Ethena to invest $46m reserve fund in tokenized assets

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As a seasoned analyst with over two decades of experience in traditional finance and blockchain technology, I find Ethena’s decision to allocate its Reserve Fund into various tokenized real-world assets intriguing. The diversification strategy seems well thought out, considering the criteria for selection such as product maturity, liquidity, risk-adjusted yield, and legal design.

In simpler terms, the decentralized finance platform known as Ethena plans to invest $46 million from its reserve fund into different types of digital assets that represent real-world holdings.

On October 10th, I disclosed our strategic choices regarding our fund’s investments. Among these selections are:

As stated by Ethena, the chosen assets were based on their prospective value within the practical investment market. Factors taken into account during selection were:

Ethena’s Reserve Fund RWA allocations

After thorough evaluation by Ethena’s risk management team, the selection was made for BlackRock’s fund, Superstate’s government debt fund, Mountain Protocol’s stablecoin, and Sky’s stablecoin. This five-person committee, which has voting rights, consists of representatives from Gauntlet, Block Analitica, Steakhouse, Llama Risk, and Blockworks Advisory.

In July, Ethena unveiled plans for a real-world asset-backed reserve fund, which garnered interest from 25 different market participants. Out of all the applicants, this particular group of four was chosen by the committee.

In the blog post, Ethena has broken down the following distribution:

After the committee finishes deciding on the distributions, it will then oversee the resources and give frequent reports about them.

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2024-10-10 22:39