Artificial greenback protocol developer Ethena Labs has added Bitcoin (BTC) to the backing of its USDe stablecoin, the agency’s flagship product.
Saying by way of the social media platform X, Ethena Labs says that utilizing Bitcoin to again USDe is “an important unlock which is able to allow USDe to scale considerably” from its present provide of $2 billion.
USDe goals to be a censorship-resistant stablecoin that maintains its backing on-chain by way of delta-hedging staked Ethereum (ETH) collateral – a mechanism described as an “Web Bond.”
“The ‘Web Bond’ will mix yield derived from staked Ethereum in addition to the funding and foundation unfold from perpetual and futures’ markets, to create the primary on-chain crypto-native ‘bond’ that may perform as a dollar-denominated financial savings instrument for customers in permitted jurisdictions.”
Ethena Labs says that Bitcoin’s thicker liquidity and better open curiosity on exchanges make it superb for backing and scaling USDe in comparison with Ethereum.
“In only one 12 months, BTC open curiosity (OI) on main exchanges (excluding the Chicago Mercantile Trade) has grown from $10 billion to $25 billion, whereas ETH OI has grown from $5 to $10 billion.
BTC spinoff markets are rising at a quicker tempo than ETH and supply higher scalability and liquidity for delta hedging…
Whereas BTC doesn’t possess a local staking yield like staked ETH, staking yields of 3-4% are much less important in a bull market when funding charges are >30%.
The present setting is good for optimizing for the scalability of USDe.”
Ethena’s BTC backing for USDe is now mirrored reside on its dashboard.
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