Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoin’s as the synthetic dollar looks to recover from its 2026 contraction. On Aug. 28, Ethena revealed plans to extend the basis strategy behind USDe into equity perpetual futures, where open interest has surged to about $6.2 billion […] The post Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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- Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoin’s as the synthetic dollar looks to recover from its 2026 contraction.
- 28, Ethena revealed plans to extend the basis strategy behind USDe into equity perpetual futures, where open interest has surged to about $6.2 billion […] The post Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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