Questions from
risk-aware operators

YieldLens is a DeFi yield intelligence platform. It helps crypto owners, traders, miners, and treasury teams find yield pools that match their holdings and risk tolerance. It scores opportunities using a quality metric called Lens Score — which factors in TVL stability, audit coverage, liquidity depth, and sanctions exposure — and ranks them against your stated goal.

It is a decision-support tool, not an execution platform. See all features →

No. YieldLens is purely a read and intelligence layer. It surfaces recommendations and explains why each opportunity ranks where it does. It never submits transactions, requests private keys, approves contracts, or moves funds at any point. All execution stays in your own wallet or custody solution.

YieldLens was built for operators who take yield allocation seriously:

• Active traders looking for the best risk-adjusted return across ETH, BTC, or stablecoin positions
• Bitcoin miners managing treasury yield on BTC and stablecoin reserves
• DAO treasuries allocating across protocols under governance-defined risk policies
• Builders and quants integrating yield intelligence into internal tools and dashboards via the API

The Advisor interface works without an API key — it runs demo results and gives you a feel for the ranking and scoring output. For personalized wallet-aware recommendations, real-time pool data, and higher request volumes you'll want a free API key, which requires no payment details.

Yes. Wallet address submission is a read-only on-chain lookup. YieldLens reads your public token balances to perform matching — the same information visible to anyone on a block explorer. No private key, seed phrase, or signing request is ever involved. If you prefer not to share an address at all, token matching provides equivalent results.

Wallet addresses submitted for matching are used to perform the live lookup and are not retained or linked to your account beyond the duration of the request. YieldLens does not build a transaction history or behavioral profile tied to your address.

During pool ingest, YieldLens checks contract addresses and associated counterparties against sanctions lists. Pools with flagged exposure receive a lower Lens Score and are surfaced with a warning flag. This does not constitute compliance advice — users are responsible for their own compliance obligations.

Lens Score is a normalized 0–100 quality/risk metric computed on every ingest cycle. It combines:

• TVL stability — 7-day trend and drawdown depth
• Audit coverage — number of audits, audit age, and auditor reputation
• Liquidity depth — pool size relative to typical position sizes
• APY sustainability — organic fee returns vs. token-incentive inflation
• Sanctions exposure — flagged contract or counterparty associations

A pool with a headline APY of 40% but an inflated incentive structure and thin liquidity will score lower than a 7% pool with years of audited history and deep TVL. Learn more about features →

Data is ingested and rescored on a continuous cycle with a target refresh window under 5 minutes. The GET /v1/pipeline endpoint exposes the last successful ingest timestamp and scoring status so production integrations can validate data freshness before acting on it.

YieldLens currently indexes 47+ protocols across 12 chains:

Chains: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Gnosis, Scroll, zkSync, and others.

Protocols include: Aave, Compound, Morpho, Spark, Curve, Convex, Lido, Rocket Pool, Uniswap, Balancer, Yearn, Beefy, Pendle, Ethena, Euler, Silo, and more. Coverage expands as protocols reach TVL and audit thresholds.

High APYs are often driven by token incentive emissions rather than organic protocol fees. These are unsustainable and typically unwind when incentive programs end. A low Lens Score on a high-APY pool is a signal to investigate the source of that return before allocating.

API keys are created via the Admin Console and attached to a billing tier (Free, Trader, Pro, or DAO). The key is sent as the X-API-Key header on every request. Pro and DAO tiers support multiple keys per account — useful for separating staging and production environments.

Yes, the Free tier is permanently free with no credit card required. It includes pool discovery, Lens scoring, wallet and token matching, goal-based ranking, and core API access at basic rate limits. Upgrade when your usage or operational requirements grow. See full plan comparison →

Yes. The entire YieldLens feature set is available via REST API. Pool discovery, wallet matching, token matching, scoring, and alerts all have dedicated endpoints. Pro and DAO tiers also expose pipeline health endpoints for production monitoring. The Trader tier and above includes higher request throughput suitable for recurring analysis jobs.

Exact pricing will be published when Stripe billing plans are finalized at launch. The Free tier is available now. Visit the pricing page for the latest information.