ethena12
$ENA
MCAP852.09M
-0.68%

what's ethena?

Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol built on Ethereum that offers a crypto-native stablecoin called USDe, which is backed by delta-hedged positions in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets using perpetual futures contracts, alongside holdings in liquid stables like USDC and USDT. The protocol aims to provide a scalable, decentralized alternative to traditional fiat-backed stablecoins, enabling users to earn yield through sUSDe, a staked version of USDe that captures funding rates from hedging strategies. Key features include full backing of USDe reserves, integration across multiple chains like Solana and Sui, and recent expansions such as the launch of USDtb backed by BlackRock's BUIDL fund for enhanced institutional appeal. Ethena also powers whitelabel stablecoins like JupUSD in partnership with Jupiter on Solana, targeting DeFi and payments ecosystems. The native governance token ENA allows holders to participate in protocol decisions and capture value from network growth.

Snapshot

Ethena cut futures exposure to 11%, holds $2.83B assets, and is featured on Aragon's OTF dashboard.

contract

ethereum

mantle

metis-andromeda

optimistic-ethereum

fraxtal

manta-pacific

kava

zircuit

swellchain

zksync

blast

morph-l2

the-open-network

scroll

mode

base

avalanche

arbitrum-one

12H ago
TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduced perpetual futures exposure from 90% to 11% of total position structure.

13H ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

ENA is featured on the OTF (Ownership and Token Fundamentals) dashboard by AragonProject as of 2026-04-14, providing investors with analysis of ownership and value accrual mechanisms.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Holds $2.83B of assets with custodians offering limited transparency on effective exposure, in addition to onchain holdings.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Holds 161M USDTB onchain in USDe-related wallets, representing 18.5% of total USDTB supply.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Custodied $1.01B in total aggregate value of ETH, SOL, PYUSD, USDC, USDT, and USDb assets with Anchorage Digital Bank as of March 18, 2026.

1D ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated as a supported stablecoin (USDe) for funding trading wallets in Mantle's ClawHack AI agent trading competition on the Byreal RealClaw platform, running from April 15, 2026 (00:00 UTC) to April 30, 2026 (23:59 UTC).

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Inverse Finance for DOLA/sUSDe liquidity gauge incentives, with 94K DOLA (~$93.5K) deposited on Votemarket for gauge voting.

PARTNERSHIP

USDe is integrated as base collateral on Ethereal DEX, a perpetual decentralized exchange.

4D ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Included in Grayscale's Q2 2026 "Assets Under Consideration" list.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Paid out $2.39 million in yield through sUSDe during the week ending April 10, 2026.

6D ago
OPINION SPECULATION

Expected to benefit from new product rollouts according to trader speculation.

MARKET ACTIVITY

ENA token increased 14% in price, leading top market movers.

1W ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Sui network through suiUSDe, a stablecoin backed by Ethena that includes yield vaults.

PARTNERSHIP

Maple Institutional is providing 5.4% APY as a yield source for Ethena's sUSDe collateral.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $11 billion in deposits across its protocol markets.

PARTNERSHIP

partnered with Alchemy Pay and Anchorage Digital

MARKET ACTIVITY

Users are borrowing PYUSD on Morpho to fund leverage loops, with PYUSD becoming the third largest stablecoin funding source for 5-14x leveraged DeFi carry trades behind USDC and USDT.

MARKET ACTIVITY

USDE-USD market on dYdX is being wound down following the approval of Governance Proposal 374 with 91.07% YES votes.

RISK ALERT

Smart contract admin keys allow a multi-sig to upgrade contracts and potentially steal user funds, posing a security risk.

MARKET ACTIVITY

ENA is the most traded stablecoin issuer token.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated into OlympusDAO's OIP-195 proposal for deploying 10M USDe into Aave liquid leverage strategy with yield directed to OlympusDAO's buyback program.

2W ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Integrated USDe on Kraken Pro, allowing users to convert USD to USDe and earn up to 4.25% APY with no lockups.

PARTNERSHIP

Provides sticky liquidity to Ethena as part of yield generation strategies for the Avant Protocol stablecoin system.

UNCATEGORIZED

Integrated with Matcha for sUSDe, syrupUSDT, wrsETH, and GHO trading on Mantle.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Fluid DEX processes up to 93% of the trading volume for the sUSDe/USDT pool.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Over 85% of sUSDe's underlying exposure is allocated to T-Bills as of March 2026.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Unlocks $15.79M representing 2.18% of circulating supply on April 5, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Q1 2026 revenue declined 32% amid user decline.

TEAM UPDATE

Hiring for a Financial Associate in Portugal and a remote, full-time Head of Security.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Unlocked 40.63M ENA to Foundation March 2, 2026, and $8.63M week of March 31 to April 6, 2026. BASED token airdrop claim available for sENA holders after March 30, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated over $50 million in revenue on March 26, 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

ENA token price increased 2% on March 26, 2026, leading top movers in the cryptocurrency market.

3W ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Whale (0x04d8) withdrew 43.49M ENA tokens worth $4.07M from Binance on 2026-03-23.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Registers $100M sUSDe outflow from Aave Ethereum as users shift to Aave on Mantle, where borrowing is available at 0.71% APY (versus 2.5% on Ethereum).

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated into Fluid's new USD vault which runs looped strategies on yield-bearing stablecoins including sUSDe.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Privy to enable sUSDe rewards that accrue automatically within Privy wallets.

1M ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Whale 58bro.eth was liquidated on ENA short positions during a market rally on March 17, 2026, and subsequently deposited $7.81M USDC into Hyperliquid to open additional short positions.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A tracked public figure built a $22M+ short position on ENA at 10x leverage, currently showing +$483K unrealized profit and +2,823% ROI on Hyperliquid.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Aave increased its supply cap for PT srUSDe to $200 million, reaching $136 million in supply within a few hours after the increase.

ONCHAIN METRICS

sUSDe ranks as the third-largest Mantle asset by volume or value on Aave.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Replaced sUSDe unstaking from fixed 7-day cooldown to dynamic 1-7 day cooldown tied to USDe reserve liquidity, currently at 1 day.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Achieved $28 million in liquidity depth for srUSDe at 4.6-5.0% fixed APY on Pendle.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $69M sUSDe liquidity depth at 3.5-3.7% fixed APY on Pendle, yielding ~3.5% from funding rates, ETH staking, and treasury reserves. Shifted focus toward institutional lending and structured credit, moving away from previous basis trade funding strategy, and proposes expanding USDe reserves to include institutional lending (Maple, Coinbase, Anchorage), high quality RWAs, prime lending, and whitelabel stablecoins backed by USDtb and BlackRock's BUIDL.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Achieved $65 million in liquidity depth for jrUSDe at 6.3-6.5% fixed APY on Pendle.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Received 4.47M ENA tokens (valued at approximately $453.57K) from the Ethena Labs Vesting contract to OKX Ventures on 2026-03-09, bringing their total holdings to 10.84M ENA (worth approximately $1.12M).

MARKET ACTIVITY

sSUSDe is now available as collateral in Tapioca DAO's mint markets, enabling users to deposit sSUSDe and borrow against it.

PARTNERSHIP

Added USDe and sUSDe PTs (June 2026 maturity) to Aave, enabling borrowing support and crosschain operations via Pendle Finance for farming on BNB Chain and redeeming on Plasma.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Deposited 6,500 ETH (approximately $12.58M) into Binance in the past 10 hours.

ONCHAIN METRICS

USDe cross-chain supply reached over $1.1 billion.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated into Composer, a multi-chain coordination layer enabling atomic transactions across 18 protocols including Aave, Morpho, Euler, and Chainlink.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Reya for a 3-week trading competition offering 16,000,000 REYA tokens (0.20% of total supply) in rewards, running through 2026-03-27.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched USDe/OUSD liquidity pool on Curve Finance with a 30x USDe points multiplier.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Wayfinder AI as an adapter in their SDK, enabling access to Ethena data through their Delta Lab queryable repository and backtesting framework.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Featured in Reya's livestream on 2026-03-06 discussing RLP and Ethena; held AMA discussing USDe perpetuals, prediction markets, and USDe margin rewards.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Wallets linked to Jez San moved 43.53M ENA ($4.71M) to new wallets two days before March 5, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached USDe market cap peak of $7.0B on March 10, 2026; sits at $5.877B as of April 1, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

sUSDe achieved over $1 billion in monthly volume.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated USDe/sUSDe into Reya's LP Pool (RLP) on 2026-03-04, generating dual yield; uses USDC as an active reserve component for Re protocol's reUSD, providing instant redemptions and shifting collateral to liquid stablecoins when funding rates fall below T-bills.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Identified as a top gainer among crypto majors on March 4, 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated $96.15M in revenue during Q4 2025.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Has not yet activated the ENA token fee switch that would distribute protocol revenue to ENA holders.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Accounts for approximately 45% of all yield-bearing stablecoin rewards paid industry-wide as of February 2025.

TECH EVENT

Launched USDtb stablecoin with Anchorage Digital and BlackRock's BUIDL reserve; proposes USDe reserve overhaul to add real-world assets, equity, commodity basis, institutional, and prime lending. Spark allocated funds to Anchorage to earn 6.5% APY for CeFi yield diversification.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Offers PT-srUSDe/USDe on Strata Markets, earning 29.11% APY. Junior tranche yields 7.3%; senior tranche loops on Aave for up to 25%.

PARTNERSHIP

WLFI deployed $168.4M including ENA in 3 days via Wildcat Fi, offering 20x ethena rewards, 10% APR, and 200k ethereal points.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Unlocked 171 million ENA tokens ($18.35M) on March 5, 2026, representing 2.24% of circulating supply.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed USDe on Wildcat through Kappa Labs in an open-term market, offering 1,000,000 USDe capacity at 10% APR, routing liquidity to Ethereal DEX.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Added to the Coinbase 50 Index (COIN50), a benchmark tracking the top 50 eligible digital assets listed on Coinbase Exchange, in Q1 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Vitalik Buterin sold 19,268 ETH (worth $38.77 million) at an average price of $2,012 over a 23-day period ending on February 26, 2026, converting the ETH into multiple Ethereum DeFi stablecoins including USDtb, GHO, EURC, PYUSD, and LUSD.

MARKET ACTIVITY

USDe is available for swapping on Relay Protocol, which has processed over $73M in volume and 47K+ transactions with 3-second average fills.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Distributed vePENDLE rewards for January including approximately 730k USDT plus sENA and RESOLV airdrops

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated stablecoin infrastructure directly into Conduit, a platform commanding 55% market share in Ethereum rollup deployments, enabling any Conduit-built rollup to deploy a native stablecoin on day one.

PARTNERSHIP

Launched USDm stablecoin on MegaETH day 0 as its native stablecoin, with MegaETH Foundation collecting rewards for buybacks.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Generated $666.82 million in fees last year, with $32.32 million becoming direct protocol revenue.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached 811,000+ active users and achieved integration across 24 blockchains.

ONCHAIN METRICS

sUSDe has paid $40.31M in cumulative yield, representing 18.85% of total yield-bearing stablecoin payouts.

ONCHAIN METRICS

USDe market cap reached $122.6M on Mantle as of Q4 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Deployed $791 million, a multi-year low at 71% of its 2025 trough level, down from $1 billion, actively farming DeFi yields across PYUSD, RLUSD, and lending protocols.

ONCHAIN METRICS

sUSDe yields contracted, driven by basis trades declining over 60% from February 8 to March 10, 2026, from $2 billion to $800 million, and decreased funding rates; LP-sUSDe yields on Pendle range 3.5%-4.6%, with sUSDe APR at 3.44%.

TEAM UPDATE

Hiring full-time, remote Financial Associate (Portugal, €50K-€75K) and Head of Security.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Felix Protocol launched USDE-USDH perpetual contract with 20x maximum leverage and $7.5 million initial open interest cap.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Reduced LST (liquid staking token) exposure to low single digits in late 2025 and increased stable allocation including USDC and treasury-backed USDtb.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Achieved approximately 19% average sUSDe APY in 2024.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Strata Money to offer 30x Ethena Sats, 30x Strata points, and Ethereal Points for participants in Strata's yield program, with Strata's TGE scheduled for April 2026. Users deposit USDe to earn sUSDe through risk-tranched pools totaling $161M TVL.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Reached $65 million TVL on Ethereal DEX.

TOKEN ECONOMICS

Pays 3.25% yield to USDe holders weekly.

PARTNERSHIP

Partnered with Ethereal DEX to provide backdated Ethena Exchange Points to Ethereal users.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Revenue increased by 690% over the 30-day period ending February 17, 2026.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Hyena to offer Lunar New Year packages ranging from 0.8 to 888 USDe for users.

PARTNERSHIP

Allocated capital to both Aave and Morpho protocols for USDC deployment.

PARTNERSHIP

USDe is integrated with LayerZero OFT standard for cross-chain transfers.

2M ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

A frxUSD/USDe liquidity pool with KyberNetwork yields 14% APR and regularly processes daily trading volume exceeding its total value locked.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Identified as a top gainer among major cryptocurrencies on February 12, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

A whale trader (wallet 0x418a) held a short position for 79 days, generating a $9.5M gain.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Offers USDe flexible subscription product on HTX with up to 15% APY yield.

ONCHAIN METRICS

sUSDe integration on Aptos has driven $750M+ in cumulative trading volume across ThalaSwap v2 and v3.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched USDe minting and redemption on HTX exchange on 2026-02-10.

PARTNERSHIP

Launched USDm stablecoin for MegaETH, backed by USDtb, which is backed by BlackRock's BUIDL fund, with reserve yield flowing into MEGA buybacks and used to subsidize sequencer fees.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Arthur Hayes sold 15.8M ENA tokens at $0.13, purchased at $0.23, realizing a $1.54M loss.

VISIBILITY EVENT

HTX exchange launched a promotional campaign offering $10,000 in rewards for USDe trading and user acquisition activities.