Where to park short term savings

Now that the Feds have hiked interest rates, where is the best place for short term savings? I get 0% at my bank and have some CDs that earn .30 - .70%. I purchased my first short term treasury bond with a 2% yield to maturity. I would like to start laddering these treasury bonds so one or two come due a month. I'm not sure how much to keep in savings at 0%.

What does everyone here do?

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I use a few different accounts for short term savings. Marcus pays .85% on savings accounts right now i believe. Robinhood pays 1% on cash in your account. Also use blockfi, crypto dot com, and gemini for stablecoin interest around 7%-10%. FTX Earn pays 8% on first 10k in your account (even on USD cash). Also started buying short term corporate bond funds VCSH and VUSB in the last 3 weeks or so after bonds seemed to finally get a bid after a few months of falling. And depending on your definition of short term, I also have 10k in iBonds at a blended rate of ~8.3% for the next year. Stairs app by groundfloor pays 6% on money you lend to them and it can be withdrawn at any time. 

 

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