The attractive yield opportunity is causing widespread concern in the crypto community.
Cryptocurrency investors took to X to express their concern about the staking yield of Ethena Labs’ newly launched stablecoin.
Ethena Labs launched its USDe stablecoin on the public mainnet on Feb. 19, according to the company’s X post. The USDe Ethereum-based synthetic dollar currently offers a 27.6% annual percentage yield (APY), according to Ethena Labs’ homepage. This is considerably higher than the 20% yield offered by Anchor Protocol on Terra’s UST, before the algorithmic stablecoin issuer Terra Luna collapsed in May 2022.
The attractive yield opportunity caused widespread concerns in the crypto community. According to 0xngmi, a pseudonymous DefiLlama code contributor, the real concern is a potential yield inversion, not Ethena’s high stablecoin yield. He wrote:
