As part of the rollout for our new V3 tech stack, we’re partnering with the best and brightest in decentralised finance (DeFi) to disrupt and enhance what it means to earn yield in the decentralised finance artificial intelligence (DeFAI) era.

One of our first collaborations is with HeyAnon, the DeFAI protocol designed to simplify DeFi interactions and aggregate essential project-related information. By combining conversational artificial intelligence (AI) with real-time data aggregation, HeyAnon enables users to manage DeFi operations, stay informed on project updates, and analyse trends across various platforms and protocols.

By integrating AI language processing for user prompts and complex DeFi actions, HeyAnon is helping Yelay simplify and transform users’ abilities to earn and generate yield in ways that meet the needs of today and the future of DeFAI.

HeyAnon Meets the Trusted Yield Environment

With HeyAnon, users can use a network of AI agents to manage on-chain DeFi actions through conversational AI. By integrating with our Trusted Yield Environment (TYE), users can use conversational AI to aid their on-chain quest for finding the best yield opportunities in DeFi.

But as AI advances, so too does the need for security, which is why interacting with secure, smart, and automated DeFAI agents will become a hallmark of decentralised finance.

With our TYE, powered by our V3 technology, we’re enabling users of HeyAnon’s AI agents to use command prompts to facilitate DeFi actions, like converting yield strategies into passive income. This approach allows you to access optimised returns automatically, without the manual headaches and complex multi-step processes that were once required to achieve the same results.

“Through utilising DeFAI infrastructure like the Trusted Yield Environment, users of HeyAnon can unlock its full potential,” said Daniele Sesta, founder of HeyAnon. “We’re excited to bring this integration to our users, giving them seamless access to the best of Ethereum DeFi.”

Security Meets Simplicity

Artificial intelligence and AI agents are increasingly managing on-chain capital and on-chain portfolios, increasing the need for secure, verified environments where agents can deploy funds and earn yield without the risks of scammers or other engineered attacks.

Our TYE addresses this challenge by providing a single point of access via the Yelay API, which minimises attack vectors and is supported by the audited nature of Yelay’s smart contract suite. Through our automated risk management technology, agents can leverage portfolio optimisation tools provided by the contract suite to ensure predefined risk levels are never exceeded.

Initially, HeyAnon will integrate the TYE to enhance its AI agents’ capabilities in managing user portfolios across multiple chains. Users will have access to top Ethereum blue-chip DeFi protocols but with more efficient execution, enhanced security assurances, and a better user experience — with our TYE securing HeyAnon’s entire DeFAI network.

But We’re Only Just Getting Started

As DeFAI continues to grow and expand, trusted and safe DeFAI infrastructure will become a necessity. Such infrastructure is already here in the form of our TYE powered by V3. By combining Yelay’s secure and automated yield generation technology with the simplicity of HeyAnon’s AI command-prompt technology for DeFi, we’re abstracting the complexities from on-chain yield earning potential and putting more ease of use back into users’ hands.

To learn more about how you can start earning risk-optimised DeFi yield simply and securely, check out Yelay and HeyAnon today and begin your rewarding journey through DeFAI.

Get ready to blast off into the yield stratosphere with the launch of Yelay’s V3 — our latest innovation in enabling Ethereum-based liquidity to move cross-chain.

Our new sleek, lightning-fast technology is the powerhouse behind our Yield Layer expansion. It’s equipped to meet the ever-evolving landscape of decentralised finance (DeFi) and the rapidly growing future of decentralised finance artificial intelligence (DeFAI) and acts as the heartbeat behind a new wave of cross-chain, yield-generating products and services.

Our Cross-Chain Migration

At its core, our V3 tech upgrade is the gateway to providing a convenient way for users, builders, and developers to interact with the Yelay protocol faster and more efficiently than ever before. Our new V3 SDK — which encapsulates remote product calls (RPC) to Yelay smart contracts — makes it easier for developers to integrate Yelay functionality into their projects.

Yelay V3 is a highly modular technology, focusing on five key ‘Yield Layer for Partners’ requirements:

1. Generating maximum risk-adjusted yield from connected protocols at any given time.
2. Providing simple tooling for the ‘convert yield to anything’ use case.
3. Offering low gas fees on deposits.
4. Supporting multi-chain compatibility.
5. Enabling flexibility to update the types of strategies/protocols our vaults are connected to over time.

As of April 2025, Yelay V3 is already available on Base and Ethereum, and non-EVM chains like Sui will soon follow. The goal is for V3 to become the industry standard infrastructure for yield-powered apps and earn products.

A Look Beneath the V3 Umbrella

Instead of a chaotic labyrinth of smart contracts and the need to be a DeFi degen to understand them, our V3 upgrade abstracts away the complexity of building yield-based products and integrations so that earning yield in the DeFAI era is a seamless experience.

At the forefront of that ease is Yelay’s Trusted Yield Environment (TYE), our secure, transparent, and efficient infrastructure for AI-powered financial operations.

Similar to how Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) serve as a secure foundation for sensitive computational processes, our TYE serves as the crucial layer between DeFAI platforms and the broader DeFi ecosystem.

Think of V3 as the motor oil for Yelay’s DeFAI Formula 1 race car, powering a smoother ride as users enlist their AI agents to discover the best cross-chain yield opportunities — all by plugging into Yelay’s technology. With V3, users receive:

• Automated Yield Optimisation: Access to the best blue-chip DeFi yields.
• Gas-Efficient Deposits: Low-cost for transaction executions.
• Rebalancing and Compounding: Automatically switch strategies by setting up your AI agent to act according to your preferred risk exposure.

Whether you’re interested in staking rewards, yield-backed stablecoins, or automated passive income strategies, our fast, fresh V3 tech makes access possible.

Buy Now, Pay Never

Our new V3 tech not only provides plug-and-play infrastructure that allows builders to create and easily launch ‘Stake and Earn’ products, but those products can also automatically generate rewards, so users never have to lift a finger.

As DeFAI continues to make the DeFi world more autonomous, V3 has our tech buzzing with possibilities that can help automate yield for rewards. Imagine paying for subscriptions, paying bills, or even buying a movie by simply allocating your yield to cover the cost. V3 makes this innovation possible, and we’re only just now scratching the surface.

Later this year, we’ll look to make an even bigger rewards splash with the launch of Yelay Mart — your one-stop shop for putting yield to work for you so that you buy now and pay never for the products and services that matter to you most.

V3 and the Future of DeFAI

Whether you’re a DeFAI project, working with a DeFAI agent, a launch pool, or a treasury management solution, our V3 tech helps you choose the yield strategies and protocols best suited for your needs now and in the future.

Our vaults can be updated at any time to adjust to changes in market and risk preferences, and projects can now tap into Yelay’s risk-optimised yield automation and security.

As more and more AI agents enter the DeFi space, DeFAI will continue to blossom, and Yelay’s V3 helps it remain one step ahead of both DeFI and DeFAI initiatives.

Our V3 technology provides the keys to the kingdom for those who want to build cross-chain DeFi products designed for the future of DeFAI. Simply plug it in and launch.

Gone are the days of painstakingly tedious processes trying to generate the best yield manually. It’s all in the past. With V3, we can bring DeFAI cross-chain to the masses instead of getting swallowed by it.

For the latest in yield-generating products and DeFAI yield technology, check out Yelay today and discover how our V3 stack can help power your DeFAI future.

Def-AI. Dee-Fayi. However you pronounce it, the intersection of decentralised finance and artificial intelligence (DeFAI) is here to stay.

DeFAI — and the agents that complete DeFAI actions — will revolutionise decentralised finance (DeFi) on-chain through the simplification and abstraction of the complex transactions, strategies, and analysis required to successfully navigate the DeFi space.

But with a simplified user experience comes inherent risks related to centralisation, the security of the AI agent in question, and the risk of poor fund management through inadequate model training.

The DeFAI Revolution and Challenge

AI models can make it difficult for users to understand how decisions are made, which is antithetical to the transparency ethos of blockchain. Furthermore, integrating AI into DeFi might complicate regulatory compliance, especially with algorithms making autonomous decisions in financial contexts.

DeFAI represents the next evolution in decentralised finance, where AI agents automate complex financial strategies, optimise yields, and simplify user interactions with DeFi protocols. This advancement promises to democratise sophisticated financial strategies previously accessible only to institutional investors.

The integration of AI into DeFi presents unique challenges:

• Security risks from automated decision-making
• Lack of transparency in AI operations
• Complex cross-chain yield optimisation
• Regulatory compliance concerns
• Risk of poor fund management through inadequate AI training

Enter Yelay’s Yield Layer.

Our Yield Layer reduces risk of user funds being compromised or mismanaged, with Yelay only requiring agents to plug into our dedicated AI-optimised vaults. The rest is managed by our Yield Layer infrastructure, ensuring users are given safer, more secure yields across multiple chains.

Yelay is the DeFAI Yield Infrastructure Powering Agents

Yelay’s Yield Layer is optimised for DeFAI agents, giving them access to over 40 strategies from top blue-chip Ethereum DeFi protocols like Lido, AAVE, Morpho, Gearbox, and Curve.

Furthermore, the ability to tap into the Ethereum DeFi landscape from other chains including Sui, Base, and Arbitrum, ensures transaction fees are kept at a minimum whilst Ethereum’s higher yields and security remain.

The Yield Layer also provides the following:

Enhanced Yield Optimisation

• Automated Strategy Implementation: Yelay can apply preset yield strategies across different DeFi platforms, automatically adjusting to market conditions for optimal returns without human intervention.
• Cross-Chain Yield Farming: By accessing multiple chains, the AI can exploit yield opportunities that are unique to each blockchain or those that span across chains through bridges or liquidity pools.

Diversification

• Risk Management: Diversifying investments across multiple DeFi protocols reduces the risk associated with any single platform or smart contract failure.
• Platform-Specific Advantages: AI agents can leverage Yelay’s automation across multiple DeFi protocols for better overall performance.

Efficiency and Scalability

• Reduced Transaction Overhead: By optimising interactions across chains, the AI agents can minimise gas fees and transaction times, making operations more cost-effective.
• Scalability: Yelay allows AI agents to scale operations across numerous platforms without the need for manual reconfiguration for each new chain or protocol.

Security and Compliance

• Security Checks: Yelay uses only the most trusted DeFi protocols, helping agents avoid platforms with known vulnerabilities or poor governance structures.
• Regulatory Compliance: Yelay helps ensure regulatory compliance for DeFAI users.

Reduced Operational Complexity

• Simplified Control: Yelay simplifies the complexity of managing investments across chains and protocols by providing a unified control layer where the AI can operate.

Yelay: The Trusted Yield Environment™ for DeFAI

As DeFAI emerges as a transformative force in blockchain, Yelay is positioning itself as the industry’s first Trusted Yield Environment™ (TYE), providing a secure, transparent, and efficient infrastructure for AI-powered financial operations.

Yelay’s TYE serves as the critical infrastructure layer between DeFAI platforms and the broader DeFi ecosystem, similar to how Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) serve as a secure foundation for sensitive computational processes.

Drawing inspiration from TEEs in hardware security, Yelay’s TYE creates a secure, isolated environment for DeFAI operations. This infrastructure connects over 40 blue-chip DeFi strategies across multiple chains, including Ethereum, Sui, Base, and Arbitrum.

Key Features

Secured Yield Optimisation: Our TYE provides AI agents with protected access to verified yield strategies, ensuring secure and optimal returns whilst maintaining the integrity of user funds. Similar to how TEEs protect sensitive computations, Yelay’s infrastructure safeguards yield-generating operations.

Transparent Operations: Unlike traditional ‘black box’ AI systems, Yelay’s TYE provides complete transparency into yield strategies and protocol interactions, maintaining blockchain’s ethos of openness whilst protecting proprietary AI algorithms.

Cross-Chain Security: Yelay’s infrastructure enables secure cross-chain operations, allowing AI agents to access Ethereum’s robust DeFi ecosystem from multiple chains whilst minimising transaction costs.

Benefits for DeFAI Platforms

Risk Mitigation: Yelay’s comprehensive risk mitigation strategy begins with rigorous pre-vetted protocol integration, ensuring only the most reliable protocols are accessible through our infrastructure. This is enhanced by automated risk management systems that continuously monitor and adjust to market conditions. Our multi-layer security checks work in conjunction with continuous protocol monitoring to provide real-time threat detection and prevention.

Operational Excellence: Our infrastructure delivers exceptional operational efficiency through seamlessly simplified protocol integration, allowing DeFAI platforms to focus on their core capabilities. The system’s automated yield optimisation continuously maximises returns whilst maintaining security. Through gas-efficient operations and robust cross-chain compatibility, platforms can scale their operations across multiple networks without compromising performance or security.

Regulatory Alignment: Yelay’s infrastructure is built with regulatory compliance at its core. Our system maintains transparent operation logging and compliant protocol integration, ensuring all activities are traceable and auditable. Through clear audit trails and a comprehensive risk management framework, platforms can confidently navigate regulatory requirements whilst maintaining operational efficiency.

The Future of DeFAI is The Trusted Yield Environment

Yelay’s Trusted Yield Environment™ represents a paradigm shift in DeFAI infrastructure, providing the security, transparency, and efficiency necessary for the next generation of decentralised finance. By creating a protected environment for AI-driven yield operations, Yelay enables the safe and efficient deployment of DeFAI applications whilst maintaining the core principles of decentralisation and transparency.

As DeFAI continues to evolve, Yelay’s TYE will expand to include advanced AI-specific yield strategies, enhanced cross-chain capabilities, deeper protocol integrations, and extended regulatory compliance tools.

Check out Yelay today and learn the latest in what’s cooking for the DeFAI future.

The process through Wormhole is relatively easy and should take no more than a few minutes.

Here’s what you’ll need to get started:

1. A Sui wallet.
2. $YLAY and $ETH to pay for gas on the Ethereum Network (source chain).
3. $SUI to pay for gas on the Sui Network (destination chain).

Installing Sui Wallet on Browsers

Before starting the bridging, you must install a Sui Wallet on your browser to act as the destination wallet. If you already have a Sui Wallet installed, skip this step and head to the next section.

1. Head over to the Google Chrome Web Store and search for Sui Wallet.
2. Click ‘Add to Chrome’.
3. Click ‘Add Extension’.
4. Follow the onboarding process to set up your Sui Wallet.

Fantastic! You have successfully set up a Sui Wallet and are ready to start the bridging process.

How to Bridge $YLAY to Sui Using Wormhole

Now that you have your Sui Wallet set up, you can navigate to the Portal Token Bridge and begin the bridging process.

Step 1: Navigate to Portal Token Bridge and Select YLAY on Ethereum and Sui

First, head to www.portalbridge.com. This interface allows users to easily bridge tokens from one network to another. For this tutorial, we will bridge $YLAY from the Ethereum Network to the Sui Network.

1. Click ‘Select chain and token’ in the ‘From’ section.
2. Ensure the Ethereum Network is selected and enter ‘YLAY’ into the search bar. You can then click ‘YLAY’.
3. Next, you’ll need to enter ‘YLAY’ on the Sui Network in the destination chain. Click ‘Select chain and token’ in the ‘To’ section.
4. Make sure the ‘Sui Network’ is selected and search again for ‘YLAY’ and click ‘YLAY’.

Step 2: Connect both source and destination wallets

Now that $YLAY has been selected on the Ethereum and Sui networks, you can now connect your wallet.

For this step, you will need to connect two separate wallets: one on Ethereum (e.g., MetaMask) and another on Sui (Sui Wallet).

$YLAY on Ethereum

Address:

0xaee5913ffd19dbca4fd1ef6f3925ed0414407d37

Link:

https://etherscan.io/token/0xaee5913ffd19dbca4fd1ef6f3925ed0414407d37

Connecting your Ethereum Wallet (e.g., MetaMask)

1. Click ‘Connect source wallet’.
2. Select ‘MetaMask’ from the drop-down list.
3. A MetaMask notification will appear, asking you to connect your wallet. Select the wallet you want to connect and click ‘Next’.
4. Another MetaMask notification will appear, asking to confirm the connection to Portal Bridge. Click ‘Confirm’.
5. You will know your Ethereum Wallet is connected if you see your wallet address above the ‘From’ section.

The next step is to connect the destination wallet, which will be the Sui Wallet.

$YLAY on Sui

Address: 0xb2f40a50fec54e308e69c71271b04a30fc470b1db683dff9e64c752bc1f6384d

Link: https://suivision.xyz/coin/0xb2f40a50fec54e308e69c71271b04a30fc470b1db683dff9e64c752bc1f6384d::coin::COIN

Connecting your Sui Wallet

1. Click ‘Connect destination wallet’.
2. A range of options will appear to connect the destination wallet. Select ‘Sui’.
3. A Sui Wallet notification will appear, asking you to connect your wallet to Portal Bridge. Click ‘Confirm’.
4. You will know your wallet is connected if you see your wallet address in the ‘To’ section.

You are now ready to input the amount of $YLAY you want to bridge to Sui.

Step 3: Enter the desired amount and execute the transaction

The final step involves entering the desired amount of $YLAY to bridge to Sui and executing the transaction.

NOTE: You will need $SUI tokens to pay gas on the Sui Network for this transaction.

1. Enter the amount of $YLAY to bridge to the Sui Network in the ‘Amount’ field.
2. The UI will calculate the route and explain that you must make two transactions and have $SUI ready to pay for gas. It will also tell you the estimated time it will take for the transaction to process.
3. Once you are ready to bridge $YLAY from the Ethereum Network to the Sui Network, click ‘Review transaction’.
4. A confirmation screen will appear, asking you to confirm the bridging process. If you are ready to continue, click ‘Confirm transaction’.
5. A series of MetMask notifications will appear. The first will ask you to provide permission for the spending cap for Portal Bridge. Click ‘Next’.
6. On the following screen, click ‘Confirm’.
7. Another MetaMask notification will appear, asking you to confirm the transaction. Note the estimated gas fee and click ‘Confirm’.
8. A MetaMask notification will appear stating that your transaction is being submitted.
9. Now, you must wait approximately 25 minutes for processing.
10. Once the transaction has been submitted successfully, the button will change. Click ‘Claim tokens to complete transfer’.
11. A Sui Wallet notification will appear. Click ‘Approve’.

And that’s all there is to it!

You have successfully bridged $YLAY from the Ethereum Network to the Sui Network and can now view your $YLAY in the Sui Wallet.

For more information on Yelay and how you can become more involved in our ecosystem, check out The Yield Layer today.

As part of Yelay’s continued expansion into the Sui Network, our ecosystem project, PERQ, is launching a brand new Sui Pod. The pod will allow users to take their assets on the Ethereum Network, deposit them into Perq’s Sui Pod, and earn rewards on the Sui Network — all without leaving Ethereum — helping unlock billions of dollars in Ethereum-based liquidity for Sui.

It’s all part of Yelay’s mission to revolutionise the yield-earning potential within decentralised finance (DeFi) by bringing Ethereum yield to Layer 1 blockchains. Our integration with Sui marks a huge step forward in this goal. The integration of The Yield Layer within the Sui ecosystem will eventually allow users of the Sui network to stake and access yields and rewards from our partners like AAVE, Curve, Morpho, Gearbox, and Lido Finance — all without needing a bridge from or to leave Sui’s ecosystem.

Understanding PERQ Supercharged LaunchPools

PERQ, built using Yelay’s Yield Layer infrastructure, has brought its decentralised launchpools on-chain and supercharged them with DeFi yields, allowing anyone to delegate their yield bearing assets towards a project. In return, depositors receive easy and transparent token allocations, where instead of providing a bond to an actively validated service (AVS), they delegate the yield from their assets to an entire ecosystem’s launched and pre-launched projects.

Currently, Ethereum mainnet has more total value locked (TVL) than the next 50 chains combined, which is why PERQ plays a central role in our mission to bring Ethereum yield to more blockchains.

PERQ Pod for Sui: The Yelay Integration

Among the projects that will be available to earn tokens from within the Sui Pod is Yelay itself! Through the Pod, users can stake and earn $YLAY tokens as part of a basket of other Sui ecosystem projects.

Joining Yelay in the first PERQ Pod for Sui are:

Hydro, which helps online publishers fully monetise their web traffic through ‘time spent,’ reducing reliance on ads.

Ika, a sub-second Multi-Party Computation (MPC) network powering multi-chain coordination on Sui.

Native, which enables access to Bitcoin’s liquidity.

Nativerse, a universal non-custodial liquid staking layer on Bitcoin.

RCRD, a video platform where creators earn up to 100% ad revenue and users engage with video responses.

Want a slice of the action?

To get started, users can follow a simple, straightforward process:

1. Select an ecosystem Pod on PERQ — in this case, Sui.
2. Deposit Ethereum or stablecoins into the Pod and sit back as PERQ puts your tokens to work.
3. Watch as you earn rewards, airdrops and gain exposure to launched and pre-launch projects through PERQ’s Pod offerings — all from staking Ethereum-based assets.
4. Once the Sui Pod ends, rewards will be available to collect on the Sui Network, using a Sui wallet you have authorised.

Check out the PERQ Sui Pod today for exposure to Ethereum yield within the Sui ecosystem and the latest in economic restaking innovation.

As we continue to iterate on the future of decentralised finance (DeFi), our latest innovation focuses on providing our community with more tokens, boosts, and ways to earn yield. Introducing our revamped Staking Hub, which now inlcudes the brand new Yelay Rewards Portal, alongside our exciting new Membership Reward Cards!

Rewards? Tell Me More

Our Staking Hub is getting a new addition with the Yelay Rewards Portal — a technological advancement that will allow users to earn yield in a more efficient way, gain access to a new swath of tokens, and earn higher levels of boosted rewards on their staked yield. It’s all part of our next generation of DeFi staking and rewards, which will provide Yelay community members with a one-stop-shop portal for earning more while doing less.

One of the most impressive features of the new Rewards Portal is the enhanced ability to stake $YLAY tokens and earn new partner tokens and emissions. The new portal has redesigned the staking experience to be more seamless and now provides access to partner tokens like Morpho Labs, Gearbox, and Perq for easier access.

• Morpho Labs is the next-generation lending efficiency layer that allows anyone to earn yield and borrow assets while optimising rates of return.
• Gearbox is a protocol that amplifies users’ yield earning potential through leverage.
• Perq is a multichain yield powerhouse that — by leveraging Yelay’s infrastructure — provides access to pre-TGE token opportunities and helps users secure allocations in some of the most promising up-and-coming token launches.

Below are the reward amounts that will be allocated in the first batch, along with their durations:

In addition to accessing our partner tokens, the new Rewards Portal will also allow for boosted rewards for holders of our soon-to-be-released Membership Cards.

How the Yelay Rewards Portal Works

To get started, Yelay community members must first stake $YLAY tokens within the Yelay Rewards Portal. By doing so, users can earn rewards from both our emissions as well as those from our partner protocols. When $YLAY is staked, it is converted to sYLAY (staked $YLAY) and begins earning infrastructure credits (ICs), which can be used personally or sold secondhand to businesses that need access to Yelay’s infrastructure.

However, if users decide to also acquire a Yelay Membership Card, they have the opportunity to boost their earned rewards by up to 150 percent! Membership Cards provide a tiered boost depending upon how much $YLAY users stake. The more $YLAY you stake, the higher your boost earning potential.

Rewards are then re-calculated daily based on a user’s Membership Card tier and their sYLAY amount held, and can be claimed on a weekly basis on Mondays at 10AM UTC.

Yelay Membership Cards will also provide holders access to a growing ecosystem of yield-generating products, which will be continuously rolled out over the months and years to come.

What are Yelay Membership Cards?

Yelay Membership Cards are part of our new membership programme, featuring the Yield Yeti nonfungible token (NFT), which will offer additional rewards to holders. Current $YLAY token holders will receive their Membership Card NFT through an upcoming airdrop.

As previously mentioned, the launch of our brand new Yelay Rewards Portal will coincide with our first Membership Card airdrop, offering Yelay community members even more opportunities to earn rewards.

When you stake $YLAY tokens in our ecosystem, you earn a base rate of rewards. Holding a Yelay Membership Card allows you to boost those rewards by up to 150%, significantly increasing your earning potential. Think of your Membership Card as a multiplier for your earnings — the higher your card tier, the greater your reward boost.

Understanding the Membership Tiers

As more users join the Yelay community and purchase Membership Cards, card prices will appreciate, meaning early adopters are rewarded by ‘paying less’ to secure their Membership Card tier.

Here’s a breakdown of the Yelay Membership Card tiers options:

Boost: This is the percentage increase to your base rewards, which is distributed pro rata from the global pool accessible to all sYLAY holders. There is no direct correlation to the rewards amount distributed, since that depends on how many other users have also purchased a Membership Card and have staked $YLAY.

Max Supply: The total number of cards available for each tier. While Tier 1 has an unlimited supply to ensure maximum accessibility, higher tiers become increasingly scarce, with only 50 Tier 5 cards in existence.

Base Price: The starting price for each tier’s Membership Card, paid in $YLAY tokens. This is the minimum amount someone can pay for a card in each tier and the starting price for each tier.

Max Price: A card’s highest possible price in each tier. This creates a predictable price ceiling while allowing early adopters to accrue the same benefits at lower prices for getting involved in Membership Cards early.

Increment: The amount the card price increases after each purchase. For example, in Tier 2, each purchase increases the next card’s price by 10 YLAY. This means the first card costs 5,000 YLAY, the second 5,010 YLAY, and so on until reaching the max price.

Securing your Membership Card Airdrop

For current $YLAY token holders, anyone holding YLAY (up to 150,000) at the time of the initial airdrop snapshot will receive a Tier 1 Membership Card NFT during the airdrop.

Anyone holding between 150,000 and 1,000,000 YLAY at the time of the initial airdrop snapshot will receive a Tier 2 Membership Card NFT during the airdrop.

Anyone holding over 1,000,000 YLAY at the time of the initial airdrop snapshot will receive a Tier 3 Membership Card NFT.

Dynamic Pricing: Rewarding Early Adopters

The innovative pricing mechanism for our Membership Cards ensures early supporters get the best prices while maintaining sustainable value appreciation.

Here’s how it works:

1. Each tier starts at its base price.
2. Every time a card is purchased, $YLAY is burned, creating a deflationary mechanism that will lead to token appreciation, and the price for the next card increases by the increment amount.
3. Prices continue rising until reaching the tier’s maximum price.
4. Earlier buyers secure better prices, while later purchases reflect increased demand.

For example, if you’re interested in a Tier 2 card:

• The first buyer pays 5,000 YLAY
• The second pays 5,010 YLAY
• This continues until reaching the maximum price of 105,000 YLAY.

This model ensures that anyone getting in early gets the same benefits as all cardholders in that tier but for a lower entry price. It’s good to be early.

Getting Started

Ready to boost your yield potential? Here’s how to get started:

1. Visit the Yelay Rewards Portal.
2. Connect Wallet.
3. Click on ‘Rewards View’.
4. Choose your preferred tier based on your desired boost.
5. Purchase your card at the current tier price.
6. Start earning enhanced rewards on your staked $YLAY and stake your $YLAY here.

Looking Ahead

The brand new Yelay Rewards Portal signals a shift in how we think about and interact with DeFi. Built as a one-stop-shop for users’ yield earning potentials, the Yelay Rewards Portal is your ticket to earning more bang for your buck through multiple rewards streams and an exclusive, continuous list of upcoming partner integrations.

As we continue to expand and introduce new features to the Yelay ecosystem, Membership Cardholders will be perfectly positioned to take advantage of future opportunities and enhanced reward structures.

Join us in shaping the future of yield optimisation. Visit the Yelay Rewards Portal today to secure your Membership Card and maximise your rewards.

Today we announced we’re officially plugging our Yield Layer into one of the largest crypto blockchain ecosystems — Sui Network!

This integration will be rolled out across four phases, eventually allowing native Sui Network users to access yields from Ethereum-based platforms on Sui, without needing to bridge or ever leave the network.

In addition to unlocking billions of dollars in Ethereum-based liquidity, our Sui Network integration will provide access to yields from our blue-chip DeFi partners, like AAVE, Curve, Morpho, Gearbox, and Lido Finance — all part of our effort to bring Ethereum yield to Sui.

What’s more, the $YLAY token — which powers The Yield Layer and allows holders the ability to access multiple reward streams — is now tradable on Sui, making it easier than ever to enter the Yelay ecosystem.

Four Suiiiiieeet Phases

We’ll be rolling out the four Sui integration phases over the course of 2025, giving users plenty of opportunity to familiarise themselves with the Yield Layer on Sui and helping Ethereum ecosystem participants gain exposure to other chains safely and securely.

Phase 1: $YLAY/$SUI Trading Pair

For our first phase, we’re creating a trading pair of $YLAY and $SUI, which give users the ability to purchase the $YLAY token on the Sui blockchain in exchange for $SUI.

Check our community channels for further announcements.

Phase 2: Sui Pod on PERQ

For our second phase, our tech will be utilised by ecosystem partner PERQ to release a Sui Pod, which allows users to stake Ethereum-based assets that accrue rewards from multiple projects simultaneously.

Users deposit USDC on Sui to generate yield on Ethereum, which they can then withdraw on Sui without ever having to bridge or leave the Sui Network. The entire bridging process is abstracted, providing users with a seamless experience and better yield than what’s available from the native Sui pieces.

Phase 3: Live Ethereum Yields on Sui

For our fourth phase, we’ll be going live with Ethereum yields on the Sui Network. This means for users holding assets on the Sui Network, they’ll be able to stake those yields through Yelay to generate attractive yields that beat what’s currently available on Sui today.

This is the reverse of our Phase 2, where users are able to not only withdraw their yields on Sui, but can also deposit and stake for Ethereum yields on Sui as well.

Phase 4: Launch of Cross-Chain Liquidity

Our fourth phase will see us implement full cross-chain liquidity with Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) and Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).

Utilising Yelay Lite’s tech stack, users will experience a low cost going from chain A to B.

For example, users could stake $USDC on Sui but might only receive 10% yield. Whereas, if they were to stake that same $USDC on Ethereum, they might receive 20% yield. By using CCTP to bridge, the $USDC stake on Sui could go cross-chain into Ethereum where ETH yield is generated, and then goes back to Sui where it can be withdrawn.

While this is the last phase of our Suiiieet four phase rollout, it’s just the beginning of our efforts to bring Ethereum yield to Sui and to the greater Layer 1 blockchains.

Bringing Ethereum Yield to Sui

By bringing Ethereum yield to Sui, we’re helping deliver access to the best yields in DeFi — yields that typically cost hundreds of dollars in gas fees. But with our Sui Network integration, these same gas fees will soon be available for pennies on the dollar.

While traditional methods of bootstrapping liquidity cross-chain often relies heavily on bridged assets, Yelay abstracts away all of that complexity, which reduces risk for both users and the protocols themselves.

It’s a pretty “Suiweet” deal, if we do say so ourselves!

Yelay, also known as “The Yield Layer,” has officially announced its Q1 2025 roadmap.

From a groundbreaking integration with a popular L1, to the launch of an innovative retail product, to technological advancements making yield more accessible than ever, Yelay is bursting onto the stage this year, reshaping how we think about decentralised finance (DeFi) yields.

DeFAI as the Next Frontier

The future of DeFi is intelligent, and Yelay will be integral to the DeFAI boom.

Our Q1 DeFAI partnerships will establish the foundational infrastructure for artificial intelligent (AI) agents to securely access multi-chain DeFi yields, which opens up unprecedented possibilities for automated yield optimisation.

January

Buckle up because we’re kicking off the year on a strong note. Starting in January 2025, Yelay will bring Ethereum’s robust yield opportunities to one of the largest Layer 1 blockchains in the space.

This integration will enable users of this multi-billion dollar L1 to access the deep liquidity pools of Ethereum’s blue-chip protocols without having to bridge to Etheruem.

So say goodbye to high gas fees and say hello to a significant milestone in cross-chain DeFi accessibility.

The YLAY Rewards Portal Brings Path to Prosperity

January will also see the launch of Yelay’s new rewards portal that offers YLAY token holders four distinct ways to earn. Participants can earn a combination of YLAY tokens, stablecoins, and partner tokens from industry leaders like Morpho, Gearbox, and PERQ to fuel our diverse reward ecosystem.

February

Month two brings even greater excitement for yield and your portfolio.

February introduces the Yield Yeti membership cards, featuring five tiers of enhanced yield opportunities. Top-tier Yetis can access up to 150% additional yield, helping redefine how users interact with DeFi rewards programs.

We’ll have more information dropping soon on these loveable little Yetis, so stay tuned to learn how to snag one for yourself.

PERQ Pod Partnership

In a strategic collaboration, Yelay is joining forces with two major projects in a new PERQ Pod. This innovative structure allows users to earn tokens from all three projects simultaneously through yield generated from ETH or USDC deposits.

Rock Solid Retail Portal

February also marks the debut of Yelay’s brand-new retail concept.

This “buy now, pay never” model leverages yield to facilitate purchases from partner merchants, introducing an entirely new paradigm in DeFi-powered commerce.

It’s like a reward card at an ice cream shop, entirely on-chain.

March

Q1 finishes with a mighty bang, sending yield into the stratosphere. To close it out, we’ll be integrating with a major Layer 2, bringing Ethereum yield to even more significant blockchain ecosystems.

March brings with it Yelay Lite, a streamlined technical stack integrating Ethereum yields seamlessly across major blockchain ecosystems. This development significantly reduces barriers to entry for new chains looking to tap into Ethereum’s yield opportunities.

Looking Ahead

This roadmap is just a taste of what Yelay has in store for the future of DeFi (and DeFAI).

By creating a robust yield infrastructure that bridges multiple chains, empowers AI integration, and enables novel retail applications, Yelay is becoming a cornerstone of tomorrow’s decentralised finance ecosystem.

Stay tuned for specific announcements and launch dates as we enter this exciting new chapter in the Yelay story.

Yelay nodes play a crucial role in the Yelay network’s operation, security, and scalability. These nodes form the backbone of Yelay’s infrastructure, on everything from processing transactions to enabling efficient distribution of yield-generating opportunities.

Our nodes contribute computational resources and $YLAY tokens to support the platform’s operations, acting as validators, processors, and distributors of yield-generating strategies across our entire ecosystem.

Nodes Under the Hood

The Yelay nodes function in three main ways across the network:

1. Ensuring network decentralisation
2. Distributing $YLAY token emissions
3. Allocating partner tokens

Node operators must stake $YLAY tokens, meet technical requirements, and offer incentives to attract stakers. Benefits include $YLAY rewards, accelerated infrastructure credit generation, and delegation rewards.

In this way, our economic model helps align node operators’ interests with the Yelay network’s overall health through proportional reward distribution. As Yelay grows, nodes will play an increasingly important role in supporting new yield strategies, integrating with emerging decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols, and maintaining network efficiency at scale.

A Look at Infrastructure Credits

Another participant in Yelay’s node ecosystem are Infrastructure Credits (ICs), which provide the key to accessing our robust suite of smart contracts. Like Amazon AWS credits, ICs are used by businesses to pay for using our infrastructure — which helps ensure a fair and scalable system for everyone — and can be acquired in three main ways:

Companies can buy ICs directly from Yelay, allowing them to quickly integrate Yelay’s technology into their products or services.

$YLAY token holders can stake their $YLAY tokens to generate ICs. When $YLAY is staked, it is converted to sYLAY (staked YLAY) and begins earning ICs. These earned infrastructure credits can be used personally or sold secondhand to businesses that need access to Yelay’s infrastructure.

For businesses requiring a significant amount of ICs or for those looking to maximise their involvement in our ecosystem, creating a node can be a helpful option.

We’ve Got a Node, Now What?

When a business creates a node, it opens up opportunities for other $YLAY holders to stake their tokens (as sYLAY) to that node, introducing a gamification element through which node operators offer incentives to attract sYLAY from $YLAY holders.

These incentives from node operators include:

• Sharing the $YLAY tokens generated from node emissions
• Offering their own native tokens as rewards
• Providing a combination of $YLAY and native tokens as rewards

The more sYLAY a node attracts, the more ICs it generates, creating a positive feedback loop that benefits both the node operator and the stakers.

This system creates a dynamic ecosystem where $YLAY token holders have multiple options for putting their tokens to work, choosing between different nodes based on the incentives offered.

Businesses can then choose to buy ICs directly from Yelay for simplicity, or engage more deeply with the ecosystem by creating nodes to attract stakers. We believe the competition between nodes to attract stakers will drive innovation in reward structures, potentially leading to more efficient and attractive staking options over time.

By implementing this infrastructure credit system, we’re ensuring that access to our smart contracts is aligned with all the interests and participants in the node ecosystem. Whether a business needs occasional access or is deeply integrated with our technology, there’s a path to obtain the necessary ICs while contributing to the network’s growth and stability.

How Node Emissions Work

Node emissions are a crucial aspect of the Yelay ecosystem, designed to incentivise long-term participation and ensure the sustainable growth of the network. This mechanism rewards $YLAY token holders who stake their tokens to nodes, providing them with additional $YLAY tokens over time.

When staking $YLAY for sYLAY, holders can stake their $YLAY tokens to a node of their choice. In return, they receive sYLAY (staked YLAY) tokens as an emission, representing their stake in the node. Node emissions occur periodically, and new $YLAY tokens are distributed to stakers based on the proportion of sYLAY they hold.

When emitted, new $YLAY tokens are automatically locked for a minimum duration of 1 year as additional sYLAY tokens. This ensures a level of commitment from participants and helps stabilise the token supply.

Upon the lapse of the initial 1-year lock period, stakers can then choose to unlock their emitted $YLAY tokens. However, doing so incurs a deprecation (the exact rate to be determined), meaning they’ll receive less than the full amount emitted. If stakers choose to lock their emitted tokens for the full duration of 4 years, they’ll receive the entire amount of emitted $YLAY tokens without any deprecation.

The unlocking process is intentionally gradual, specifically designed to occur over time to prevent sudden supply shocks to our ecosystem.

The vo Model

This emission and unlocking structure is based on the “vo” (vote-escrowed) model, which has gained popularity in DeFi for its ability to align long-term incentives.

By incentivising longer lock-up periods, the model encourages participants to take a long-term view of their involvement in the Yelay ecosystem, and the gradual unlocking process helps maintain a stable token supply, reducing potential market volatility.

The vo emission model presents stakers with strategic choices. They must balance the potential for higher returns — derived from longer lock-up periods — against the flexibility of shorter-term access to their tokens. This dynamic creates a diverse node ecosystem of participants with varying levels of commitment and involvement.

Additional Incentives from Business-Operated Nodes

Beyond the ecosystem-wide partner token emissions, individual businesses operating our nodes can offer additional incentives using their native tokens, like choosing to allocate extra amounts of their native token specifically to users who stake $YLAY to their node. This creates a unique selling point for the node, potentially attracting more $YLAY stakers and increasing the node’s influence in the network.

Businesses can use this mechanism to distribute their token to users who are actively engaged in our ecosystem, potentially creating a more involved and loyal user base. $YLAY holders then gain exposure to a range of tokens without needing to actively trade or manage multiple positions, and stakers can potentially access tokens from new and innovative projects that are partnering with us.

The prospect of receiving various partner tokens increases the attractiveness of holding and staking $YLAY, which incentivizes businesses to become more deeply involved in our ecosystem, potentially driving further adoption and integration. In this way, partner token emissions create a win-win-win scenario for Yelay, its business partners, and $YLAY token holders.

By creating this unique value proposition, we’re positioning Yelay not just as a yield generation platform but as a gateway to a diverse array of blockchain projects and tokens. This feature significantly enhances the appeal of the $YLAY token, potentially driving greater adoption and long-term value for the entire Yelay ecosystem.

To learn more about what our ecosystem can do for your business, check out Yelay today.

We’ve already explored how $YLAY powers The Yield Layer through emissions, protocol fees, integrator rewards, and strategy provider rewards.

Now, let’s discover where these rewards actually come from by looking at the extensive network of protocols and implementations that make Yelay the most deeply integrated protocol in decentralised finance (DeFi).

With over 30 integrations across lending, decentralised exchanges (DEXs), staking, and specialised protocols, Yelay has built a comprehensive yield infrastructure that’s powering the future of DeFi.

Blue-Chip Integration Network

At the heart of Yelay’s value proposition lies its extensive network of battle-tested DeFi protocols.

These carefully curated integrations form the foundation of Yelay’s yield-generation capabilities. Through them, the protocol creates a unified layer that simplifies complex DeFi interactions while maximising yield potential.

As a resutlt, the Yelay ecosystem spans the entire DeFi landscape:

Lending Protocols

• Aave — Leading decentralised lending market with $5B+ total value locked (TVL)
• Compound — Pioneer of DeFi lending and yield generation
• Morpho — Next-gen lending efficiency layer optimising rates

DEX & Liquidity

• Curve — Stablecoin trading powerhouse enabling efficient swaps
• Convex — Yield optimisation king maximising Curve rewards

Staking Solutions

• Rocket Pool — Decentralised Ethereum (ETH) staking with lower barriers to entry
• Lido — Liquid staking pioneer enabling yield while maintaining liquidity

Specialised Protocols

• Ethena — Innovative synthetic assets expanding yield possibilities
• Gearbox — Leverage protocol amplifying yield potential
• Origin Protocol — DeFi marketplace infrastructure connecting real-world assets
• Frax Finance — Algorithmic stablecoin ecosystem providing stable yield options

Each partner integration undergoes rigorous security vetting before joining our network, with continuous monitoring and risk assessment protocols in place. This careful curation process ensures that Yelay users access only the most reliable and secure yield opportunities in DeFi.

Live Implementations

Yelay infrastructure is also powering several game-changing DeFi platforms:

PERQ

A multichain yield powerhouse, PERQ is redefining how users interact with DeFi yields. By leveraging Yelay’s infrastructure, PERQ provides access to pre-TGE token opportunities, helping you secure allocations in some of the most promising up-and-coming token launches. The platform has millions in TVL and has raised an additional tens of millions for aspiring projects, demonstrating the robust scalability of Yelay’s technology.

Armor Wallet

Allowing users to talk to their Web3 wallet like a chatbot, Armor Wallet’s AI-powered trading assistance offers non-custodial security and automated yield optimization through Yelay. Instruct native LLMs to find the best positions and automatically allocate and divest by speaking to your wallet in plain English. Armor Wallet showcases how advanced technology can enhance traditional DeFi strategies.

Wayex

One of the leading crypto exchanges in Australia, Wayex bridges the gap between digital assets and real-world spending. Their innovative implementation with Yelay connects DeFi yield to everyday crypto users via their Earn product. Wayex’s debit card functionality lets you spend your digital assets at nearly any point-of-sale terminal, showcasing how Web3 is moving toward mainstream adoption.

Community Benefits

Through its comprehensive integration network, the Yelay ecosystem delivers significant value to all participants. Users gain streamlined access to cross-protocol opportunities while benefiting from built-in risk management and portfolio diversification. The platform’s automated optimisation ensures users receive competitive yields without navigating complex protocol interactions directly.

For developers, Yelay’s infrastructure provides a robust foundation for creating new financial products, significantly reducing the technical barriers to entry for creating yield-based services. This approach has already attracted many projects to the ecosystem, creating a vibrant community of builders and users. As we saw in the recent article on the YLAY token, every integration enhances the value for $YLAY token stakers.

The Future of Yield is Here

As Yelay expands, the protocol’s value proposition strengthens through powerful network effects. Each new protocol integration and platform implementation increases the utility for all participants, creating a self-reinforcing growth cycle.

Community participation remains a core part of Yelay’s growth strategy. By investing in the ecosystem, we grow DeFi one new user at a time. Developers can dive into our SDK documentation, while users can explore our ecosystem through our live implementations of PERQ, Armor Wallet, and Wayex.

Join us in building the future of decentralised yield generation. Join us at Yelay. 🚀