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# Introduction

**Higher yields demand higher craft.**

ForgeYields is a cross-chain yield aggregator for the frontier — strategies blue-chip aggregators won't touch, underwritten like structured credit.

<figure><img src="/files/LPdNerGwhKkB1V86RAXa" alt="ForgeYields — Higher yields demand higher craft. Cross-chain yield frontier, underwritten like structured credit."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Why ForgeYields

Yield aggregators give you safe-list returns. Anonymous farms ask you to take their word for it.

ForgeYields gives you the frontier — with the discipline of structured credit. Tracking dozens of protocols. Rebalancing across chains as incentives shift. Underwriting every position before deposit. That's a full-time job — ForgeYields runs all of it for you, continuously, on-chain.

<figure><img src="/files/QoLmmOvs4QIxfG1WyXs1" alt="ForgeYields positioning in the DeFi yield landscape — Y-axis: yield ceiling. X-axis: no wrapper vs wrapper vault. Existing wrappers (Morpho-Steakhouse, Morpho-Gauntlet, Yearn V3) cluster below the wrapper-side yield ceiling. ForgeYields is the only wrapper above the ceiling, methodology-gated by Hallmark."><figcaption><p>Where ForgeYields sits in the landscape. Same wrapper-level discipline as Yearn / Morpho-curated, but Hallmark's published methodology lets us safely include the frontier strategies the others won't.</p></figcaption></figure>

## What you get

* **Diversified frontier yields** — selected and rebalanced across chains.
* **Underwritten by** [**Hallmark**](/forge-docs/hallmark/overview.md) — every strategy passes a quantitative bar before deposit.
* **Non-custodial** — you hold [fyTokens](/forge-docs/basics/fytokens.md); relayers act through an [on-chain Merkle-validated allow-list](/forge-docs/how-it-works/overall.md).
* **Verifiable** — every score is [published](/forge-docs/hallmark/transparency.md), every allocator action logged in the real-time [Atomic Transparency Ledger](/forge-docs/basics/atomic-transparency-ledger.md).
* **No lockups** — mint once, auto-compound, redeem on demand.
* **Clear performance** — live [Projected vs Realized yield](/forge-docs/basics/performance-tracking.md) tracking.

## Built for

DeFi users — retail and institutional — who want real yield without the manual work. If you'd rather hold a yield-bearing token than rebalance positions across half a dozen chains, this is for you.

## Where to start

* **Understand the system** → [How it works — step by step](/forge-docs/how-it-works/step-by-steps.md)
* **Read the methodology** → [Hallmark — Overview](/forge-docs/hallmark/overview.md)
* **See a worked score** → [How a score is built](/forge-docs/hallmark/example-score.md)
* **Start depositing** → [Connect to Forge](/forge-docs/user-guide/connect-to-forge.md)