Best Base Yields: APY & TVL Ranking

About yield on Base

Base is an Ethereum L2 rollup launched by Coinbase in 2023 and built on the OP Stack. It has become a common deployment target for stablecoin and ETH yield strategies because of its low fees and Coinbase-routed onramps. Every row below is one of the strategies we currently track on Base, with APY and TVL read straight off the source contracts.

The cohort, in numbers

Right now we track 45 Base strategies, holding $6.8M in deposits. 24-hour APYs run from 0.00% to 6.86%. Median 2.91%, mean 2.61%. Numbers are scoped to our index, not the wider Base market.

Assets we cover on Base

USDC (22 vaults, top APY 6.86%), ETH (16 vaults, top APY 5.76%), and BTC (7 vaults, top APY 0.70%). Stablecoins dominate the count on most chains; ETH-pegged tokens and wrapped BTC fill in the rest. Open any vault to see the exact deposit token and reward stream.

Protocol families on the leaderboard

Top families: Morpho (17), ExtraFi (5), Autopilot (4), Euler (4), and Morpho Market (3). Most rows are either a single-asset money market or an autocompounder wrapping one. Each protocol publishes the same APY upstream that we surface in the table; per-vault breakdowns live on the product detail page.

Reading the APY columns

24-hour APY: today's annualised rate. 30-day APY: trailing mean across the last month. The sparkline draws the same series at small scale so a flat line reads as stable and spikes mean volatile. Past APY does not promise future APY.

Reading the TVL column

TVL is the dollar value of deposits sitting in the vault contract. The 45 vaults on this page hold $6.8M between them. Higher TVL usually means the strategy has been live longer and absorbed more capital without breaking. Lower TVL is either young, niche, or a sign the APY no longer compensates for the risk.

Risk surfaces on every Base strategy

Smart-contract risk on the vault and the protocol underneath. Oracle risk on the price feeds those contracts trust. Bridge or depeg risk on the deposit token. Governance risk on every parameter operators can change. The same protocol can carry different risks on different chains. Tiers and what we leave out, on the risk framework page.

What this page is, and what it is not

A curated Base index. Not a survey of every yield source on the chain. We add strategies as we vet and integrate them; we drop them when products retire or fall outside our framework. Inclusion criteria and ranking logic are documented on the methodology page.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best yield on Base right now?: Across the 45 strategies we currently index on Base, 6.86% is the highest 24-hour APY. The table above is sorted by APY by default and reflects the most recent build.
How is yield generated on Base?: Same mechanisms as elsewhere in DeFi: lending markets, autocompounders, liquidity provision, and reward emissions. Each strategy in our index documents its source on its product page.
What assets can I earn yield on via Base?: Strategies in our Base cohort accept USDC, ETH, BTC. Each product page lists the underlying asset and any reward tokens.
How does Base compare to other networks?: Comparisons across networks are most meaningful when controlled for asset (USDC on Base versus USDC on Ethereum, for example), because asset-specific markets dominate the rate. The asset hub pages cut the same data the other way.