Yield Farming: How to Earn Crypto by Lending Your Assets

When you hear yield farming, a way to earn passive income in crypto by locking up your coins in decentralized finance protocols. Also known as liquidity mining, it’s not magic—it’s just lending your crypto to others in exchange for rewards. Unlike saving money in a bank, you’re putting your coins to work on open networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, or Polygon, where smart contracts automatically pay you interest, trading fees, or extra tokens.

Most liquidity pools, collections of crypto assets paired together to enable trading on decentralized exchanges are the backbone of yield farming. You deposit two tokens—say, ETH and USDC—into a pool, and the protocol uses them to help others trade. In return, you get a share of the fees from those trades, plus bonus tokens from the platform itself. But here’s the catch: if one token’s price swings wildly, you can lose value even if you earn rewards. That’s called impermanent loss, and it’s why some people lose money even while "earning."

Not all DeFi platforms, decentralized applications that let you lend, borrow, or trade crypto without a middleman are safe. Some are legit, built by teams with audits and locked funds. Others? They vanish overnight. You’ll find both in the posts below—some platforms that paid out for months, others that turned into ghost projects the second they got your coins. And while staking, locking up crypto to help secure a blockchain network and earning rewards in return is simpler and often safer, yield farming usually offers higher returns—if you’re willing to take more risk.

What you’ll see here aren’t theory lessons. These are real reviews of platforms people actually used—some profitable, some disastrous. You’ll find out why SkullSwap and Kalata Protocol got warnings, why STON.fi v2 works for TON users but not for big traders, and how airdrops like SUNI or CHIHUA might look like free money but come with zero value. Some posts show you how to spot scams before you deposit a cent. Others break down why even "legit" farms can collapse when liquidity dries up or the team disappears. This isn’t about chasing the highest APY. It’s about understanding what’s behind the numbers.