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Synthetic stablecoin protocol Ethena Labs has integrated with centralized exchange wallets of Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitget as of April 10.
“Users locking USDe for at least 7 days through exchange Web3 wallets are eligible for a 20% reward boost starting today,” <a href="https://twitter.com/ethena_labs/status/1778043979873018150" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">said</a> Ethena developers. The incentives, issued in the form of “Ethena sats,” can be converted to its native ENA token at the end of each campaign. To earn sats, users must first deposit Ethena USDe stablecoins into their exchange wallets, connect to the Ethena decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, and stake their holdings. The protocol has a total value locked of $2.274 billion at the <a href="https://defillama.com/protocol/ethena#information" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">time of publication</a>, generating an annualized revenue of $178 million.&nbsp;
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The protocol’s ecosystem rewards have attracted considerable attention and usage. As told by blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, since the start of Ethena Staking Season 2, the 10 top wallets have withdrawn a total of 37.5 million ENA ($51 million) and staked them.
On March 8, less than one month after launching its USDe stablecoin, Ethena <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethena-highest-earning-dapp-crypto">became the highest-earning</a> decentralized application in crypto when it offered a 67% annual percentage yield (APY) on USDe. The protocol currently has an APY of 24% on its stablecoins. However, the yield is not without risks, as it relies on trading income of <a href="https://ethena-labs.gitbook.io/ethena-labs/solution-overview/yield-explanation" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">complex</a> Ethereum derivatives to pay out promised returns.&nbsp;
Amid concerns over its high yield, Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs, told Cointelegraph <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/usde-yield-terra-luna-reaction-ethena-labs">in an interview</a> on Feb. 22 that comparisons to the failed Terra stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST), were just “knee-jerk reactions” and that the firm’s yields were organic and sustainable. “The biggest piece we’re trying to get across is that Anchor’s yield was just totally made up,” Young said. “It was just venture capital firms putting money into [USTC yield protocol] Anchor and then paying out a yield, which came from nowhere.”
Meanwhile, Ethena’s yields, which are publicly verifiable, are derived from a combination of Ethereum consensus layer inflation rewards, execution fees paid to Ether (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price">ETH</a>) stakers, maximal extractable value fee captures acquired by Ether stakers, and trading income provided by Ethena Labs. Specifically, the firm opens short derivative positions when it receives long-position collateral assets for minting USDe. The spread, or difference in value between the two positions, is then <a href="https://ethena-labs.gitbook.io/ethena-labs/solution-overview/yield-explanation" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">paid out</a> to USDe holders as yield.&nbsp;
Related:&nbsp;<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/frax-diversify-backing-yield-250-m-ethena-s-usde">Frax Finance dives into DeFi liquidity with $250M USDe allocation</a>

Ethena announces integration with exchange wallets

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