Frequently Asked Questions
How does yETH earn APY?
yETH earns APY through various sources:
- Swap fee income from the Automated Market Maker (AMM)
- Incentives fee income, which are incentives for staker participation in governance
- Liquid Staking Derivative (LSD) income from staked ETH yield
- Buying LSTs at a discount
- Whitelisting fees
However, there are also deductions such as Beacon Chain slashings and a 10% Yearn performance fee on profits.
Please note that yield is paid out one week after it is generated. The yield generated in week n is streamed out in week n+1.
What other benefits does yETH give holders?
yETH provides diversification by holding a basket of LSDs, which helps to spread the risk.
How is yield passed onto stakers?
LSD Protocols generate yield and update their onchain rates. This results in yETH being minted and sent to st-yETH.
Can I withdraw multiple LSDs?
Yes, you can withdraw multiple LSDs or just one LSD. However, your withdrawal cannot cause an LSD to leave its safety bands around its target weight. For example, if a pool has a weight of 20% and a band of 5%, the actual weight is allowed to be between 15% and 25%. This caps losses to, at most, 25%, assuming a token permanently depegs and goes to 0. In that worst-case scenario, yETH depegs to 0.75 ETH, because you can always do a balanced withdrawal of all the assets, of which only 25% is worthless. Compare this to holding the depegged token yourself, where you would have a loss of 100%.
Is there slippage with proportional withdrawal?
No, there is no slippage with proportional withdrawal.