StablecoinX, the first pure-play treasury company focusing on the Ethena ecosystem, has announced the closing of its business combination with TLGY Acqusition Corp and it will begin trading on NASDAQ tomorrow under the ticker "USDE".
StablecoinX Inc. has closed its business combination with TLGY Acquisition Corp.
The combined company is the first public stablecoin infrastructure company focused on the @Ethena digital dollar ecosystem, built on infrastructure services, the Stablecoin Harness middleware stack, and institutional distribution, supported by a multi-year ENA treasury strategy. $USDE
»» The connective layer of the stablecoin economy.
Ethena and @coinbase have partnered to grow onchain finance and savings products for their 100m+ userbase, with the first growth initiative launching next week.
Alongside this partnership Coinbase Ventures have also made their first investment into Ethena on the open market.
Important @ethena update --> make USDe less dependent on one market regime
Historically, their USDe story was tied to crypto basis trade/ perp funding, which kinda worked well when those rates were there.
But as 1) crypto-native yields compressed 2) more competitors come in to compete, the same trade starts giving less for the same risk.
Hence Ethena is broadening up the backing mix:
• overcollateralised insti lending
• higher quality liquid RWAs beyond T-Bills
• equity + commodity basis
• prime lending
Takeaway:
• USDe is trying to become a product that can stay competitive even when crypto-native rates are boring
• Done to avoid concentration risk (over reliant on one revenue stream) + tap into much bigger ponds (RWA, insti lending) + resilience (to still make sense when the market gets slower)
• $ENA token has probably bottomed out? Will these new integrations and revenue streams coupled with their broad distributions* trickle into the token?
*They already built a product that lives across both DeFi AND CeFi, and now increasingly more institutional rails too
Obviously, more moving parts means more things to underwrite:
• Counterparty quality and risk committee
• Liquidity terms
• Transparency
If they do this as well as their basis trade szn in the past, USDe probably ends up surviving multiple cycles
Data from @Tree_of_Alpha, @EntropyAdvisors and @DefiLlama
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