Ethena’s Synthetic Usde Contracts Sharply As Dollar-backed...
Ethena’s USDe shed 24% of its supply in November, losing market share as fiat-backed stablecoins including USDT, USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD added billions.
Ethena’s synthetic-dollar stablecoin USDe saw one of its sharpest monthly contractions yet, while fiat-backed stablecoins including USDT, USDC and PYUSD attracted billions in inflows.
CoinGecko data showed that Ethena’s USDe stablecoin fell from a market capitalization of $9.3 billion on Nov. 1 to $7.1 billion on Nov. 30. The token saw about $2.2 billion in redemptions, marking a 24% decline in supply in November.
Ethena’s USDe is a synthetic stablecoin that maintains its dollar peg through trading strategies with crypto and futures contracts rather than holding actual dollars. USDe outflows mean that users are either selling USDe on the open market, withdrawing from pools or unwinding their positions on decentralized applications (DApps).
At the time of writing, CoinGecko data shows that the overall stablecoin market cap is at $311 billion. The market remains dominated by US dollar stablecoins, capturing $303 billion of the sector’s total valuation.
USDe’s November contraction comes weeks after the synthetic stablecoin suffered a depegging event on the crypto exchange Binance. At the time, USDe briefly plunged to $0.65 on the exchange.
Ethena founder Guy Young said that the drop was caused by a Binance-specific oracle issue and not a problem with USDe’s underlying collateral mechanism that backs the asset.
Young said that the USDe token’s minting and redemption functions operated “perfectly” during the incident, with about 2 billion tokens redeemed across decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.
On Oct. 9, USDe market cap hovered at $14.8 billion, making it the third-largest stablecoin at the time. Since then, it has lost over 53% of its market capitalization.
At the time of writing, CoinGecko data shows that USDe has a total valuation of $6.9 billion, dropping it to the fourth spot in the stablecoin market cap rankings.
Source: CoinTelegraph
