Ethena USDe Market Cap Drops 40% After ‘Black Friday’ October 10 Crash
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The synthetic stablecoin’s market capitalization has shed over $5 billion in just three and a half weeks. Ethena Labs’ synthetic dollar-pegged token Ethena USDe (USDE) has lost over $5 billion of its market capitalization since the Oct. 10 market crash, after the asset experienced a major stress test. Before the “Black Friday” flash crash — which wiped out over $19 billion in leveraged positions across the market, becoming the largest liquidation event in crypto to date — USDE’s market cap stood above $14.6 billion. Ethen USDe’s market cap fell sharply by about $2 billion on Oct. 10-11 as investors rushed to redeem their USDE, exchanging their tokens for the underlying collateral. According to Ethena Labs’ documentation, each USDE redemption burns the returned USDE, which can reduce the overall token supply, and thus the market capitalization. As Blockworks analysts noted in an Oct. 15 Ethena governance forum post, “approximately $1.9 billion in USDe redemptions were processed between the 10th and the 11th of October.” The analysts added that the large redemption volume was processed quickly, noting Ethena’s mechanism showed “extreme resilience”: “While it [redemption volume] was for $1.6B in a single day and $1.9B in the two days before and after the crash, it is likely realistic to consider that the bulk of this redemption happened in less than a few hours.” Ethena USDe lost another $3 billion in market cap over the rest of October, reaching about $9.2 billion at press time. Ethena USDe market cap in October. Source: CoinGecko The Binance Flash-Crash The nearly 40% drop in market cap is the sharpest one since Ethena USDe’s launch in late 2023. While it’s hard to say what the exact reasons for the massive redemptions are, the token did come under increased scrutiny after Oct. 10, when its price on crypto’s…
