{"id":43617,"date":"2025-08-22T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43617"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:16:40","slug":"lido-ethena-rally-more-than-10-as-traders-snap-up-cheap-staking-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43617","title":{"rendered":"Lido, Ethena Rally More Than 10% as Traders Snap Up Cheap Staking Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto traders bought the dip in several Ethereum staking tokens on Friday, lifting the likes of lido (LDO) and ethena (ENA) up by 14% and 15%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The gains follows a week-long decline that took place alongside a rapid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/18\/top-crypto-traders-flip-bearish-on-btc-eth-in-major-sentiment-shift\">shift in sentiment<\/a>, which is typically a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/financial-theory\/08\/contrarian-investing.asp\">signal to buy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lido and ethena are returning to last week&#8217;s highs after an early August rally spurred by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission&#8217;s statement that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/08\/sec-greenlight-on-liquid-staking-sends-eth-past-usd4k-spurs-broad-staking-and-layer-2-rally\">liquid staking protocols aren&#8217;t securities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SEC&#8217;s statement was viewed as bullish for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-is-defi\/\">decentralized finance<\/a> (DeFi) ecosystem, in particular for Ethereum-based protocols that depend on staking mechanisms to generate a yield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/ad08537823bdb768d64489f2a30998cb69221374-2653x1344.png?auto=format\" alt=\"ENA\/USD and LDO\/USD charts (TradingView)\" title=\"ENA\/USD and LDO\/USD charts (TradingView)\"><\/p>\n<p>The clarity also opened the floodgates for institutions, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/08\/14\/figment-outpaces-rivals-in-ether-staking-growth-lido-s-decline-eases-dominance-concerns\">Figment&#8217;s dominance over other liquid-staking protocols<\/a> suggesting that institutional inflows were beginning to drive the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Trading volume for ENA trading pairs doubled in the past 24 hours to $1 billion, while LDO is up by 83% to $256 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/lido-dao\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in volume coupled with bitcoin (BTC) and ether&#8217;s (ETH) ability to hold key levels of support bodes well for the altcoin sector in general, although it&#8217;s worth noting that the ether validator queue remains extremely high at 825,580 ETH ($3.8 billion).<\/p>\n<p>When these ether tokens are unstaked, they can either be sold on the open market as a form of profit-taking, or staked elsewhere to generate a higher yield \u2014 the former would likely halt any further moves to the upside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto traders bought the dip in several Ethereum staking tokens on Friday, lifting the likes of lido (LDO) and ethena (ENA) up by 14% and 15%, respectively. The gains follows a week-long decline that took place alongside a rapid shift in sentiment, which is typically a signal to buy. Lido and ethena are returning to [&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-43617","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\/43617","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=43617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}