Any legit short-term USDT yield opportunities left?

[Daisycrypt202]

I swear, finding legit short-term yield in this market is starting to feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Everything either locks your funds for months, pays out in some token that dumps before you can even claim, or worse turns out to be another scam with fancy APR numbers.

I’ve been searching for something that actually makes sense, Not another DeFi farm that requires five swaps and a PhD in tokenomics, not some staking pool that locks you in forever. just simple, high-yield USDT plays that don’t have ridiculous terms.

Then I saw 600% APR on USDT for 3 days today. First reaction? WTF. Either it’s the wildest onboarding deal ever, or there’s a hidden catch I haven’t spotted yet. No crazy commitments, no weird mechanics just high yield, short-term.

Now, I’m not trying to get rugged, but with BTC & SOL flying and the market moving crazy, I kinda feel like stacking extra USDT short-term isn’t the worst move. Question is, is there anything else out there worth looking at?

I’m open to ideas DeFi, CEX, vaults, whatever. Just looking for real short-term high-yield plays that actually pay. If anyone’s found something better (or if you’ve tried these types of deals before), drop some knowledge.

[Mia Chloe]

I swear, finding legit short-term yield in this market is starting to feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Everything either locks your funds for months, pays out in some token that dumps before you can even claim, or worse turns out to be another scam with fancy APR numbers.

One thing you need to understand is actually the fact that the crypto space is full of more junks than the real deal. There are so many unverified projects out there some can even be scam projects but without proper understanding and research you may find it difficult to spot them.

Even the DeFi space isn't left out when it actually comes to this. There are many altcoins out there but currently the question is would they hold up?

[TryNinja]

I miss the good ol' days of 3 digits APR for stables, now that's really rare.

What I've been doing to park my USDC is leave them on Hyperliquid's HLP vault, which currently sits at a shy 11% APR with some spikes to 20% when some crazy trading happens (i.e last time a coin had a big wave of liquidations, I got an extra 10% APR in a day). Yes, that's almost nothing compared to the 300% APR, but the other option is just leaving this money getting dust on my wallet.

Also, better to get 10% on a safer protocol then to risk everything for 50% APR or more. I know that because I've been rugged a couple of times.

[LogitechMouse]

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Then I saw 600% APR on USDT for 3 days today. First reaction? WTF. Either it’s the wildest onboarding deal ever, or there’s a hidden catch I haven’t spotted yet. No crazy commitments, no weird mechanics just high yield, short-term.

Just for context, that isn't huge enough for me to say WTF!!! when I see it (gladly I didn't)

A 600% APR on 3 days converts to around 1.6438% per day only so for 3 days, what will you get is 4.9315% of the total USDT that you invested. Kind of huge still knowing that it's only for 3 days compared to those who are giving around 10% or even more APR on stablecoins, but still not huge enough for me to get attracted. In general, those kind of APRs right now especially in DeFi are pretty much rare already. For sure, that kind of APR isn't sustainable and over the weeks and months, that will surely decline as more and more money are being deposited.

I’m open to ideas DeFi, CEX, vaults, whatever. Just looking for real short-term high-yield plays that actually pay. If anyone’s found something better (or if you’ve tried these types of deals before), drop some knowledge.

Not recommended, but most of the Centralized Exchanges are offering 7 day and 14 day savings package where you can store your USDT there for 1-2 weeks, and they will pay you. The payment isn't that huge though, but that would be better than just storing it and not earning anything from it. Be careful though because it's a CEX.

[Aorta13]

I sincerely get where you’re coming from, High gains come with a ton of hoops to jump through, and 600% APR on USDT for 3 days definitely raises eyebrows. But sometimes, exchanges roll out aggressive short-term promos to attract new users and this is another tactics to get my users (big incentives, low barriers) quite catchy right?, if there is no weird fine print (withdrawal limits, complex lockups, etc.), it could just be a legit onboarding deal.
That said, it is okay to spread risk, even the market comes with risk but some event have a certain level of calculated risked.
Some DeFi vaults, CEX and structured products offer decent short-term yields, but usually with more mechanics involved (Terms and Conditions), I will be curious to hear what else people are looking at for high-yield plays right now.

[Zed0X]

Those days are probably gone. Now, it's like gambling your money to some platform and hoping the developer would not shut it down. Long existing platforms are unlikely to offer the same rates again because they are already popular and maybe because of regulations. Maybe just look for offers over 5%-10% but with flexible terms.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

     -     As far as I know, you can find higher yields on dex protocols not in Cex platforms. Maybe you should try researching those, op, as I have seen higher yields before
mostly on Dexe's, if I only had money at that time I would have probably taken advantage of that for sure.

So the 600$ APR in 3 days seems impossible to find on centralized platforms, though the yielding is high for sure. The only problem is that at this time
I haven't seen anything like that on Cex.

[rdluffy]

I miss the good ol' days of 3 digits APR for stables, now that's really rare.

What I've been doing to park my USDC is leave them on Hyperliquid's HLP vault, which currently sits at a shy 11% APR with some spikes to 20% when some crazy trading happens (i.e last time a coin had a big wave of liquidations, I got an extra 10% APR in a day). Yes, that's almost nothing compared to the 300% APR, but the other option is just leaving this money getting dust on my wallet.

Also, better to get 10% on a safer protocol then to risk everything for 50% APR or more. I know that because I've been rugged a couple of times.

Hehehe listen to this guy, he was a truly degen 


Since I'm farming airdrops, I'm not focusing on APR, but I'll do some research to look for good opportunities
AAVE, MarginFi, Kamino, all good protocols that I consider safe to leave some stablecoins earning some %

Sometimes there are nice opportunities in new networks, but they don't last long, it's only a few days of good APR and them people discover and they reduce the APR

[Charles-Tim]

Then I saw 600% APR on USDT for 3 days today. First reaction? WTF. Either it’s the wildest onboarding deal ever, or there’s a hidden catch I haven’t spotted yet. No crazy commitments, no weird mechanics just high yield, short-term.

I like that you know that it is definitely a scam. It is obviously a scam.

I’m open to ideas DeFi, CEX, vaults, whatever. Just looking for real short-term high-yield plays that actually pay. If anyone’s found something better (or if you’ve tried these types of deals before), drop some knowledge.

You can not see more than 10% APR.  That makes it 0.000274x daily return. That is too small for me. Although, youay be able to see slightly higher APR but not really higher to 10% APR.

[Faisal2202]

One thing you need to understand is actually the fact that the crypto space is full of more junks than the real deal. There are so many unverified projects out there some can even be scam projects but without proper understanding and research you may find it difficult to spot them.

Even the DeFi space isn't left out when it actually comes to this. There are many altcoins out there but currently the question is would they hold up?

That's a good question we should look into while choosing a project, to invest in. Sometimes we need luck too besides research because many times we find a good project and due to technical loopholes some hackers get access to the funds and steal all of it, that's a generic reason.

We can't be 100% safe all the time therefore we should not trust only one project but invest in multiple project and diversify the investment this way we can minimize our risk, the one thing we should keep in our mind that not every thing that shine is a gold, and this is enough for a newbie to keep themselves safe from scam projects.

[JISAN]

I swear, finding legit short-term yield in this market is starting to feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Everything either locks your funds for months, pays out in some token that dumps before you can even claim, or worse turns out to be another scam with fancy APR numbers.

One thing you need to understand is actually the fact that the crypto space is full of more junks than the real deal. There are so many unverified projects out there some can even be scam projects but without proper understanding and research you may find it difficult to spot them.

Even the DeFi space isn't left out when it actually comes to this. There are many altcoins out there but currently the question is would they hold up?

Now the market condition is very bad so short term investment or staking should not be done in this situation. Because now the market has become completely unpredictable. Due to which if investing in this market, one's research will not work properly due to which it will be very difficult to get profit from here. So one should definitely avoid the current situation and hold the stable coin safely so that it is under your control till the bear season. And if you can invest that time and hold them for long term, you can get multiple times profit.

[Mia Chloe]

That's a good question we should look into while choosing a project, to invest in. Sometimes we need luck too besides research because many times we find a good project and due to technical loopholes some hackers get access to the funds and steal all of it, that's a generic reason.

When it comes to meme coins I don't think it's actually a good option to rely on luck because you would likely have a higher chance of losing most of the time. The meme coin space works with hype, which is created by advertisement and investor icons.

As a result of this the manipulation is very high and to be able to take advantage of it you need to be able to see beyond the manipulation and to be able to do that you also need to have premium information about the project and not just analysis only.

[memehunter]

BetFury is offering up to 60% APR ON USDT. You can check it out at https://betfury.com/crypto-and-earn. Don't forget to check out wagering requirements and other terms.
 

[target]

BetFury is offering up to 60% APR ON USDT. You can check it out at https://betfury.com/crypto-and-earn. Don't forget to check out wagering requirements and other terms.

I see. That's really a good deal if you trust the casino. I know Betfury is popular, so yes maybe they can really pay that much after a year of staking a large sum.  Besides OP is looking for short term like days which is crazy to be seen these days. The shortest I see is 3 months.

But if you are anxious that a rugged can happen any time, then just be satisfied with a certain percentage like 15% APR.

[Faisal2202]

As a result of this the manipulation is very high and to be able to take advantage of it you need to be able to see beyond the manipulation and to be able to do that you also need to have premium information about the project and not just analysis only.

I can't agree more, meme coins are very risky and high volatile, we cannot make profit from meme coins on the basis of luck alone we need luck + premium knowledge like you said, besides these two we have to be active everytime to make quicky buying and selling.

I find one way more efficient as a newbie if we can't give much time to analysis and finding premium knowledge we can follow big whales as they do all that and pick some meme coins, if we would follow them the chances of making profit is higher than losing.