. See definitions for APY, base APY, and reward APY.

How qualification works

Qualification controls default discovery visibility. Opportunities must pass identity, lineage, freshness, liquidity, history, and related checks. Qualification methodology

Qualified does not mean safe, recommended, guaranteed, or suitable for a particular user.

How observed risk works

Observed risk summarizes evidence across multiple dimensions. It is not a safety rating. Observed risk methodology

How freshness is handled

A page rendered five minutes ago does not mean the underlying source observation is five minutes old.

When an upstream provider fails, Yield.ly preserves the latest accepted valid dataset rather than replacing values with zeros or unverified data.

Data methodology

Commercial independence

Sponsors cannot purchase qualification, risk treatment, APY, TVL, organic ranking, or chart position.

Affiliate relationships do not change qualification, observed risk, APY, TVL, or organic ranking.

Commercial independence policy

Methodology versions

AreaVersion
Qualificationqualification@1.0.0
Observed riskrisk@1.0.0
Data pipelinemethodology@0.7.0
Freshness policyfreshness@v1

Known limitations

  • Yield.ly does not cover every yield product in existence.
  • Provider APY may include temporary incentives.
  • Risk evidence reflects available documentation, not exhaustive audits.
  • Destination URLs require separate verification before outbound links activate.

Changelog

  • Aug 2026: Initial public methodology pages published.

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