DISCLAIMER 1: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Interacting with DeFi protocols involves risk, including potential loss of assets.
$1.1 billion in DAO treasury stablecoins are sitting in Safe wallets doing nothing. The people managing those wallets have conviction. What they don't have is time for the stack of decisions that yield requires: which protocol, which custody setup, who writes the distribution logic, who maintains it when the person who set it up leaves.
We kept hearing the same thing from DAO contributors: "We tried this once. The guy who configured it moved on, nobody understood the contracts, so we unwound the position and went back to holding idle USDC." The operational overhead kills the project before the yield ever matters.
Octant vaults are built to remove that overhead.
What's new
Octant vaults now run three Yearn Tokenized Strategies: USDC, USDS, and wETH. You deposit assets into an Octant vault. Yearn generates yield on those assets. Octant routes the yield to recipients you configure.
Octant Vaults Dashboard
The three strategies, live now
Pick the asset you hold. Click through to Yearn's interface to see exactly where the yield comes from.
Deposits into Yearn's USDC Tokenized Strategy. Capital rotates across lending markets based on current conditions. Yearn selects the protocols, manages concentration, and rebalances when markets shift.
Octant Yearn USDC Strategy
Sky's native stablecoin. Deploys into Yearn's Tokenized Strategy across the same lending markets as USDC. Same rotation logic, different underlying yield sources.
Octant Yearn USDS-1 Strategy
Deploys across multiple lending markets simultaneously. Yield is denominated in ETH, so you're not converting to stablecoins. Yearn selects the protocols and rebalances them automatically.
Octant Yearn wETH Strategy
Each vault shows its current strategy allocation: which protocols the yield comes from, and how capital is allocated.
The Yearn Tokenized Strategy integration removes the intermediary vault layer. These are V3 Tokenized Strategies: the strategy is the vault. Direct connection between the yield source and your configured recipients.
All three are ERC-4626 compliant and work with existing Safe multisig setups.
The Octant App runs as a Safe App.
Enter our app URL: https://vaults.v2.octant.app, so you can configure recipients and manage deposits without leaving Safe.
Octant Dragon vault Safe App Onboarding
Why not build it yourself?
A DAO could do this from scratch. Deploy directly to Aave or Compound, write a custom splitter contract, hire someone to run the keeper, and monitor rebalancing. A few have. Most haven't, because the ongoing maintenance cost exceeds the yield for treasuries under $10M. Treasury management services solve this with dedicated teams and custom deployments, but that model costs more than most DAOs can justify.
The alternative: deposit into an Octant vault and let existing infrastructure handle yield generation, routing, and distribution in one step.
Getting started
Operational overhead is a solvable problem when the right infrastructure exists. For USDS, USDC, and wETH, it does.
The vaults are live with strategy options along with prior ones, Sky Rewards (USDS), and Morpho Compounder (USDS).
Octant Vaults New Yearn Strategies for USDS, USDC, and wETH
This is part one of two. Article 2 will cover how Yearn curates yield across lending markets and what that means for the strategies connected to Octant vaults.
DISCLAIMER 2: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, or any other form of recommendation. Nothing in this article should be construed as a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any digital asset or to use any particular financial product or service. Octant vaults involve interaction with decentralized finance protocols and smart contracts. These carry inherent risks including, but not limited to: smart contract vulnerabilities, protocol failures, stablecoin depegging, variable and unpredictable yield rates, regulatory changes, and potential loss of deposited assets. Past performance or current yield rates are not indicative of future results. Risk scores referenced in this article are provided by third parties (Yearn Finance) and do not represent an independent assessment by Octant. Users are solely responsible for evaluating the risks and suitability of any vault or strategy for their particular circumstances. You should consult your own legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any decisions regarding digital asset management. Octant does not have custody of deposited assets. The vaults operate through non-custodial smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum blockchain.
