Powering the Next Era of Stablecoin Yield: EO Now Supports Upshift Tokenized Vaults

Jul 1, 2025
As the DeFi ecosystem matures, it’s becoming clear that the future won’t be won by simple primitives like lending and swapping. It will be won by infrastructure that supports composability, yield & trustless access to real-world asset value. That’s why today’s announcement matters. EO is now powering Upshift’s vaults tokens: upUSDC & hgETH. This technical milestone is unlocking stablecoin capital for everyone.

Upshift’s Yield Innovation

Upshift is reimagining vaults from the ground up. Rather than offering basic lending loops or farming strategies, Upshift provides users access to yield-generation techniques typically reserved for top DeFi quant funds and institutions. Upshift vaults are integrated with August, the leading DeFi trading platform for institutions. This means vault strategies are executed with the highest level of performance and security, and the vault strategists may use products such as options to hedge vault positions. Strategies include:

  • Basis trades (cash and carry arbitrage)
  • Hedged concentrated liquidity provisioning
  • Cross-venue yield optimization
  • Delta-neutral farming

These strategies are deployed into vaults, and depositors can access the same high yields as institutional funds. On top of this, depositors receive receipt tokens; upUSDC & hgETH that represent a claim on the yield-bearing principal.

What makes this powerful is composability: these tokens can be used in Pendle, Morpho, Euler, and more, but only if they have reliable, on-chain price feeds.

That’s where EO comes in.

Now Live: Blockchain Oracle Feeds for upUSDC & hgETH

EO has launched decentralized, cryptoeconomically-secured price feeds for Upshift’s key vault tokens.

These feeds enable:

→ Accurate real-time valuation of yield-bearing assets

→ Composability across DeFi, with standard Chainlink adapter

→ Secure collateral usage in lending and derivatives

→ Trustless integration, with cryptographic guarantees via EO’s modular operator framework

For protocols integrating with Upshift vault tokens, this means no bespoke pricing logic, no trust assumptions, and no delays. All price data is updated through a decentralized, stake-backed network of 100+ operators using EO’s open blockchain oracle stack.

The Stablecoin Genius Act: Yield as a Right, Not a Privilege

In Washington, conversations around stablecoins are heating up. The Stablecoin ‘Genius Act’, a new policy framework under discussion in the U.S., seeks to bring regulatory clarity to fiat-backed and algorithmic stablecoins. It defines these assets as core infrastructure to the digital economy - on par with traditional banking rails.

Trillions in stablecoins sit idle; earning nothing, while real-world inflation eats away at their value. Meanwhile, institutions with the right access are able to deploy capital into high-yield strategies across venues.

This is a systemic gap. And it’s where EO and Upshift together offer a breakthrough.

  • Upshift makes stablecoins productive by default; every upUSDC token earns by lending to institutional borrowers via the vault.
  • EO ensures those tokens can be used as collateral, priced correctly, and trusted throughout DeFi to earn even more yield.

The result: a stablecoin economy that’s more capital efficient, more accessible and more resilient, ready for the regulatory spotlight.

Unlocking DeFi’s Institutional Core

EO and Upshift aren’t just improving DeFi UX; they’re laying the rails for a more comprehensive, yield-generating financial system.

  • Upshift vaults turn stablecoins into high-yield instruments.
  • EO blockchain oracles make those instruments composable, safe, and usable across DeFi.
  • Together, they power a future where every stablecoin can earn, move, and grow trustlessly.

This changes what’s possible for stablecoin holders, DAOs, treasuries, fintechs, and eventually; regulated financial institutions.

Make DeFi Great Again

The current state of DeFi is fragmented. The best strategies are gated, the safest data is centralized and the most promising innovations are siloed.

EO and Upshift are breaking that mold. By enabling permissionless access to institutional-grade yield and delivering the decentralized infrastructure to support it, we’re closing the gap between where stablecoins are today; and what they’re truly capable of.

For developers interested in implementing EO solutions, comprehensive documentation and support resources are available:

John Broadley