How we make money
Most directories bury this. Ours is the whole reason you can trust the rest of the site, so it lives one click from every page.
The short version
EarnDesk earns in two ways: issuers can pay to be featured, and some links are referral links. Both are labelled everywhere they appear. Nothing else on the site is for sale.
Paid placement — and what it does change
An issuer or protocol can pay to have their asset pinned to the top of its category with a ★ Featured badge. That is a genuine advantage and we are not going to pretend otherwise: a featured asset sits above others that may pay a better rate.
So the rules around it are strict:
- Every paid slot carries the Featured label. Always, everywhere.
- Featured assets are pinned within their category, never smuggled into one they don't belong in.
- Sort by any column and the ordering below the featured rows is purely that column.
- A featured asset's own page says so at the top.
What is never for sale
- The numbers. APY, TVL and price come from DeFiLlama and CoinGecko. We do not adjust them, ever, for anyone.
- The terms. If a rate expires on a date, that date is what we publish, whether or not it flatters the issuer.
- The facts. What backs an asset, who issues it, what chain it runs on, and any incident history.
- Editorial and news. Completely walled off. Paying for placement buys no coverage and no influence over coverage.
- Removal. Nobody can pay to have an unflattering fact, or a competitor, taken down.
Referral links
The Earn → buttons are referral links, marked ref. If you sign up through one, we may be paid a commission by that provider. It costs you nothing and you do not get a worse rate for using it.
Whether a provider has a referral programme has no bearing on whether we list them or where they rank. Plenty of assets here earn us nothing at all, and they are ranked exactly the same way.
Conflicts of interest
EarnDesk is operated by an employee of Kinesis Money. KAU, KAG and Kinesis Earn are listed here on exactly the same terms as every other asset, and are subject to the same rules.
In plain terms: the person who runs this site has a day job at a company whose products are listed on it. That is a real conflict, and pretending otherwise would be worse than declaring it. What we do about it:
- Kinesis assets get no rank advantage, no special treatment, and no exemption from anything on this page.
- When a Kinesis product is a paid placement, it carries the Featured badge like any other.
- Kinesis has no say in EarnDesk's editorial, its data, or its rankings.
- If we write about Kinesis in the Newsroom, this relationship is restated in that piece.
Judge the site on whether it holds to this. If you ever find somewhere it doesn't, we would genuinely rather hear about it than not.
What we are not
EarnDesk is a directory and a news service. We are not a broker, not an adviser, and not regulated by the FCA or anyone else. We never hold, pool, manage or touch your money — every link sends you to the provider, who deals with you directly. Nothing here is a personal recommendation.
Advertising with us
If you issue a yield-bearing product and want a featured slot, email info@earndesk.io. You should know before you ask that everything on this page applies to you too, including the parts you may not like.
Telling us we've got it wrong
If a rate is stale, a term is wrong, or something here reads as less independent than it claims to be, say so: info@earndesk.io. Corrections are free and we would rather make them than not.