Why YO is Different

In a landscape where “total value locked” can be a mirage and incentives are often misaligned, YO was built on a simple principle: transparency and trust. While many yield optimizers advertise risk-adjusted yield, following the yield trail often reveals the opposite: layers of complexity, recursive collateral exposure, inflated TVL figures, and taking hidden risks in pursuit of optics.

YO takes a fundamentally different approach and doesn’t play games with users’ trust.

1. Full Transparency

Every YO vault is fully auditable onchain, with clear visibility of underlying strategies and positions. All exposures are easily reviewed in the vault dashboards, with insights into pool, protocol and chain exposures, as well as vault rebalancing activities. What you see is what you get.

YO believes users deserve to know exactly where their assets are deployed. Each vault page now includes integrations with tools like DeBank, allowing anyone to independently verify yield sources and allocations in real time. This level of transparency is not an afterthought. It is part of how YO proves that sustainable yield can exist without opacity or trust assumptions.

2. Real Metrics, Real Users

YO doesn’t loop its own vaults or recycle internal liquidity to create the illusion of scale. Many “optimizers” in DeFi’s past and present inflate TVL by depositing one vault’s receipts into another, creating recursive growth that looks impressive but adds zero real value, and compounds systemic risk.

YO does none of that. The Protocol’s TVL represents real user deposits, deployed across real strategies, earning real yield. Allocations are diversified across lending markets, liquidity pools, and structured yield strategies that are verified for risk through Exponential’s framework. YO’s growth reflects trust, not leverage.

3. Aligned Incentives

YO doesn’t have any hidden conflicts that plague many yield protocols. There are no incentive structures that reward YO for taking excessive risk over fund safety, and there are no hidden fees. The system is designed so that user outcomes are directly aligned with protocol outcomes. When vaults perform well, the ecosystem grows. When they do not, no one is shielded from accountability.

YO partners only with audited, transparent protocols whose risk parameters can be independently verified. By structuring vault strategies around composable primitives rather than opaque intermediaries, YO ensures that performance and safety are measurable at every layer.

Building Yield that Lasts

The next generation of yield is about building systems that endure. At YO, that means full transparency, sustainable yield, and aligned incentives that can stand the test of time.