Pillars and factors

On purpose, AtlasYield does not publish exact weights, formulas, or thresholds: a score you can game is a score no one should trust. The factors below are described at concept level.

Pillar 1 — Yield

Not just how much a vault pays, but how trustworthy that yield is.

Factor	What it measures
Yield level	Current payout, read in the context of its asset class — a high headline number is weighed against the risk taken to earn it.
APY stability	How steady the yield has been; wild week-to-week swings read as lower quality.
APY persistence	Whether the yield has endured rather than spiking briefly and collapsing.
Yield source	Where the return actually comes from — real lending demand, trading fees, or temporary incentives — and how legible that source is.

Pillar 2 — Safety

How likely the vault is to lose principal to a failure, an exploit, or bad governance.

Factor	What it measures
Audit quality	Depth and credibility of the protocol’s security reviews — who did them and how thorough they were.
Protocol maturity	Time live holding real money — evidence that survives no other test.
TVL depth (safety)	How much capital sits in the vault; deeper pools are harder to manipulate.
TVL stability	Whether deposits are steady or prone to sudden flight.
Admin topology	How much power admins and multisigs hold — upgradeability, timelocks, who can move funds.
Chain security	The settlement assurance of the chain underneath the vault — whether it settles its own state, who operates the sequencer, and whether you keep a permissionless exit if that operator censors or halts.
Exploit history	Whether the protocol has been broken before. Works as a multiplier on the whole pillar.

Factor	What it measures
Withdrawal type	Instant on demand, or through a queue, cooldown, or lock-up.
TVL depth (liquidity)	Whether the pool is deep enough to exit a real position without moving the price against yourself.

Factor

What it measures

Withdrawal type

Instant on demand, or through a queue, cooldown, or lock-up.

TVL depth (liquidity)

Whether the pool is deep enough to exit a real position without moving the price against yourself.

Pillar 4 — Sustainability

Whether the yield is built to last — or quietly living on borrowed time.

Factor	What it measures
Emission dependency	How much of the return leans on token incentives that can be cut at any time.
Asset risk	The risk of the underlying asset itself — even a flawless vault inherits the fate of what it holds.
Utilization health	For lending markets, whether utilization sits in a healthy band rather than pinned dangerously high.

Overview

The Atlas Score

The Atlas Engine

Asset flow

Monitoring

Legal

Pillar 1 — Yield

Pillar 2 — Safety

Pillar 3 — Liquidity

Pillar 4 — Sustainability

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​Pillar 2 — Safety

​Pillar 3 — Liquidity

​Pillar 4 — Sustainability

Pillar 1 — Yield

Pillar 2 — Safety

Pillar 3 — Liquidity

Pillar 4 — Sustainability