Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe were further integrated into Spark’s Liquidity Layer today via enabling direct holding of USDe and sUSDe, up to a total allocation of $1.1 billion in the near term. Onboarding Ethena into the Spark Liquidity Layer will allow Spark to access Ethena rewards directly rather than via lending markets.

In an effort to improve the transparency of the Ethena protocol’s backing assets beyond our current collateral and exchange breakdown provided on the dashboards, we are excited to share our ninth attestation reports from all integrated custodians, verifying the assets backing USDe reside off-exchange within institutional custodial solutions.

Today Usual, one of the fastest stablecoin issuing protocols, has announced it will be moving to integrate both USDtb and sUSDe as a core part of its business strategy moving forward. Ethena Labs is excited to support Usual as they benefit from integrating the composable and DeFi-first properties of Ethena assets.

Ethena Labs is excited to announce the public launch of a new stablecoin product, USDtb, which has its reserves invested in BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) - in partnership with Securitize, the leader in the tokenization of real-world assets.

The Largest Options Protocol Has Joined the Ethena Network Family

In an effort to improve the transparency of the Ethena protocol’s backing assets beyond our current collateral and exchange breakdown provided on the dashboards, we are excited to share our eighth attestation reports from all integrated custodians, verifying the assets backing USDe reside off-exchange within institutional custodial solutions.

We are excited to share that USDe will be widely integrated throughout Gate.io.

In October 2024, our team detected and swiftly thwarted an attempted social engineering attack aimed at compromising our primary account on X.com. The attacker’s strategy included sophisticated identity forgery and social engineering of staff at X.com to circumvent standard security measures, including two-factor authentication (2FA). Our immediate response and coordination with X.com’s support team prevented unauthorized changes and secured the account against future attempts.

In an effort to improve the transparency of the Ethena protocol’s backing assets beyond our current collateral and exchange breakdown provided on the dashboards, we are excited to share our seventh attestation reports from all integrated custodians, verifying the assets backing USDe reside off-exchange within institutional custodial solutions.