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Where yield comes from
Every honest return is somebody paying for something. If you cannot name who pays and what for, you are looking at the other kind.
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Every honest return is somebody paying for something. These pages say who is paying, what for, and what breaks when the arrangement stops working — staking, lending, liquidity pools, running a node. You will not find rates here and you will not find platforms named as worth using: a yield advertised today is a marketing number, not a number you will receive.
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Mechanics, not offers
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Staking, three ways
The same word covers three arrangements with three different risks. What you are actually doing depends on who holds the coins.
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Reading APY and APR
Two numbers, different maths, and one of them is designed to look bigger. Here is how to compare two offers honestly.
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Lending, and how it fails
Somebody borrows and pays interest. The mechanism is old and simple; the ways it breaks are specific and worth knowing before you lend.
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Liquidity pools
You collect trading fees, and you pay a cost that only appears when prices move. Both are real, and only one gets advertised.
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Running a node
Two different things share the name. One is infrastructure you run for yourself; the other is a business with staff costs and no employees.
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