You can earn yield on your USDC without transferring it from your account. Under the hood you’re depositing into an Aave vault, and then liquidating that position just-in-time as you send money. This way your yield bearing assets function like any other token you hold—swap, bridge, and send in a single transaction.
Either from the Dashboard or an account detail page, hit Earn and select the amount to deposit. Right now, you can only deposit USDC on Base. We’ll support other tokens soon.
You’ll then see a new Positions section appear above your Token balances on the right.
Behind the scenes your deposit flows into the Aave USDC Base Vault—an ERC‑4626 vault that plugs directly into the Aave v3 Pool on Base. Instead of handling aUSDC yourself, you receive vault shares that represent your portion of the pooled USDC.
What this means for you:
Everything happens natively on Base—no bridges, no wrapped assets—giving you direct exposure to Aave’s proven lending market while keeping UX simple.
For a deeper look under the hood see the Aave Vault docs.
We chose USDC on Base because this is the token most used by Teams users today. We chose Aave because it is the most battle-tested lending protocol on Ethereum with $50B in net deposits. We plan to roll out support for other assets and yield bearing protocols soon—please reach out if there are specific ones you’re interested in. If you want yield on your ETH today, we recommend swapping into Lido’s Wrapped Staked ETH (wstETH).
Depositing into Aave is still lending, and lending carries risk. Key considerations: