How to Maximize Your USDh

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Hermetica Labs
February 18, 2025

With USDh, opportunities to earn and grow your assets are plentiful.

Whether you’re holding, supplying, or providing liquidity, USDh offers several ways to maximize your benefits. Let’s explore how you can make the most of it.

Provide USDh Liquidity

You can directly shape the future of Bitcoin DeFi and earn rewards in the process by providing liquidity to USDh pools on Bitflow and Velar.

It’s simple — just:

🔸 Fund your Stacks wallet with USDh, STX, and aeUSDC
🔸 Provide USDh liquidity on Bitflow or Velar
🔸 Earn

If you provide USDh liquidity to Bitflow, you earn 30x Hermetica Points and 1x Bitflow Points per day. On Velar you earn 30x Hermetica Points per day, a portion of $VELAR, and fees earned from traders. Read our How to Provide USDh Liquidity article to get started today.

DEXs aren’t the only way to provide USDh liquidity. On Zest you can Supply USDh to earn supply APY, 20x Hermetica Points, and 2x Zest Points.

Supply on Zest

DEXs aren’t the only way to put USDh to work. By supplying USDh on Zest Protocol, you can earn yields while contributing to the growth of Bitcoin-native DeFi.

🔹 Earn 5%-15% supply APY
🔹 20x Hermetica Points per day
🔹 2x Zest Points per day

Supplying USDh on Zest not only generates yield but also strengthens lending markets, increasing capital efficiency in Bitcoin DeFi. A simple way to earn yield while keeping your USDh productive.

Borrow on Zest

This is one of our favorites. One of the most attractive ways to utilize USDh is through DeFi yield loops.

Borrow USDh on Zest against your sBTC, STX, and stSTX collateral to set-up a trade that earns attractive yield without taking risk on price.

  1. Supply sBTC, STX, or stSTX as collateral to Zest

  2. Borrow USDh against it

  3. Stake USDh on Hermetica to earn the up to 25% APY staking yield

If your supply yield with the staking yield is lower than your borrow cost, you earn a profit without any exposure to price. Just make sure you manage that liquidation level effectively.

Check out the full guide in our How to Deploy USDh on Zest article.

Hold and Stake USDh

Don’t overlook the simplest way to maximize your USDh–holding and staking. It’s straightforward, but provides solid returns.

Just buy USDh on Runes or Stacks and stake it on our app and you earn:

🔸 5x Hermetica Points per day for holding USDh
🔸 2x Hermetica Points per day for holding sUSDh
🔸 Up to 25% APY on any staked USDh

Don’t miss out on the easiest way to maximize your USDh and start earning right away. Check out our guides on buying and staking USDh.

About Hermetica

Hermetica is the creator of USDh, the first Bitcoin-backed, yield-bearing synthetic dollar on Bitcoin L1 and L2s. Earn up to 25% on your dollars without leaving Bitcoin. Hermetica is a crypto veteran team with previous experience at Kraken.