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Onchain institutional credit protocol that runs lending pools and yield-bearing vaults, including syrupUSDC, offering overcollateralized loans to crypto firms.
LlamaRisk's October 12 snapshot places 51.2% of Ethena's USDe backing in DeFi and institutional lending. The allocation figure does not measure actual borrower drawdowns, so a holder's exit near $1 turns on pool liquidity and whitelisted redemption rights.
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Two Aave positions on Arc hold about 97% of supplied syrupUSDC at health factors of 1.02 and 1.01, LlamaRisk's Oct. 9 snapshot shows. Liquidators would sell the collateral on the market or wait in a Maple queue that can take hours, CryptoSlate reported.
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Dune's Q3 report puts tokenized credit at 76%, about $1.61 billion, of the real-world collateral in DeFi lending. Holders borrow against credit for its yield, and part of that yield comes from loans to crypto firms.
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The DAO's largest-ever budget defunds liquidity-provider rewards in favour of institutional partnership work, and hands the protocol to Coinbase Custody's former chief executive.
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DefiLlama puts actively deployed real-world assets at $3.98 billion, up sixfold in a year. Measured against $34.55 billion issued, that is 11.5% doing any work onchain.
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