Best yield aggregators in 2026

Boosted Curve LP staking; deposits route into Curve gauges. Strongest on inherited dependency surface (9/10): A Curve LP deposit is staked into its own Curve gauge. Convex names exactly two inherited platforms — "users are also beholden to any risks that pertain to the Curve.fi platform and Frax Finance platform, as Convex integrates directly with them" — and states "Convex is price agnostic and thus does not require oracles." Weakest on strategy change control (6/10): Routing is fixed per Curve pool, the 3-of-5 multisig "does NOT have direct access to user deposits" and shutdown paths leave withdrawals open. Against that, no timelock stands on any admin action by design, the only timelock (30 days) guards a force-shutdown path, and the multisig can add pools and move fees within ranges instantly. Published price: Curve LP deposits: 17% total fee on CRV revenue — 10% to cvxCRV stakers (paid as CRV), 4.5% to CVX stakers (paid as cvxCRV), 2% to treasury (paid as CRV), 0.5% to the harvest caller (paid as CRV).

Best for: Inherited dependency surface — 9/10

Compounds Convex rewards into aCRV and aFXS; sits on top of Convex. Strongest on total take-rate and whether it is published (6/10): Per-vault fee tables are public without a wallet: 10% treasury plus 2% harvest on the aCVX, abcCVX, aFXS and aCRV compounders, while the asdCRV compounder charges 0.50% harvest and 10.00% treasury plus a 15% boost fee the headline 12% does not cover. The docs do not show the fees charged underneath by Convex or Stake DAO. Weakest on strategy change control (2/10): Concentrator's ProxyAdmin and its aCRV, asdCRV and IFO vaults are owned directly by the Concentrator Treasury Safe (6 of 9 on-chain, no modules or guard) with no timelock contract in between. None of the AladdinDAO docs pages fetched mentions a timelock or a strategy-approval process, so upgrades and strategy changes can take effect in a single multisig transaction. Published price: "Concentrator takes a 10% treasury fee and a 2% harvest fee on yields. The fees were collected during the harvest process and distributed to the Treasury and Keeper respectively."

Best for: Total take-rate and whether it is published — 6/10

Rebasing yield tokens routing into Morpho, Curve and beacon-chain validators. Strongest on total take-rate and whether it is published (7/10): One flat 20% performance fee is stated on a public Performance Fees page, "every APY figure Origin publishes is already net of fees", and the scoping on the WETH, USDe and USDC ARM Vaults is disclosed; the rate is a protocol parameter under xOGN governance. Weakest on loss record own and inherited (3/10): One large own-code loss, in Origin's words: "On November 17, 2020, malicious hackers attacked the OUSD smart contracts and were able to drain over $7M USD of user deposits (including $1M of deposits from Origin’s founders and company treasury)." Origin's plan provided compensation equal to 100% of the value deposited, but under it larger depositors were to receive 25% in OUSD and 75% in OGN locked for one year. Published price: "Origin charges a 20% performance fee on the yield its products generate. The fee applies to yield only, never principal, and every APY figure Origin publishes is already net of fees."

Best for: Total take-rate and whether it is published — 7/10

Leveraged and aggregated LST/LRT vaults across Aave, Morpho, Pendle. Strongest on total take-rate and whether it is published (7/10): 8% performance and 0.02% exit are published with a worked example (10 ETH deposit, 10% APY, 0.08 ETH fee). But the same corpus exposes an API field `fee_info.management` described as "Anual management fee" — a per-vault annual charge the headline fee page implies is 0%. Weakest on strategy change control (2/10): CIAN's risk page says "withdrawal is going through batched execution with manual review", and the docs estimate withdrawn assets arrive in about 5 days. On-chain, the stETH Yield Layer vault and its upgrade ProxyAdmin are owned directly by a 3-of-4 Safe with no module or guard; the documented TimeLock has a 1-day delay but owns neither, so upgrades and ownership actions do not pass through it. Published price: "Performance Fee: CIAN charges a 8% performance fee on profits made. This fee is already calculated in the Net APY shown.

Best for: Total take-rate and whether it is published — 7/10