Bitrue: Institutions pivot from yield farming to real yield

Bitrue Research Institute, the research division of the Bitrue crypto exchange, published an 18-page June 2026 report titled Why Institutions Are Ditching Yield Farming for Real Yield that finds institutional capital shifting away from inflationary yield farming toward real-yield strategies.

The report says the inflationary token models that were common in decentralized finance from 2020 to 2022 have lost appeal for institutional investors. It documents movement into revenue-generating activities that tie returns to real-world economic value, including yields from tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), interest spread revenue from lending, and other cash-flow-based returns.

Analysts include data, metrics and forward projections to show how these revenue sources can produce returns under volatile market conditions. The report defines real-yield strategies as those that rely on identifiable income streams such as borrower interest paid to lenders, dividends from underlying assets, or fees generated by services, rather than token inflation or reward emissions.

The report highlights specific channels for real yield. Tokenized RWAs convert income-producing assets into blockchain-native instruments that pay out based on underlying cash flows. Lending and credit markets generate returns from the gap between borrower rates and lender yields. The report notes these approaches can make returns easier to verify and fit more readily into institutional risk and accounting frameworks.

The June 2026 report is available for free on Bitrue’s website. Bitrue Research Institute said it will continue to publish monthly reports. Bitrue launched in July 2018 and the exchange supports more than 700 cryptocurrencies. The platform offers spot trading, futures, over-the-counter services, staking, copy trading and Alpha trading. Bitrue also lists staking and investment products with advertised annualized rates up to 30% and is ranked among larger exchanges by XRP trading volume.

Andri Fauzan Adziima, Research Lead at Bitrue, wrote in the report: “The era of unsustainable inflationary yield farming is giving way to real yield strategies backed by verifiable cash flows and real-world economic activity.”