{"id":18500,"date":"2025-03-21T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18500"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:01:45","slug":"german-regulator-identifies-deficiencies-in-ethenas-usde-stablecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18500","title":{"rendered":"German Regulator Identifies &#8216;Deficiencies&#8217; in Ethena&#8217;s USDe Stablecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The German financial supervisory authority BaFin said it identified &#8220;serious deficiencies&#8221; in Ethena&#8217;s synthetic USDe stablecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Ethena is the yield-generating protocol. The stablecoin has a market cap of $5.4 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Ethena said on X that it will &#8220;continue to evaluate alternative frameworks,&#8221; after being notified that the &#8220;application under the MiCAR regulatory framework will not be approved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafin.de\/SharedDocs\/Veroeffentlichungen\/DE\/Verbrauchermitteilung\/weitere\/2025\/meldung_2025_03_21_Ethena_GmbH.html\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>, BaFin said that the deficiencies are related to the &#8220;bank&#8217;s business organization and violations of MiCAR requirements, such as those regarding asset reserves and compliance with capital requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BaFin also has reasonable grounds to suspect that Ethena GmbH is publicly offering securities in Germany in the form of &#8216;sUSDe&#8217; tokens of Ethena OpCo. Ltd. without the required securities prospectus,&#8221; the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>Ethena&#8217;s ENA tokenhad dropped 6.5% in the past 24 hours, extending losses following the announcement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/ethena\/\" target=\"_blank\">CoinMarketCap<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German financial supervisory authority BaFin said it identified &#8220;serious deficiencies&#8221; in Ethena&#8217;s synthetic USDe stablecoin. Ethena is the yield-generating protocol. The stablecoin has a market cap of $5.4 billion. Ethena said on X that it will &#8220;continue to evaluate alternative frameworks,&#8221; after being notified that the &#8220;application under the MiCAR regulatory framework will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}