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Best Yield Aggregators

Vault platforms ranked on strategy disclosure, audits and net-of-fee yield.Every score below is the weighted mean of the rubric marks, not an editor's gut feel.

How we score this category

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Strategy disclosure
Whether you can see exactly where deposits go, in what proportion, and what has to happen for the strategy to lose money.
25%
Contract security
Audit depth across vaults and strategies, exploit history, and how upgrade rights are held.
25%
Net yield
Realised return after fees and gas, compared with holding the underlying position directly.
20%
Risk controls
Deposit caps, emergency withdrawal paths, oracle handling and strategy diversification.
15%
Fees
Management and performance fees, plus any harvest or withdrawal charges.
15%
8.6
Rank 1 · Strong

Not an aggregator so much as a yield market — the only protocol here that lets you lock a fixed rate on a variable-yield asset.

Strategy disclosure
9.0
Contract security
8.5
Net yield
8.5
Risk controls
8.0
Fees
8.5
~3% of yield plus swap feesSince 2021Read full review →
8.5
Rank 2 · Strong

Does one thing — boost Curve rewards — and has done it without an incident for four years.

Strategy disclosure
9.0
Contract security
9.0
Net yield
8.5
Risk controls
8.0
Fees
7.0
~17% of rewardsSince 2021Read full review →
8.4
Rank 3 · Strong

Vaults where a named curator sets the risk parameters and takes public responsibility for them.

Strategy disclosure
9.0
Contract security
8.5
Net yield
8.0
Risk controls
8.0
Fees
8.0
Performance fee set by each curatorSince 2021Read full review →
8.1
Rank 4 · Strong

The best-executed vault platform on Solana, combining automated concentrated liquidity with a lending market that actually works.

Strategy disclosure
8.0
Contract security
8.0
Net yield
8.5
Risk controls
8.0
Fees
8.0
Performance fee varies by vaultSince 2022Read full review →
8.0
Rank 5 · Strong

Cheap, broad and durable: hundreds of vaults across twenty-odd chains, with a fee that barely registers.

Strategy disclosure
8.0
Contract security
7.5
Net yield
8.0
Risk controls
7.5
Fees
9.0
~4.5% of harvested yieldSince 2020Read full review →
8.0
Rank 6 · Strong

The most rigorous risk framework in the category: managers can only do what the vault policy permits, enforced by contract.

Strategy disclosure
8.5
Contract security
8.5
Net yield
6.5
Risk controls
9.0
Fees
7.0
Set by each vault managerSince 2017Read full review →
8.0
Rank 7 · Strong

The original yield aggregator, still the most transparent about what its vaults hold and what could go wrong with them.

Strategy disclosure
9.0
Contract security
8.0
Net yield
7.5
Risk controls
8.5
Fees
6.5
Typically 2% management, 10–20% performanceSince 2020Read full review →
7.8
Rank 8 · Solid

Convex's model applied to Balancer, executed well, and exposed to Balancer's rougher security record.

Strategy disclosure
8.5
Contract security
8.0
Net yield
8.0
Risk controls
7.5
Fees
6.5
~19–25% of rewardsSince 2022Read full review →
7.6
Rank 9 · Solid

Senior and junior tranches let you choose whether you are the one absorbing losses — a rare piece of real financial structuring in DeFi.

Strategy disclosure
8.0
Contract security
7.5
Net yield
7.0
Risk controls
8.0
Fees
7.5
~10–15% performance feeSince 2019Read full review →
7.5
Rank 10 · Solid

Composable leverage for yield strategies, with credit accounts that keep the risk in a box — until the box is the thing that breaks.

Strategy disclosure
8.0
Contract security
7.5
Net yield
7.0
Risk controls
7.0
Fees
7.5
Interest on borrowed leverageSince 2021Read full review →
7.4
Rank 11 · Solid

Yield that accrues in your wallet balance without any action, from a team that was exploited badly in 2020 and repaid everyone.

Strategy disclosure
8.0
Contract security
6.5
Net yield
7.5
Risk controls
7.5
Fees
7.5
~10–20% performance feeSince 2017Read full review →
6.8
Rank 12 · Mixed

One of the cheapest compounders anywhere, farming ecosystems that have mostly moved on.

Strategy disclosure
6.5
Contract security
6.5
Net yield
6.5
Risk controls
6.0
Fees
9.0
~3% of harvestsSince 2020Read full review →
6.8
Rank 13 · Mixed

Strategies computed on a Cosmos chain and executed on Ethereum — powerful, and a governance layer between you and your funds.

Strategy disclosure
6.5
Contract security
7.0
Net yield
6.5
Risk controls
7.0
Fees
7.0
~1–2% management plus 10% performanceSince 2021Read full review →
6.5
Rank 14 · Mixed

Straightforward pools with a straightforward fee, and a 2022 exploit that took a few million out of one of them.

Strategy disclosure
7.0
Contract security
6.0
Net yield
6.5
Risk controls
6.5
Fees
6.5
~2% management, 15% performanceSince 2021Read full review →
5.9
Rank 15 · Weak

Survived a $24m flash-loan attack in 2020 and never quite recovered the trust, or justified the fee.

Strategy disclosure
7.0
Contract security
5.0
Net yield
6.0
Risk controls
6.0
Fees
5.0
~30% performance feeSince 2020Read full review →

How OBOL rates yield aggregators

An aggregator is a manager: it takes your deposit, allocates it to strategies you did not choose, and charges a fee. So the first question is not what it yields but what it is doing, and whether you could find out. Vaults whose strategy is a paragraph of marketing rather than a list of positions score badly here regardless of returns.

Contract security carries equal weight, because aggregators inherit every risk of every protocol they touch. A vault farming three lending markets and a DEX carries four sets of contract risk plus its own — a fact that headline APYs never mention.

Net yield is the only yield that matters

We score realised return after management fees, performance fees, harvest gas and withdrawal charges, against the simple alternative of holding the underlying position yourself. Plenty of vaults fail that comparison, especially at small deposit sizes where fixed gas costs eat the compounding advantage.

Where a strategy actually loses money

Aggregator losses rarely come from a headline exploit. They come from a strategy quietly holding a depegging asset, a leveraged loop unwinding, or emissions being farmed into an illiquid token that cannot be sold. We look for deposit caps, emergency exits and honest documentation of exactly these failure modes.

FAQ

Is auto-compounding worth the fee?
At larger deposit sizes on expensive chains, usually yes — the vault socialises the gas cost of harvesting. On cheap chains or with small balances, the fee often exceeds the benefit.
Why do advertised APYs differ so much from what I earn?
Because displayed rates are typically annualised from a recent window, before fees, and often include token emissions valued at the moment of harvest. Realised return after selling those tokens is usually lower.
Are audited vaults safe?
Audits reduce risk; they do not remove it. Several protocols in this list were audited before being exploited. Treat an audit as evidence of diligence, not a guarantee.