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🏛️ The Managed Fund Approach to Generating Bitcoin Yield

A conversation with the fund managers of @syphercapital

In this episode, we sit down with Steve Han and Michael Song of Sypher Capital to discuss how serious Bitcoin fund managers are approaching BTC-denominated yield for their LPs.

Topics Discussed:
0:00 - Managed BTC yield vs direct protocol deployment
4:15 - Changes in the Space the Last Year
6:35 - Sypher Capital Origin Story
9:30 - Assessing On-Chain vs Off-Chain Opportunities 13:50 - Performing Due Dilligence
20:42 - Lessons Operating Fund Last 1.5+ years
22:50 - Creating the Perfect Yield Product
25:25 - Updating the BitcoinYield 5-Point Safety Framework
29:32 - What Innovations Are Exciting
32:00 -Tokenization
40:30 - Tax Implications

Watch the 45-minute conversation below 👇

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@jakob_btc Appreciate the shout. Big fans of the thoughtfulness into @HermeticaFi

Lots of work for us to be the absolute definitive place for everything bitcoin yield related 🚀

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Really like what @bitcoin_yield is doing.

Every emerging market needs people willing to publish independent data. Without it, everything runs on anecdotes.

With it, you get benchmarks, better questions, and better-informed capital.

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Last week, @krakenfx  launched a Bitcoin Vault with up to 2.5% BTC-denominated rewards.

BTC is wrapped to kBTC on Ink, deposited into a Veda vault, and curated by Sentora across onchain lending markets.

worth noting:

- variable APY
- 5-day withdrawal wait
- 25% performance fee on earnings
- BTC rewards, BTC price exposure

The easy UX and massive distribution of centralized exchanges is coming to BTC yield.

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Bitcoin yield is splitting into a few distinct markets:

1. BTC-paid income (trading activity)
2. token-paid incentives (emissions)
3. volatility-driven vault returns (market making)
4. treasury-company BTC-per-share accretion (securities)
5. managed fund / structured product exposure 

Which one do you find most interesting?

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Note: Hermetica is currently at capacity. We have begun the 7-day count to remove them from the daily chart if capacity does not open.

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The Top BitcoinYield Strategies Today 📈

🔸Paid in BTC:
@HermeticaFi hBTC Vault: 4.37%
@AmbossTech Magma: 3.86%
@Lombard_Finance Earn: 2.73%
@SolvProtocol BTC+: 2.10%
@ZestProtocol: 1.60%

🎪 Paid in ALTs:
@Starknet BTC Staking: 2.85%
@babylonlabs_io Staking: 0.04%

🏦 BTC-Denominated Managed Funds:
@syphercapital Fund: 4.90%
@CoinbaseInsto Fund: 4.00%

See real-time data for all tracked products at https://t.co/rqWmlLPshd

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Steve Han made the cleanest case for why institutional BTC yield will not be purely on-chain overnight:

On-chain is the better transparency experience.

It is also unforgiving if you make an operational mistake.

That tradeoff explains why managed products exist. Different holders are optimizing for different risks.

Direct protocol users want control and instant verification.

Institutional allocators want reporting, process, diligence, and fewer ways for an internal mistake to become a permanent loss.

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STRC-linked yield is not native BTC yield.

It is issuer credit exposure showing up with a Bitcoin badge.

That was one of the best points in the Sypher Capital interview when talking about evaluating risk with a Wall Street mindset.

If you are evaluating a tokenized STRC product, smart contract risk is only the first layer.

You also have to underwrite MicroStrategy:

financials
capital stack
repayment priority
duration
liquidity
recovery path
The wrapper may be on-chain. The risk is still credit.

On-chain native investors are going to need accounting and credit-analysis muscles as RWAs move into Bitcoin yield portfolios.

Or read https://t.co/rqWmlLOUrF as we expand how we cover these developments.

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Most yield products have a scale issue.

Too much BTC too fast, something breaks.

What has @yieldbasis creator @newmichwill identified as the blockers for more capacity.

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From our Q1 Stacks BTC Yield Report:

Stacks users earned an estimated ~9.27 BTC through Dual Stacking in Q1 2026.

Zest users earned the most at ~6.84 BTC.

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A simple way to hold two competing Bitcoin yield ideas at once:

If you're content with Bitcoin's CAGR, sit in cold storage and sleep well. That's a legitimate, high-performing strategy.

If you want yield, carve out frontier capital — a slice you can afford to have at risk — and go learn the protocols with it. Start small. Understand the slash conditions, the redemption paths, the actual source of the return.

"Yield is a lie" and "deploy your whole stack into a 20% vault" are both lazy. The work lives in between, reading https://t.co/rqWmlLOUrF https://t.co/rqWmlLOUrF.

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@MezoNetwork Sound Yield for Sound Money.

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@Dogetoshi I'm Hype about BTC.

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@Cara_Delevi @BitcoinCoderBob https://t.co/udL6INnzBI

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@vaultsfyi has an early dashboard to track https://t.co/tnIS0wN6YJ

@SentoraHQ, the strategy curator, mentioned on their blog yesterday they have a public dashboard coming soon.

"Sentora will soon publish onchain data dashboards to support with verification of vault positions and flows."

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@vaultsfyi has an early dashboard to track https://t.co/tnIS0wN6YJ

@SentoraHQ, the strategy curator, mentioned on their blog yesterday they have a public dashboard coming soon.

"Sentora will soon publish onchain data dashboards to support with verification of vault positions and flows."

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YIELD UPDATE: @krakenfx Bitcoin Vaults cross 1k in BTC TVL 2 days after public launch.

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@BitcoinCoderBob lol. Thats a better fight to have.

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@BitcoinCoderBob Noted 🗒️✍️

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