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Stablecoin Earn Product Rule Cheat Sheet
Filter on two conditions — "must I be able to withdraw anytime" and "can I accept being converted" — and what's left is what you can consider. This table compares rules, not today's APY.
This table deliberately carries no APY figures. Rates change daily and anything copied down is stale within days; the rules below rarely change, and they're what your decision should actually rest on.
| Product | Withdraw anytime | Principal returned as | How interest works | The main cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Yes | Original coin | Accrues daily, floating APY | Lowest APY, and it moves every day |
| Locked | Depends on the product | Original coin | Fixed at subscription, paid daily | Early exit deducts rewards already paid; where it isn't allowed, you wait for maturity |
| Staking / launch rewards | No | Usually the original coin | Rewards mostly in a project token | Reward value moves with the token price |
| Dual Investment | No | May be converted to another coin | Effectively an option premium | Principal can be converted near the top |
Nothing fits the current conditions. Relax one of them and try again, or keep this money out of Earn entirely.
How to read this table, and what each column means
Why there's no APY
Because it changes, and fast. The public figures we found while researching disagreed with each other wildly: different bases, different moments, different product types. Any number hard-coded onto the page becomes misleading within days. So only rules go here; for the number, look at what Binance shows at the time.
How firm is the "withdraw anytime" column
Only Flexible says yes, and that yes refers to the product design under normal conditions, not a contractual guarantee; in extreme markets the platform has the right to manage redemptions, which is in the user agreement. Also remember that redemption lands in your Spot wallet, still two steps (selling and withdrawing) away from spendable money.
Why "principal returned as" matters most
It's the most fundamental difference between the four. The first two return the coin you started with; the second two may return something else. Staking rewards come as a project token, and Dual Investment converts your principal at the agreed price when triggered. Read this column before the APY, never the other way round.
How to read "the main cost"
Every tier has a cost, just in a different form: Flexible's is the lowest and most variable APY, Locked's is liquidity, staking's is an uncertain reward value, and Dual Investment's is that the principal can become a different asset. None of them is free.
What to do once you've filtered
Filtering only narrows the field. Next, open the platform's page and look at these tiers' current APYs and caps, then turn the spread into an amount. If the difference is small enough not to care about, take the most liquid one.
Who it's for
People facing a full screen of Earn products for the first time with no idea where to start. Also people already using them who want to check they haven't confused the product types.
A reminder: a filtered result isn't a recommendation. No Earn product is principal-protected, and platform risk and the stablecoin's own risk aren't within this table's scope. Those are covered in real depeg cases and what the platform does with your deposits.
For the full write-up on every tier in one go, read the complete guide to stablecoin yield.