Yield Aggregators evaluated across the protocols each vault inherits, its loss record, audits of its own and inherited code, whether the total take-rate is published, and who can change a strategy.
Ranked here: yield aggregators that auto-compound a reader's yield across protocols, inheriting the dependencies and loss record of the protocols they use. Not ranked here: yield products that do not auto-compound a reader's yield across protocols.
#1 of 7 · published ranking
Convex Finance
81ChainChoice Score
4199
Why it leads
Convex Finance scores higher than everything else in this ranking on its dependency surface and its inherited exploit record.
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Best in this ranking on dependency surface and inherited exploit record
ReviewedNext review by Published Methodology v2026.11.1
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Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
No provider can pay for a position in this table. The code that computes this order cannot read which links carry a referral code, and every build proves it. Every score below rebuilds from the published criteria.Ranking v2026.11.1 · 4 criteria · 7 products · same inputs, same order
How we review · 7 ranked of 7 assessed · 4 criteria · 0 sponsor weight
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What yield aggregators cost you
Your inputs update the cost column. The independent ranking stays fixed.
The operator's cut of the rewards your stake earns — not a fee on the stake itself. Gross yield is your assumption, not ours.
Inherited dependency surface — 9/10Trade-off: TVL was $455.2M on 5 Aug 2026 against a peak of $21.17B on 5 Jan 2022 — a 97.9% drawd...
81score
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Convex Finance · convexfinance.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
2
Concentrator (AladdinDAO)Compounds Convex rewards into aCRV and...
Total take-rate and whether it is published — 6/10Trade-off: Fee stacking is the buried cost: Convex's 17% of CRV revenue is taken before Concentr...
57score
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Concentrator (AladdinDAO) · concentrator.aladdin.club. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
Total take-rate and whether it is published — 7/10Trade-off: The flagship yield-aggregator product is now a rump: Origin Dollar held $5.8M on 5 Au...
57score
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Origin (OUSD / OETH / ARM) · originprotocol.com. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
Same score, not joint · ordered by weighted total (38.50 against 38.30)
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CIAN Yield LayerLeveraged and aggregated LST/LRT vaults...
Total take-rate and whether it is published — 7/10Trade-off: The largest protocol DefiLlama classified as a pure Yield Aggregator on 5 Aug 2026 ($...
57score
Lowest at your inputs
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CIAN Yield Layer · cian.app. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
5
Stake DAOLiquid lockers and auto-compounding str...
Strategy change control — 6/10Trade-off: Refusing to print a fee number in the documentation is the single clearest disclosure...
56score
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Stake DAO · stakedao.org. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
Same score, not joint · ordered by weighted total (38.00 against 37.80)
6
Yearn FinanceMulti-strategy ERC-4626 vaults; up to 2...
Strategy change control — 6/10Trade-off: Process controls did not prevent the largest own-code loss: the yUSDT wiring error sa...
56score
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Yearn Finance · yearn.fi. Provider links appear once we know which country you are browsing from: ChainChoice links to providers only where it serves in full.
Commission: This provider pays ChainChoice nothing for this link. Disclosure
Crypto products are high risk. Check the provider is authorised where you live before you deposit.
1 more assessed and ranked below — none of them hidden for commercial reasons.
Ranked on 4 published criteria weighted 30/30/20/20, which set goal alignment — 30 of the 86 points. The rest: regional access 20 (constant here), evidence depth 18 (constant here), ease of use 10 (constant here), institutional trust 8 (constant here). Profile match is shown in breakdowns but carries no weight.
How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
Contract failure: the code holding the funds is exploited.
Scored by Loss record own and inherited · 30% (Convex Finance 8/10, Concentrator (AladdinDAO) 5/10, Origin (OUSD / OETH / ARM) 3/10)
Control failure: a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.
Scored by Strategy change control · 20% (Convex Finance 6/10, Concentrator (AladdinDAO) 2/10, Origin (OUSD / OETH / ARM) 4/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Regulatory failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Total take-rate and whether it is published (20%).
Audit
Infrastructure
Methodology
2026.11.1
published 10 November 2026
Providers tracked
860+
across 121 categories
Last verified
3 November 2026
newest dated pricing or sentiment read
Named on the roster
2 people
managing directors · 6 automated processes
Decision guide
What matters most before choosing in this category
The best aggregator depends on how many protocols you are willing to be exposed to, because an aggregator is a claim on everything its strategies route into — you hold its risk plus theirs. Losses count whether the bug was in its own code or in something it integrated, since the depositor loses either way. And retirement rate says more about strategy durability than any APY: one provider here has retired 3,471 of the 4,028 vaults it ever launched.
How many underlying protocols are you willing to inherit risk from?
Has this aggregator ever lost funds — including through a protocol it merely integrated?
How quickly can the strategy change under you, and who authorises it?
Current engine lead
The #1 overall and the scoring weights
Convex FinanceData checked Nov 2026
Boosted Curve LP staking; deposits route into Curve gauges
Boosted Curve LP staking; deposits route into Curve gauges. Strongest on inherited dependency surface (9/10): Convex's risk page names exactly two inherited platforms, Curve and Frax. A Curve LP deposit is staked into that pool's own Curve gauge, with no leverage layer and no second aggregator underneath, and each pool's route is fixed. Weakest on strategy change control (6/10): A 3-of-5 multisig can add pools and move fees within hard-coded ranges with no timelock. Convex states that the multisig has no direct access to user deposits, and its shutdown paths leave withdrawals open. Published price: Convex fees page (docs.convexfinance.com/convexfinance/faq/fees, read 3 November 2026): "There is a 17% total fee on all CRV revenue generated by Curve LP's on the platform": "10%" to cvxCRV stakers (paid as CRV), "4.5%" to CVX stakers (paid as cvxCRV), "2%" to…
Best forInherited dependency surface — 9/10
Main tradeoffTVL was $455.2M on 5 Aug 2026 against a peak of $21.17B on 5 Jan 2022 — a 97.9% drawdown. You are buying concentrated, undiversified exposure to Curve's continued existence, from a protocol whose own docs still describe an integration (Prisma) that died two years ago.
Verify before signupConvex fees page (docs.convexfinance.com/convexfinance/faq/fees, read 3 November 2026): "There is a 17% total fee on all CRV revenue generated by Curve LP's on the platform": "10%" to cvxCRV stakers (paid as CRV), "4.5%" to CVX stakers (paid as cvxCRV), "2%" to treasury (paid as CRV) and "0.5%" to the harvest caller (paid as CRV). "Fees are taken only from CRV revenue; no fees are taken from tokens from incentivized Curve pools, nor from veCRV admin fees". "Fees can be adjusted between hard-coded ranges" ("10-15%", "3-6%", "0-2%" and "0.1 - 1.0%") under "an absolute fee ceiling of 20%". Frax LPs: "There is a 20% total fee on all FXS revenue generated by Frax LP's on the platform"; FXN-boosted LPs: "There is a 17% total fee on all revenue generated by FXN boosted LP's on the platform". Convex's liquidity-provider page states "Zero deposit and withdraw fees".
Weighted criteria
Inherited dependency surface30%
Loss record own and inherited30%
Total take-rate and whether it is published20%
Strategy change control20%
Methodology
How this category is reviewed
Reviewed on the protocols each vault inherits, its loss record on its own and inherited code, whether the total take-rate is published, and who can change a strategy.
The order on this page is the published ranking for this category. Every criterion, weight and source behind it is on the methodology page.
Frequently asked
Questions people ask before choosing yield aggregators
What is the difference between staking and yield aggregator in crypto?
Staking secures a network and pays rewards for doing so. An aggregator routes your deposit through other protocols and compounds the result, which means the yield is real but so is every dependency it picked up on the way.
What is an inherited loss?
A loss that originated in a protocol the aggregator routed into rather than in its own contracts. It is scored the same as a first-party loss, because the depositor's outcome is identical and the routing decision was the aggregator's.
What matters most when choosing a yield aggregator?
The dependency surface and the loss record — 60% of the weight between them. Then the full take-rate, and how fast a strategy can change under you.
Why is a high retirement rate a warning?
Because it shows how many strategies stopped working. Vaults are retired when the underlying incentive dries up or the integration breaks, so a very high retirement rate tells you the shelf life of what you are about to deposit into.
Reviewed3 November 2026Method4 criteriaCategoryyield_aggregators
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