Been holding and mentioning $MONEY for some time now, but never shared my thesis.
So here it is:
I feel like they did something really unique to stablecoins, and very in-line with the current meta.
Until now, stablecoins like USDC and USDT were backed mostly by US Treasuries and cash held by the issuer.
The yield on those reserves? It goes to Circle and Tether. You only get a dollar that sits still.
What if your dollar was backed by the S&P 500, and the upside stayed with you?
That's what Own is building.
Deposit eSPY (a token tracking the S&P 500, backed 1:1 by real tokenized stock in a protocol-owned reserve). Mint eUSD against it at 150% collateral. Keep every bit of upside on your stocks while you spend, trade, or farm with the dollars.
Important, the peg isn't just a promise. Any holder can redeem 1 eUSD for exactly $1 of eSPY.
And they built in an amazing flywheel for their protocol token $MONEY:
Stake eUSD and you earn yield paid from $MONEY trading fees.
Hold $MONEY and you boost that yield.
That's where it gets interesting. Normally, more stakers means a thinner APR for everyone. Here, it's the feature instead of the bug:
More eUSD staked → more $MONEY needed to max the boost → more $MONEY buying and volume → more trading fees → APR climbs back up → more people mint and stake eUSD.
Wall Street built the world's best collateral.
DeFi built the world's best money rails.
Own is plugging one into the other.
Think this coin can do very well during the next leg up of the Robinhood eco.
A private bank will lend against your portfolio if it's worth twenty million.
Nobody builds that desk for a $200 account, because the desk costs more than the account generates.
A smart contract doesn't care which one you are.
this is the size play w/conviction I was talking about a few days ago
https://t.co/V3cbfQF2ip have developed a novel product offering in the defi space.
devs and teams bringing ambitious concepts to life and building for the world to see is always such a strong buy signal for me.
with the flywheel now live, dev @0xbhargav’s credentials, team/holders that understand the weight of the tech, product market fit, insane yield offering and constant adaptation, there is huge potential for this to be a long-standing highly valued project.
early, not wrong (check my credentials)
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