Artificial greenback developer Ethena Labs acquired the inexperienced mild for a USDeFRAX liquidity pool with Frax Finance to diversify FRAX stablecoin yield.
The Singularity Roadmap proposal from Ethena Labs was approved and has enabled the protocols to create a USDeFRAX POL with a $250 million ceiling on the defi stablecoin alternate Curve.
Transferring ahead, USDe’s issuer and Frax Finance plan to ship dense on-chain greenback liquidity regardless of considerations that Ethena Labs’ product bears putting similarities to Terraform’s algorithmic stablecoin UST.
Fantom developer Andre Cronje pointed to USDe threat stemming from the asset’s peg system, which depends upon collateralized positions to keep up parity with the U.S. greenback. The mechanism is akin to UST’s design, a decentralized structure that ultimately crippled Terra’s $60 billion ecosystem.
After the artificial greenback creator onboarded Bitcoin (BTC) to assist preserve its peg, CryptoQuant founder Ki Younger Ju echoed Cronje’s considerations concerning a possible crypto contagion. UST and Terraform additionally tapped BTC as a reserve asset earlier than the defi undertaking crashed in Might 2022.
Ethena Labs’ USDe crosses $2b market cap
Though USDe could also be thought of a contentious defi stablecoin, the asset has drawn consumer demand and crossed $2 billion in provide since launching in February. Per DefiLlama, Ethena Labs provided its U.S. dollar-pegged token solely on Ethereum’s mainnet.
The protocol suffered a $290,000 security exploit almost a month after its debut, however the situation was swiftly resolved. Consultants couldn’t decide the underlying vulnerability then, and Ethena Labs has superior to increase USDe integration throughout.
The stablecoin supplier airdropped its governance token ENA with 750 million free tokens for early supporters and individuals.