Ethena USDe USDE

What USDE actually is on-chain

Ethena USDe is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x4c9edd5852cd905f086c759e8383e09bff1e68b3. That address, not the ticker USDE, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself USDE, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, USDE is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in USDE 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 USDE 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 USDE sits in the market

At #28, Ethena USDe sits in the middle of the large-cap band. This is the part of the table capital rotates through first: when the leaders stall, money moves down into names like USDE, and when risk comes off it leaves here before it leaves the top ten. Spot spreads stay tight through both legs of that cycle; derivative funding does not, and perp basis is usually the earlier signal.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live USDE order books (Binance, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is coverage in line with a #28 ranking: enough books to cross-check a quote, few enough that one of them can dominate price formation for hours at a time. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

USDE against its all-time high

USDE is 3.4% below the $1.03 record set on 2025-12-09. That is a shallow drawdown: the high itself is the nearest meaningful reference overhead, and the supply that changed hands near it is small enough that a retest is a mechanical question of flow rather than a structural one. Reclaiming the high needs only 1.03x from here. That high was set about a year ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

USDE across its historical range

The recorded range is comparatively narrow: 1.11x between $0.9295 and $1.03. Either the price history is short, or the asset is designed not to move.

At 7.5% above its record low of $0.9295 (on 2024-10-04), USDE sits near the edge of its own price history. Nothing has traded beneath that level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster underneath. The low is old enough that it has held as a floor across multiple market regimes, which is a materially different situation from a low being freshly printed.

USDE supply structure

There is no fixed maximum supply for USDE. Total supply stands at 3.97 billion USDE and essentially all of it — 100.0% — is circulating. With no locked treasury to unlock, dilution comes from protocol issuance over time rather than from a cliff on a vesting calendar, which tends to produce slow supply drift instead of discrete unlock shocks. With a supply in the billions, the quoted price is low enough that a single cent of movement is a large percentage swing; size your thresholds in percent, not in cents.

What kind of asset USDE is

Ethena USDe trades primarily as an ecosystem asset rather than as a base-layer network of its own, which means it carries a beta to its host chain. When the host chain's native asset rallies, tokens in its ecosystem typically amplify the move in both directions, and liquidity for them is concentrated on that chain's venues.

CoinGecko files USDE under 10 categories, including MegaETH Ecosystem, Manta Network Ecosystem, Aptos Ecosystem, X Layer Ecosystem, Swellchain Ecosystem. CoinGecko also records deployments on Avalanche (256 tracked tokens), Solana (3,129 tracked tokens), BNB Chain (2,027 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 USDe alert that is worth receiving

Ethena USDe is the ERC-20 at 0x4c9e…68b3 on Ethereum — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2025-12-09 — rank #28. On this profile the condition that carries signal is a single downside threshold sized to your risk tolerance plus a volume alert.

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