2026's Most Wild DeFi Yield Strategies: No Betting on Explosive Growth, Just Harvesting On-Chain Speculation Fees

Avoid the risk of meme coins going to zero and find a new way to reap the benefits of MemeFi.

Written by: Ignas | DeFi Research
Compiled by: Saoirse, Foresight News

It feels like the DeFi summer is back again. However, most high-risk speculators are busy losing money on meme coins rather than making profits from the losses of these speculators.

Speculators are driving up meme coins through FOMO, generating millions of dollars in trading fees daily. But they do not act as liquidity providers; they only engage in high-risk trading. If you completely avoid this kind of speculation, it can actually be a good opportunity.

Moreover, the Pons launchpad has ignited meme coins directly corresponding to tokenized stock issuances (AI/NVDA, BONER/HIMS, MOO/MU). These trading pairs create significant arbitrage opportunities between liquidity pools and regular stock/USDG pools, leading to a continuous stream of fees, which is exactly the opportunity I am optimistic about.

You don’t need to hold meme coins to profit from the losses of these speculators. I find this approach quite interesting. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

Impressive Data

Robinhood Chain launched in July. Although it has been online for a short time, the data performance is impressive:

• Total Locked Value (TVL): $757 million
• DEX Trading Volume: $1.66 billion (second only to Solana's $2.1 billion, higher than Ethereum's $1.37 billion)
• 24-hour Application Fees: $16.98 million
• Stablecoin Size: $833 million, Cross-chain Locked Value: $2.6 billion
• Perpetual Contract Trading Volume: $387 million

$757 million in total locked value generates $17 million in application fees daily.

This corresponds to an annualized APR of 819%, equivalent to 2.243% daily. If compounded, the nominal APY reaches as high as 328,000%.

• (Note: The 328,000% APY is a theoretical compounded value derived from the extreme fee proportion of a small pool on a single day. This yield rate is based on instantaneous historical data and is not sustainable.)*

Crypto player @0xSammy shared a set of data: tokenized stocks generated 13 million transactions in a single day, with the number of wallet addresses holding tokenized stocks reaching 203,000, a 46% increase in three days.

Why Are the Annualized Returns Here So Tempting?

There are two main reasons.

1. Nobody wants to provide liquidity (Nobody LPs). FOMO integrated with Robinhood Chain in July. This is a meme coin trading application that does not have liquidity pool functionality.

2. Robinhood Wallet and FOMO also support direct credit card purchases of meme coins. The Block reported that JPMorgan has requested Visa to investigate this. This portion of trading volume comes entirely from users who will never become liquidity providers.

If you experienced the last DeFi summer, you already possess all the skills needed for yield farming. The new batch of crypto speculators entering the market becomes our source of income.

The size of the liquidity pool is too small for institutional funds to enter. When I entered, the RBLX/USDG liquidity pool had a TVL of only $168,000, yet the trading volume reached $6.2 million. The daily fees accounted for as much as 11% of the total locked value!

Institutions cannot invest $5 million into a pool with only $168,000 locked. This is an excellent stage for retail speculators like you and me.

MemeFi Is the Best Liquidity Market-Making Business on This Chain

@0xSammy has reported that there are currently 22 targets, resulting in 27 pairs of meme coins and tokenized stock trading pairs. For example, AI/NVDA, MOO/MU, BONER/HIMS, NUDES/SNAP, LIGMA/FIG.

BONER alone accounts for 81% of the HIMS supply on-chain. Players are attempting to short-squeeze, but it is essentially just a circulation squeeze.

Data from scopl.live shows that some meme-stock liquidity pools are the highest in terms of 24-hour fees on-chain:

• AI/NVDA: $447,000
• AI/WETH: $340,000
• UBIK/GLD: $321,000

The annualized fees alone can reach 1329%.

You don’t need to hold meme coins at all, avoiding impermanent loss or the asset crash caused by KOLs dumping. Every transaction of AI bought through NVDA, every time BONER drives HIMS to reprice, arbitrage bots will complete price corrections in the stock/USDG pool, continuously generating fees.

My currently preferred liquidity pools are: HOOD/USDG, NVDA/USDG, RBLX/USDG, DJT/USDG.

You can check the complete list of meme coin trading pairs in the table link in the article.

Indeed, the experience accumulated during the 2020 DeFi summer is your greatest advantage. But we are no longer mining those worthless cat and dog meme coins; instead, we are leveraging the growth of the tokenized stock sector to let the speculators of meme coins create profits for us.

I love these high-risk meme coin traders.

Mining Tools List

Revert: My favorite LP tool. You don’t have to follow the speculative trading of meme coins; you can directly follow the performance of excellent liquidity providers. You can filter LPs by APR, profit and loss, creation time, and other dimensions. You need to establish your own screening criteria and conduct more tests.

I really like that it supports single-coin liquidity and can automatically rebalance (though the platform seems to add a small fee).

scopl.live: A pool discovery tool to check real-time fee APR. I’m not sure about the quality of project development, but it’s practical for finding new pools and serves as an alternative to Revert.

vfat.tools: An old tool for reward mining, suitable for token reward mining. If you want to do Uniswap-type LP mining, its usefulness is limited.

Merkl: The 2026 version of vfat, specifically for incentivized Uniswap positions. Filter chain selection for Robinhood. Currently, the stock-token Uniswap v4 order book, in addition to fees, Merkl also offers over 100% additional annual rewards.

Leveraging AI for Yield Farming

AI has significantly lowered the barriers. Using Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, or your preferred large model can help you become a better mining participant.

AI can help you keep track of total ROI, discover new liquidity pools, and build a unified position dashboard across multiple platforms. In the AI era, there’s no reason not to master yield farming.

At the time of publishing this article, HOOD was only 1.5% away from my cost basis, which is quite good.