Excited to share what we've been working on for a while in stealth with our new neobank mobile experience built on Ethena's existing product set. This is one of the few product categories that have emerged in the last couple of years that I think has a genuine chance of breaking out of the crypto native user set to hundreds of millions of people. While some of the existing neobanking products today are impressive, and I personally use a few of them daily, we think the addressable market here is the hundreds of millions of users not already operating onchain which haven't been served yet. Rebuilding the mobile banking product experience on stablecoin and blockchain rails simply produces a better product experience for users with near instant and zero cost transfers and settlements, higher savings rates leveraging DeFi financial primitives and importantly these products can be global by default almost immediately. Ethena sits in a unique position as the first scaled dollar issuer vertically integrated with the consumer application experience. If you don't own the yield engine and stablecoin issuance, you are at a structural disadvantage from a revenue perspective to provide the most competitive offering across the entire product suite. For Ethena, being able to build the direction relationship with end users for our existing savings products, rather than just via exchange and fintech integrations, let's us control the destiny of our distribution channels in a better way than we have to date. We think the neobanking app form factor is the best way to achieve this. 90% of financial services for most normal people is just send, save and spend. We hope Ethena Pay will be the best place for you to do this.

The growth of equity and commodity linked perpetuals has been the most exciting development in the space in the last year, with RWA perpetuals already growing to >50% of Hyperliquid crypto volumes last month, and aggregate Binance RWA volume at 2x BTC-USDT last month. High conviction view that this is one of the very few 100x left in the space, and I expect both open interest and volume to exceed crypto perpetuals across all venues within the next ~24 months. For Ethena this is the most exciting opportunity since we started: effectively expanding the underlying asset base from ~$2.5tn of crypto to >$120tn of equities. USDe peaked at ~$15b on crypto alone and we expect by the end of this next cycle the opportunity here will unlock scaling to a multiple of that number. While we would have liked to do this earlier, we took a cautious approach to what was a nascent market and waited until we saw deep, liquid markets with a data history we could study before moving into the opportunity at scale. Over the next weeks we will begin deployments into equity basis across the venues where we already execute crypto basis with the same battled tested infrastructure used to date. Become more clear this cycle that the very best businesses in crypto aren't just levered to the crypto cycle but can be flexible enough to reposition their businesses every 4 years when crypto is in the gutter. Going forward the growth and through-the-cycle resilience of Ethena will be tied more closely to basis on these markets rather than crypto alone.

We've never seen a stronger pipeline of fintechs and brokerages looking to integrate onchain earn functionality into their product offerings. Ethena's product suite will be the primary collateral on the new Robinhood crypto earn feature, with more to come.

Excited to announce our collaboration with @Blackrock. →Integration of USDe into BlackRock's Aladdin platform →BUIDL as the primary asset for our whitelabel product →Liquidity facility on BlackRock tokenized products The integration of USDe on Aladdin provides unique institutional access for the >$20 trillion of assets managed by financial institutions on Aladdin.

StablecoinX Inc. @stablecoin_x is now trading on Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker "USDE". As the first treasury company focusing on Ethena, StablecoinX gives public-market investors direct access to the most important emerging trend in all of finance: the secular growth of digital dollars.

The first product in the Ethena ✦ Coinbase collaboration is now live. The @SteakhouseFi High Yield Vault has officially launched on @Coinbase, powered by USDe on @Morpho. Coinbase's user base now has access to a best in class savings rate through the vault, live in the Coinbase App for users in the U.S. and abroad.

As Ethena broadens its scope into RWAs excited to bring our first partner to market for USDe backing outside of BlackRock BUIDL with Janus Henderson JAAA. Importantly, as we continue to partner with asset managers like Janus Henderson as allocators into their products, we simultaneously broaden USDe distribution into their own institutional distribution channels we wouldn't otherwise have access to.

Excited to partner with Coinbase for the first time to support their dollar savings products. The upcoming integration next week will be the first time Ethena products are available for their 100m+ user base. Given the evolving nature of the Clarity Act, we expect further potential tailwinds for onchain native products like USDe from idle balances on exchanges, and Ethena is well positioned to support this transition.

stoked to announce that im joining @ethena to lead a new product which will be revealed publicly soon after my last job, i thought i would take a longer time off but some opportunities don't wait for you there is a very short time window where you need to act or the opportunity may not be there in that form a few months later this was the case here everything i'm passionate about, reunited in one product all the stars aligned for that industry segment to explode over the next few years everything i've done in crypto so far, all the skills i acquired seem like preparation for this next chapter more soon

Ethena has been working closely with affected parties this week in a supporting capacity and is participating with a contribution into @aave's coordinated DeFi relief effort following the rsETH related incident. As part of a broader recovery initiative alongside other ecosystem participants, Ethena's contribution will go towards restoring the rsETH backing in support of an orderly resolution for stakeholders. Aavethena.

Agree with this and would also encourage all asset issuers to consider rate limits at the mint & redemption level, as well as a custom rate limit configuration on top of LZ OFTs. We built a solution on top of the standard OFT to throttle cross chain transfers at $10m per hour for every DVN, in addition to the $10m per block rate limit on the mint contract. The former would have prevented Kelp, the latter Resolv. In a disaster scenario where the LZ DVN is compromised you can at least contain the damage to $10m per chain per hour before stepping in to shut down transfers entirely. Yes it’s a slightly annoying inconvenience for users 99% of the time, but a worthwhile trade off to avoid going to zero. If you would like support on adding the same custom OFT configuration please reach out directly to myself or the team.

Out of an abundance of caution we are temporarily pausing our LayerZero OFT bridges from Ethereum mainnet until the root cause of the rsETH incident has been identified. We expect the pause to last ~6 hours and will provide updates on this temporary pause as we receive them. To reiterate, we can confirm Ethena has no exposure to rsETH, and remains >101.0% overcollatereralised. Proof of reserves are typically provided on a weekly basis but we will be providing a refreshed version in the next few hours given the existing circumstances.

Since 10/10 Ethena was poorly positioned for what has been a material regime change. In the last few months we have been building out the infrastructure to securely access alternate sources of safe and scalable collateral to better position the business for these periods of downturn. This is an important piece of work which should have been done a long while ago, but now positions USDe backing to experience less rate volatility during periods of suppressed crypto native interest rates. Going forward, once approved by the independent risk committee, USDe will have access to: -Basis on non crypto assets including commodities and equities -Institutional triparty collateralized lending via @coinbase @krakenfx @Anchorage and others -Prime lending across CeFi and @HyperliquidX -Liquid high quality non-tbill RWA exposures Each of the above represent multi-billion capacity opportunities with that will now sit alongside the existing USDe collateral base to improve the product resilience through the cycle.

Ethena has no ADL "deals". Never has. ADL risk has been in the risk section of our docs since day one: ADL implementation varies by exchange, but generally follow a similar waterfall of applying ADL to accounts with the: i) highest leverage ii) highest roe/ unrealised pnl In contrast to others, Ethena sweeps pnl daily and runs zero leverage. It is therefore considered one of the lowest risk accounts on the exchange and sits at the bottom of the ADL waterfall as a result. As far as we are aware, there have not been any ADLs on BTC or ETH on the venues Ethena executes since 2018 on OKX. The vast majority of the backing sits in BTC and ETH on venues with a 8yr+ track record of not applying ADL to these assets, including on 10/10. Ethena has no special ADL deals, just basic risk management.

With all respect to Star, this story is candidly ridiculous. Star is trying to claim that the root cause of 10/10 was Binance creating an Ethena yield campaign, causing USDe to get overleveraged from traders looping it on Binance, which eventually unwound because of a small price move. The problems with this story: 1) The timing of this story doesn't line up. BTC bottomed a full 30 minutes before USDe price was affected on Binance. So USDe clearly can't have *caused* the liquidation cascade. This is clearly misplacing cause and effect. 2) USDe price diverged ONLY on Binance, it did not diverge on other venues. But the liquidation spiral was happening everywhere. So if the USDe "depeg" did not propagate across the market, it can't explain how *every single exchange* saw huge wipeouts. This is very much unlike Terra, which depegged everywhere and caused the same damage across every venue. So maybe you could hedge Star's argument by saying "OK, maybe Ethena didn't *cause* 10/10, but it amplified it." But even as an amplifier, USDe fails the test because it didn't propagate cross-exchange. We know what a good explanation of a crash looks like—Terra, 3AC, FTX, all had global balance sheet effects that were felt everywhere. USDe did not do that, it was a Binance order book isolated event. 3) This begs the question: why is Star "revealing" this now, months later? Star does not produce any new evidence for this theory that people didn't already know and analyze to death. All of the order book data has been public for 4+ months and suddenly he claims this? This feels more like Star is picking a fight with CZ and using this simple story as a pretext to make it sound like CZ was in on it, or caused 10/10 through his own irresponsibility. Look, the reality is, there's no simple story explaining 10/10 that survives scrutiny. I don't have one either. If there was a simple story that could explain 10/10, there would already be widespread agreement about what caused it, like the agreement around the 3AC or FTX crashes. The best story to explain 10/10 is, to my mind: * Trump spooked markets with tariff threats on a Friday evening * This caused markets to sell off dramatically because crypto was the only thing to trade * Flurry of activity caused Binance APIs to go down, causing huge price dislocations and preventing market makers from balancing inventory across exchanges. This caused huge liquidations that could not get filled, but liquidation engines keep firing regardless, and all this got amplified by ADLs initiating everywhere and breaking hedges and risk management * This caused MMs to get wiped out, and they were unable to pick up the pieces—MMs need APIs to rebalance inventory, and without MMs, there were no buyers of last resort for many alts. Retail was not going to step in on a chaotic Friday evening to buy stuff * Crypto liquidation mechanisms are not designed to be self-stabilizing the way that TradFi mechanisms are (circuit breakers, etc.), crypto liquidations are designed purely to minimize insolvency risk * Altcoin prices are extremely path dependent, and we ended up in a bad path That's my story. It's not a very satisfying one, but neither is this "Binance + Ethena did it" story. A better root cause explanation is "APIs went down at the worst possible time," but that doesn't really sound so dastardly. Where simple stories do not suffice, unfortunately you have to choose a complicated one. And I think this complicated story is the best one for what actually happened on 10/10. Thankfully, the history of crypto is a long series of these "bad things happened, and later the market recovered." In the long run, I'm not worried that 10/10 permanently broke the market. Just that prices are path-dependent, retail + MMs got hurt bad on 10/10, and will need time to recover.

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