Qualification methodology

What qualification means

Qualified means the opportunity meets Yield.ly data, liquidity, freshness, and transparency requirements. It is not a safety guarantee or financial recommendation.

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

Qualification states

Qualified

Meets current default-discovery requirements for liquidity, freshness, identity, lineage, and related checks.

Searchable only

Available for broader research but does not meet all default requirements such as TVL, history, or reward-heavy thresholds.

Temporarily hidden

Has a temporary data or integrity condition such as stale data, unverified destination, or TVL collapse requiring resolution.

Excluded

Does not satisfy publication requirements or is no longer valid.

Insufficient data

Yield.ly cannot make a reliable classification yet due to missing lineage, identity, or history.

Qualification factors

• Canonical identity and verified asset mapping
• Data lineage and observation timestamps
• Freshness state
• Liquidity (TVL) thresholds with hysteresis
• Historical coverage and observation density
• Rate anomalies, spikes, and component consistency
• Product classification and exposure type
• Destination verification for actionable links
• Duplicate and mapping conflict status
• Reward dependency and composition

Liquidity thresholds

Centralized earn products use separate custodial treatment. Hysteresis applies when TVL was previously above default threshold.

History requirements

Default discovery expects at least 30 days of observed history with minimum coverage ratio 0.5. Opportunities with 7 to 29 days may remain searchable with warnings. Below 2 days may require review.

Reward-heavy treatment

High reward dependency is not automatic exclusion. It affects context and may restrict default qualification when paired with volatility or limited history.

Rate anomaly policy

Yield.ly checks for unusual spikes, unit errors, component mismatches, and values far outside recent history. Legitimate high yield is not automatically excluded.

Illustrative example

Opportunity A: $45M TVL, 30 days history, fresh data, verified identity and destination. Result: Qualified.

Opportunity B: $80K TVL on a lending market, 2 days history. Result: Searchable only until liquidity and history thresholds are met.

Illustrative thresholds. Actual states depend on all rules.

Qualification versioning

Current qualification methodology: qualification@1.0.0. Last updated 2026-08-25.

• 2026-08-24: Initial public qualification methodology v1.0.0 published with calibrated TVL and history thresholds.

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