lito
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there wouldn't be a liquidation cascade - just an orderly unwind of the leveraged positions
liquidations only occur if a stablecoin depegs but that's not the scenario you're describing
and even if it would temporarily depeg there wouldnt be liquidations because these markets use a hard-pegged oracle..
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megaeth surpassed monad tvl, but look closer:
- 61% ($300M) of this tvl belongs to @ethena's usdm supply
- meaning the remaining organic tvl is ONLY $190.92M
the situation doesn't look good
if usde yields drop below borrowing costs, that $300M vanishes in a heartbeat and triggers a massive liquidation cascade

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@litocoen I'm not against them making money but ZERO DOCUMENTATION + nothing suggestive of that anywhere is NOT ACCEPTABLE
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ok so let me get this clear
-> there's no info about fee anywhere on the UI
-> dig a bit on the chain : feeProtocol 34 = 50% fees
-> dropped into the TG chat to ask about docs, reply - "going through final edits, should be out tomorrow", no comment about fees
-> kumbaya has been out since forever but the docs are only going out TOMORROW, one day AFTER the most volume the chain will ever see in a day, the TGE
they're CONVENIENTLY stealing our money with no docs in sight, they've been live since more than a month...
they've already made 250k+ MEGA and 42k+ USDm with OUR funds
THIS IS NOT OKAY



GREEN JEFF@jeffthedunker
so the megaeth terminal dex takes 50% of your LP fees. i gave them $4k this morning 🥶🥶🥶
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@Void_of_Hype brother believe in something
as a venture investor your whole job is to underwrite power law outcomes
i wouldnt hold and buy ethena if i didnt think it can surpass tethers current marketcap
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@litocoen Power law if you distribute yield you need infinitely larger supply for equal issuer profits, an almost impossible number even to fit the Ena market cap at -50% lower
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ethena's white label stablecoin issuance platform is taking off
larger than bridge and m0
Carlos@0xcarlosg
MegaETH's USDm saw another $100M in mints yesterday, bringing supply to $264M Ethena Whitelabel stablecoins now sit at $337M across USDm, jupUSD, and suiUSDe. Nice to see teams internalizing stablecoin economics rather than giving them away to third-party issuers.
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yes it’s a volume game
look i know usdt and usdc are great businesses
everyone knows it
put yourself in the shoes of a stablecoin that didn’t launch 10 years ago and wants to catch up
obviously they’re going to undercut them on fees or in this case distribute yield to users and projects
they’re doing exactly that right thing
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The white label stables are tokenized tokenized treasuries. Ethena isnt setup to hold them so they deposit into USDTb. Two middle men taking fees. When 20% of yield reaches ENA ignoring all fees and with no emissions $5 of white label stable earns the same as $1 of Usdc/Usdt earns for Circle/Tether. When you factor them in its more likely requires $8-10 of white label USDe for Ena to earn equivalent of $1. Do you think USDe supply will hit $50 billion? If yes, it is still only comparable to a Circle equity with less than $10b supply.
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this is the best LP range selector UX i have seen in crypto so far by Kumbaya

lito@litocoen
im gonna bridge 10k into mega eth which apps should i try
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@saintniko @0xCramJam @EkuboProtocol tbf last time i lp’d was like a year ago
will give it a new try one of these days
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@Void_of_Hype i agree that ena incentives played a role in that expansion but are you denying that basis trade was a legit source of yield all of 2024-2025?
with regards to your prediction im making a different bet but i respect your opinion
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USDe expansion and decline because of funding rate changes is the biggest misnomer. It has been nothing more than proxy for ena price and market acceptance of endless emissions from Pendle and looping incentives. The team expected (and still does) that this demand for ena will be infinite and spent no time on actually expanding the product into areas that generate positive value and support high yield for USDe so that fees can flow to Ena. Ena is just circle or tether equity with an 80% fee share to partners and destined for another 75% decline in price
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@Void_of_Hype completely unrelated imo
just due to the compression of funding rates
why would it be a distraction, they have built the platform for their own stablecoin
its only logical to open it up to other brands
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@litocoen USDe supply fell from 16b to 3b of course a couple 100m spilled out into other areas. White label has been a complete distraction for the Ethena team
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main reference for me was Uniswap here
this was super easy to use in comparison
current price is shown correctly (was always broken on uniswap as data was stale) big fat bars for the ticks, numbers populate in real time as you slide, and it's visually pleasing
also nice analytics like unrealized p&l and IL loss
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@JolTheMunk yeah $550 million inflation adjusted
still ridiculous
i know half a dozen memecoins that are worth more
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@litocoen they also undervalued the inflation adjustment on $22M over 200 years lol
still a steal though
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