Yield Engine
Your USDT and USDC is automatically deployed into market-neutral DeFi strategies, generating real, sustainable yield without manual management or directional market risk.
Earn up to 20% base APY, boosted by ALTU rewards and spend it globally with the altura card.
Altura combines a high-performance yield engine with everyday money tools, so your capital earns automatically, moves freely and is always ready to spend.
Your USDT and USDC is automatically deployed into market-neutral DeFi strategies, generating real, sustainable yield without manual management or directional market risk.
Hold and move funds across crypto and fiat accounts. On-ramp and off-ramp between USDT and EUR, USD, or GBP IBANs, fast, affordable, and without leaving the app.
Spend globally using your balance, while your capital continues to earn in the background. Pay all over the world in-store and online
One interface for your entire balance. Track yield, accounts, transfers, and card spending, from a single, clean dashboard.
Altura generates stablecoin yield through diversified, non-directional strategies - designed to compound regardless of market conditions. No printed tokens. No liquidity mining incentives. Just organic yield from real market activity.
Capture funding and basis spreads across spot, perpetual, and dated futures positions. Neutral to price direction by design.
Earn spreads on trading venues by quoting both sides of the order book. Continuous hedging keeps positions market-neutral.
Capture price inefficiencies in physical gold through short delivery-versus-payment cycles. Insured and tracked on-chain.
Understand how Altura earns, protects, moves, and unlocks your money.
The previous article in this series explained how deposits, PPS, and withdrawals work inside the Altura vault. If you haven’t read it yet, start there. This one picks up the next question: how do you know it’s actually working the way it claims to? Every protocol in DeFi calls itself transparent, and the word has lost most of its meaning. Being deployed on-chain doesn’t automatically make a vault verifiable. Plenty of protocols are on-chain and still opaque, because the data that actually matte
The first article in this series explained what Altura is and where the yield comes from. This one answers the next set of questions: what happens when you actually deposit? How does your balance grow? And what does it look like when you want your capital back? Altura went live on mainnet during one of the worst stretches of market conditions in months. While most of DeFi saw yields compress, the vault’s PPS kept climbing. That’s the number this whole article is about, because it’s the only num
Yield in DeFi has a credibility problem. Most protocols advertise double-digit APYs, but when you look under the hood, the returns come from the same place: newly minted tokens. The protocol prints them, hands them to depositors, and calls it yield. Strip the emissions away and the base return is often single digits, sometimes close to zero. The yield isn’t earned. It’s subsidized. This is the model behind the majority of yield products on the market today. It performed well in 2021. It’s been