# Idle Finance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/idle/  
**Website:** https://idle.finance  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Idle Finance is a decentralized yield automation protocol that has operated since 2019, enabling users and integrators to optimize yield generation across DeFi. The platform offers REST APIs for querying Best Yield and Yield Tranches pools, APY and TVL metrics, historical rates, and governance staking information. Idle aggregates yield sources across protocols such as Compound, Aave, Morpho, and Clearpool, and supports multiple chains including Ethereum, Polygon, Polygon zkEVM, and Optimism.

## Kin Score — 36.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 64.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 50.0 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Idle Finance Polygon zkEVM API** — Idle Finance REST API endpoint for Polygon zkEVM network, providing pool and TVL data for Yield Tranches vaults deployed on Polygon zkEVM.
- **Idle Finance Optimism API** — Idle Finance REST API endpoint for the Optimism network, providing pool and TVL data for Yield Tranches vaults deployed on Optimism.
- **Idle Finance Pools API** — Best Yield and Yield Tranches vault pool data
- **Idle Finance Rates API** — Historical daily yield rate data for Best Yield vaults
- **Idle Finance TVL API** — Total value locked metrics per underlying token

## Agentic access (1)

- **Idle Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (2)

- **Idle Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Idle Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

DeFi, Yield Optimization, Finance, Crypto, Staking, Governance, TVL, APY

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/idle/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.