The Ethena team is facing a "integrity" crisis, using 180 million ENA to earn Sats with the intention of diluting rewards?
Does the Ethereum stablecoin synthetic dollar project Ethena have a "criminal record"?Author: Nomad
Compiled by: Felix, PANews
The Ethereum stablecoin synthetic dollar project Ethena has not shaken off the doubts of being the "next LUNA," and recently faced another "crisis of integrity." A community user posted on the X platform questioning the use of 180 million ENA to earn Sats in Q3, diluting the rewards of other participants. Here are the details.
The Ethena team is using 180 million ENA tokens (25% of the SENA supply, used to earn Sats) for Sats liquidity mining in Q3, which effectively dilutes the rewards of other participants. This move has raised significant concerns about the team's ethics.
Evidence Timeline:
August 22: Coinbase announced that its Prime service would become the primary custodian of ENA tokens for Ethena Labs and Foundation.
August 23: The Coinbase Prime custody address received over 3 billion ENA tokens, exceeding the total circulating supply of ENA at that time, according to Ethena's vesting plan. There is reason to believe this is the Coinbase Prime custody address for ENA tokens locked by the core team of Ethena Labs and the Ethena Foundation.
October 3: When SENA staking was launched through the S2 airdrop, the Coinbase Prime Custody address distributed 180 million ENA tokens to six wallets:
- Day 1: 2 transfers (30 million and 35 million ENA)
- Following days: 4 transfers (35 million, 30 million, 25 million, 25 million ENA)
Ethena sats leaderboard shows:
These SENA can not only earn Sats but also earn Ethereal points (the DEX in collaboration with Ethena is set to launch by the end of 2024). The following image shows that the Ethena team’s SENA has currently accumulated 20% of the total Ethereal points.
These suspicious addresses have raised questions before. During Ethena's first community call, this was the most voted question, but the Ethena team chose to completely ignore it, which fully illustrates the team's ethical standards and attitude.
The ethical conduct of the Ethena team has always been questionable, having previously changed the vesting rules arbitrarily. Users participating in S1 mining may remember that the Ethena team forced them to stake 50% of their vested tokens halfway through the vesting plan. Users participating in S2 mining suffered losses due to the last-minute implementation of a 30-day average USDe holding rule. S2 YT holders were almost facing significant losses when subjected to the same average holding rule.
As a CeDeFi project, it is largely a black box. Users have no choice but to trust the numbers published by the Ethena team. No one really knows how much profit and staking income Ethena has generated from the $2.6 billion user fund, or whether all income is flowing to SUSDe holders. While establishing strong trust with users is crucial for protocols like Ethena, the team's past performance has been contrary to this principle.
