UltraYield USDC
Plain-English summary of this vault — what it does, who runs it, where the yield comes from, and what could break it. Generated from the same deterministic inputs shown elsewhere on this page; the numbers are the source, this is just the explanation.
You deposit USDC on Arbitrum. The vault lends it out on Morpho Blue to borrowers who pledge Bitcoin (90% of the vault), staked Ether (8%), or sUSDS stablecoin (1%) as collateral. Borrowers pay interest—set by supply and demand on each market—and you earn that interest plus occasional protocol rewards.
UltraYield runs a concentrated Bitcoin-backed lending book; 90% of capital is locked into WBTC borrowing markets.
The 3.71% APY breaks into 3.15% from borrower interest on those three markets and 0.56% from Morpho incentives and curator rebates active on them. Zero cash sits idle; 100% is deployed.
Bitcoin price drop is the dominant risk—if WBTC falls ~14% from here, collateral hits the liquidation threshold (86% LLTV) and forced selling begins. The vault is fully deployed with no buffer, so any redemption spike forces pro-rata liquidations. The staked-Ether and stablecoin tranches add modest diversity but are dwarfed by Bitcoin exposure.
Good fit for an allocator comfortable with directional Bitcoin price risk and seeking low-complexity stablecoin yields; avoid if you need redemption liquidity on short notice or hold a bearish Bitcoin view.
How the composite risk score breaks down. Every number traces to an explicit input — /methodology documents each factor's formula.
The UltraYield USDC vault curated by the UltraYield team provides diversified exposure to various Morpho markets by lending USDC to achieve an optimized risk-adjusted return
What you are actually getting paid for, expressed as a share of net APY.
Interest paid by borrowers on Morpho Blue markets the vault supplies into.
Estimated boost from Morpho-side rewards programs and curator rebates active on these markets.
The honest version. Every structural failure mode this vault is exposed to, ranked by severity. If you want to know whether to invest, start here.
Cap-weighted utilization is 86.5%, leaving little idle buffer. Large same-day redemptions may queue behind active loan repayments.
Weighted LLTV across markets is 86.1%. Sharp collateral drawdowns can trigger cascading liquidations faster than vault parameters can be adjusted.
What this vault is actually exposed to — including dependencies that are not visible from the strategy name.
Every market the vault has supplied into, with current LTV, LLTV, oracle, and IRM. Idle balances are listed explicitly.
Modeled NAV impact under historical and hypothetical tail events. Each impact = − (shock magnitude) × (vault exposure) × (pass-through). Hover the calculator icon for the per-scenario formula.
Tail-case: a vulnerability surfaces in Morpho Blue that affects the vault's largest single market (90% of TVL). Modeled at 50% loss on that exposure; full vault is not assumed at risk since markets are isolated.
Curator routes into a market that develops bad debt or an oracle break. Worst single position is 90.5% of TVL; top-3 concentration is 100%. Modeled at 50% bad-debt recovery on the worst position.
March 2023 SVB episode: USDC traded as low as $0.88 before banking exposure was clarified. Mark-to-market loss on 100% of vault TVL (the loan asset is USDC).
100% of TVL is in markets running >85% utilization. Redemption requests on that slice queue until borrowers repay; remaining LPs absorb a small forced-exit discount.
Vault has $0M idle buffer (14% of $0M TVL). $50M of the $50M request queues; the redeemer takes a ~0.54% forced-exit discount weighted across collateral mix plus 12-day TVM cost. $50M of the request exceeds the vault's $0M TVL and cannot be redeemed at all.
48h sequencer halt on Arbitrum. Collateral drifts while liquidations are frozen; the LLTV buffer absorbs liquidation-clearable moves, the excess accrues as bad debt. Plus a small forced-exit discount on the 100% of TVL sitting in markets above 85% utilization. Total -0.56% NAV loss.
On-chain contracts, control surface, and per-market parameters. The diligence checklist surface — every value here is what an allocator needs to copy into a memo before sizing a deposit.
Market parameters (3)
Oracle, IRM, and LLTV per Morpho Blue market the vault routes into. Click an address to inspect the contract on a block explorer.Curator and parameter changes detected by VaultScanner's snapshot diff. Refreshed every 6 hours.
180 trailing days. APY, TVL, utilization, and an APY drawdown view to show how the vault has actually behaved — not just where it sits today.