What Yield Basis governs
Yield Basis (YB) is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 413th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than being money itself, Yield Basis is a claim on a financial protocol. Its worth tracks the fees, liquidity, and usage of the application beneath it far more than any monetary narrative.
Yield Basis (YB) is a decentralized finance (DeFi) token that focuses on providing yield farming and liquidity solutions to its users. Its ecosystem aims to optimize yield generation for cryptocurrency investors.
How value is supposed to accrue
The economic question is whether Yield Basis captures the value its protocol creates. Total value locked and fee revenue are the inputs; the token's design decides how much of that reaches holders.
Background & fundamentals
In sector terms it is most often filed under DeFi, Staking, and Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20).
Where Yield Basis sits in the market
At $0.1228, Yield Basis carries a market capitalization of $10.80M. Around $4.56M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 42.27% of the float — unusually high, the kind of churn that accompanies major news or speculative spikes.
Only ~70% of the 1B-YB maximum supply is circulating today, so emissions remain a live factor in price discovery. YB remains -86% beneath its all-time high of $0.8548, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close. Measured from its all-time low of $0.0929, YB is up +32%.
What the price history shows
The tape currently reads 24-hour -3.59%, 7-day +15.22%, 30-day +0.65%. Across roughly the last 230 days of daily candles, YB endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 86% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Yield Basis in the High-volatility band — it has been actively trading, with daily moves that would be unusual in traditional equities. Over the last 30 days the move totals +0.65%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a DeFi token like Yield Basis
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches YB holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether YB is load-bearing (governance over real value, fee rights) or decorative.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.
