Ethena ENA

What ENA actually is on-chain

Ethena is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x57e114b691db790c35207b2e685d4a43181e6061. That address, not the ticker ENA, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself ENA, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, ENA is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in ENA itself, and secondary liquidity sits in Uniswap-style AMM pools. Two consequences follow for anyone setting alerts: you need ETH in the same wallet to move the token at all, and a quoted price taken from a pool is a pool price — it includes slippage that an order-book quote would not.

For ENA the project publishes a whitepaper and an active account as @ethena_labs. That is a partial paper trail — enough to check claims against, not enough to audit. None of it is a quality judgement about the asset; it is simply what can be independently checked before the chart is worth looking at.

Where ENA sits in the market

At #66, Ethena sits in the bottom of the large-cap band, adjacent to the mid-cap cut-off. Down here the large-cap label is doing less work than it appears to. ENA is one revision away from the mid-cap band, and the practical consequences of crossing that line — index eligibility, market-maker commitments, how much size the book absorbs — change well before the ranking does.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 8 live ENA order books (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX…). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #66 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

ENA against its all-time high

ENA trades 87.5% below its $1.52 record (on 2024-04-11), which puts a 8.02x recovery between spot and that level. A drawdown of this size is usually a structural break rather than a correction — the market that set the high and the market trading today are not the same market. Using that print as a price objective is not a conservative assumption, it is a very aggressive one. That high was set 3 years ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

ENA across its historical range

The recorded range runs 19.8x, from $0.0769 to $1.52 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

ENA trades roughly 2.47x above its record low of $0.0769 (on 2026-04-05). Recovery from the bottom has been limited, which means the low is still close enough to function as a real reference level rather than a historical footnote.

ENA supply structure

ENA is capped at 15.00 billion ENA, of which only 9.03 billion is circulating — 60.2% issued, leaving 5.97 billion still to come. At that ratio the emission schedule is a primary driver of the supply story, not a footnote: new supply arrives continuously and has to be absorbed by new demand before price can hold a level.

What kind of asset ENA is

Ethena is a DeFi protocol token, which ties it to total value locked and to the interest-rate environment on-chain. These assets carry a beta to the market plus a second exposure that is easy to miss: protocol risk. A contract exploit or an oracle failure repriced instantly and independently of any market move, and that tail is a real component of holding the token.

CoinGecko files ENA under 10 categories, including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Binance Launchpool, Avalanche Ecosystem, Arbitrum Ecosystem, Ethereum Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on Avalanche (256 tracked tokens), Arbitrum (391 tracked tokens), Ethereum (3,072 tracked tokens), so on-chain liquidity is split across several networks and the cheapest venue depends on which deployment you are trading.

How to set a Ethena alert that is worth receiving

Ethena is the ERC-20 at 0x57e1…6061 on Ethereum — quoted on 8 venues we stream — high dated 2024-04-11 — rank #66. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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