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Yearn USDC

yNM-USDC
EthereumOn peg1
Curated by Yearn·Inception 2026-01-16T21:05:23.000Z·Guardian
V2
Open on Morpho
Net APY3.21%
-0.42%30d 3.62%
Trend down
TVL$111.66K
-0.00%Capacity $0
Trend up
Utilization0%
Underutilized
Risk score
27
Moderate
Market 26
·Loan demand 50
Complexity35Standard strategy
Liquidity60/100
Instant redemption available
Performance fee0%No curator cut
AI vault read

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.

What this vault does

You deposit USDC and Yearn lends it out to borrowers who post wstETH (staked Ethereum) or WBTC as collateral. Borrowers pay interest on the loan, and that interest is passed to you as APY. The vault is fully deployed—no idle cash sitting around.

Who runs it

Yearn, running a concentrated play on Ethereum staking collateral (wstETH represents 95% of lending volume).

Where the yield comes from

The 3.21% APY comes from borrowing demand against wstETH and WBTC. Both markets are running at 86% utilization, meaning most of the deposited USDC is actively lent out.

What could break it

Concentration risk in wstETH (95% of loans)—if staked Ethereum price falls 14% or more, collateral hits the liquidation threshold (86% LLTV) and forced selling begins. USDC itself is healthy with no depeg signals.

Who this is for

Good fit for conservative allocators seeking low-complexity stablecoin yield if comfortable with Ethereum staking collateral concentration and 0% idle buffer in a small vault.

Loan-asset peg health · USDC
USDC is trading within normal range. Both market spot and Chainlink agree this vault's loan asset is on peg — no peg risk affecting NAV right now.
On peg1/100
Spot (market)$0.99973 bps below peg · CoinGecko
Oracle (Chainlink)$0.99973 bps below peg · What Morpho liquidates against
Spot ↔ oracle gap0 bpsSources agree
Score · 1/100
max(price, vault health) · saturates at 200 bps
Risk decomposition

How the composite risk score breaks down. Every number traces to an explicit input — /methodology documents each factor's formula.

mainstream27/100
Warning floorfloor
0
Structuralweight 28%
35+9.8
Liquidationweight 20%
30+6.0
Yield anomalyweight 20%
0+0.0
Concentrationweight 12%
50+6.0
Liquidityweight 10%
0+0.0
Maturityweight 10%
56+5.6
Depeg floorfloor
0
Composite = max(Σ weighted + floors). Warning and depeg floors are hard minimums; the weighted sum of the structural factors is the base. A floor highlighted in amber means it is what determines the final score — the protocol or peg signals are louder than our structural model.
Plain English explanationWritten by VaultScanner research · model card · last update 2026-05-12
What this vault actually does

Yearn USDC vault lends its underlying assets only to blue-chip markets. Optimization across markets is handled automatically and supply caps are set based on various factors and continuously monitored by the Yearn team as well.

Where the yield comes from

Morpho V2 vault — wraps downstream Morpho markets and V1 vaults via adapters.

Why they may not

Some V2 adapters point at Morpho Blue markets directly; their underlying market detail isn't resolvable in the universe-level fetch, so this vault carries a V2 opacity surcharge in the risk model.

Hidden exposure map

What this vault is actually exposed to — including dependencies that are not visible from the strategy name.

USDC
100%
StablecoinLoan asset supplied by the vault.
Reading this map. Direct exposures are the assets the vault holds or lends against. Indirect dependencies (Tab 3) include the protocols that mint those assets, the oracles pricing them, and the bridges that move them. An incident at any indirect dependency can damage the vault even when the direct collateral looks healthy.
Allocation breakdown

Every market the vault has supplied into, with current LTV, LLTV, oracle, and IRM. Idle balances are listed explicitly.

Markets2+ idle buffer
wstETH / USDC95.0%
WBTC / USDC5.0%
MarketProtocolAllocationLTV / LLTVUtilizationOracleIRM
wstETH / USDCMorpho Blue (via V2 adapter)
95.0%$106.07K
73% / 86.0%12.9 pts headroom
86%
WBTC / USDCMorpho Blue (via V2 adapter)
5.0%$5.58K
73% / 86.0%12.9 pts headroom
86%
Stress scenarios

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.

USDC depeg 12%
unlikely
computed

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).

−12% × 100% exposed × 100% pass-through (loan-asset shock)
-12.0%
Recovery 7–14 days
100% exposed
V2 adapter routing failure
rare
computed

V2 vaults route through adapters into downstream venues. A misbehaving adapter (paused, drained, or pointing at a compromised target) can lock or mismark a portion of the vault until governance acts.

−4% × 100% (adapter-stack-wide assumption; refined when per-adapter shares are available)
-4.0%
Recovery operational
100% exposed
$50M same-day redemption
possible
computed

Vault has $0M idle buffer (100% of $0M TVL). $50M of the $50M request queues; the redeemer takes a ~0.50% forced-exit discount weighted across collateral mix plus 0-day TVM cost. $50M of the request exceeds the vault's $0M TVL and cannot be redeemed at all.

queued 100% of $50M × (0.50% forced-exit discount + 0.00% TVM over 0.0 days at 5.0% rate)
-0.5%
Recovery 0–14 days (queue depth)
100% exposed
Governance & configuration

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.

Vault contractMetaMorpho v1 on Morpho Blue
Chain
Ethereum
CuratorRisk team setting market allocations
OwnerCan change curator, guardian, and timelock (after delay)
GuardianCan pause and revoke allocations if compromised
not configured
TimelockDelay before owner-initiated parameter changes take effect
none
Performance feeCurator's cut of generated yield
0.00%
Fee recipientAddress that collects the performance fee
not configured
Skim recipientReceives stray non-loan-asset tokens swept from the vault
not configured
Deployed4 mos on-chain
Jan 16, 2026
One-click redeem
available
Morpho app

Market parameters (2)

Oracle, IRM, and LLTV per Morpho Blue market the vault routes into. Click an address to inspect the contract on a block explorer.
MarketLLTVUtilOracleIRM
wstETH / USDC86.0%86%
WBTC / USDC86.0%86%
Activity

Curator and parameter changes detected by VaultScanner's snapshot diff. Refreshed every 6 hours.

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Historical analytics

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.

APY range0.00% – 107.12%
trailing 180d
APY volatility (σ)9.28 pts
standard deviation
Max APY drawdownNaN%
peak-to-trough
APY trend+0.00 pts
180d delta