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Purinta Is Building the First Money Market for Memecoins Memecoins already have strong communities, deep liquidity, and highly active trading volumes. What they have lacked is a credit layer that allows holders to use their positions more flexibly The problem for many holders looks like this: Hold memecoin → need stablecoins → sell part of the position That is the most straightforward way to access liquidity, but it also means reducing exposure whenever capital is needed @purintaxyz introduces another option: Deposit memecoins as collateral → borrow USDC → keep exposure to the memecoin position For example, imagine you are holding $10,000 worth of PEPE and need $3,000 USDC to trade, farm, or deploy into another opportunity Instead of selling roughly 30% of your spot position, you can use PEPE as collateral to borrow USDC while maintaining your original thesis and exposure ---------- Of course, memecoins remain highly volatile assets. But this is a type of risk that can be monitored directly through market data: • Prices update continuously • Liquidity can be observed in real time • LTVs and liquidation thresholds can be designed around market depth • Liquidations follow transparent smart-contract rules Purinta is building the market structure that allows an asset normally sitting idle in a wallet to become usable collateral $22.21B memecoin as an idle asset → transparent collateral → liquidity for holders → productive DeFi capital ➥ At launch, Purinta supports $PEPE and $SPX6900 as collateral for borrowing USDC. Eligible borrowers may also receive Merkl incentives to help offset borrowing costs during the initial launch phase Go check out the product and try it yourself: https://t.co/Z5AClgejXR

Stablecoins are entering their distribution era. Open USD is not just another stablecoin launch. It is a signal that the next phase of stablecoin competition will be fought through networks, incentives, integrations and reserve economics. For years, the game was simple. ⭢ USDT won global liquidity ⭢ USDC won regulated crypto rails ⭢ USDS turned stablecoins into DeFi-native yield ⭢ USDe made the dollar a crypto-native carry trade ⭢ GHO is becoming the money layer inside Aave’s credit stack. Now Open USD brings a different playbook with 140+ partners, no-cost mint and redeem for businesses, shared reserve economics and neutral governance. This is the real shift. Stablecoins are no longer competing only on trust, peg or supply. They are competing on distribution. @tether has global liquidity. @circle has regulated rails. @SkyEcosystem and @ethena have yield. @aave has credit distribution. @Plasma and @tempo are building stablecoin-native rails. @openstandard is trying to turn enterprises themselves into the distribution network. The next stablecoin cycle may not have one winner. It may have several vertical winners across payments, DeFi yield, credit, remittances, trading and merchant settlement. Too many stablecoins looks messy from the outside. But for users, it means more competition, lower fees, more incentives and a bigger fight to win liquidity.

GHO is evolving beyond a single-purpose stablecoin. In Q1 2025, Core lending generated around 98% of GHO revenue. By Q2 2026, that share has fallen to roughly 28%. The big change is not total revenue. It is the revenue mix. The GHO Stability Module now contributes around 56%, while Prime and Horizon make up the rest. This matters because GHO is no longer monetized through Core lending alone. It is becoming a shared asset powering multiple products across the Aave ecosystem. As @aave expands GHO across more issuance rails, markets and chains, each new surface strengthens the same GHO economy instead of creating isolated demand. Most stablecoins scale by growing supply. ethereum:0x40d16fc0246ad3160ccc09b8d0d3a2cd28ae6c2f is starting to scale by expanding the number of products built around the same asset.

No drama this week, just Aave doing what it does. The fundamentals kept stacking: → V4 $XAUt loans at ATH → 46.7% market share → $150M USDT0 into Plasma → Horizon crossed $580M deposits → $150M WETH back on V3 Ethereum → Aavenomics 3.0 buyback taking shape → Positioning for securities lending & tokenized equities Then the market started catching up. → ethereum:0x7fc66500c84a76ad7e9c93437bfc5ac33e2ddae9 broke higher → Holders hit 197.85K → FDV back to $1.5B → Volume exploded → P/E expanded First fundamentals then sentiment. Let's see what @aave cooks next.

How Upshift Turns AUSD Into Productive DeFi Capital on @monad Through @upshift_fi, AUSD is automatically allocated across DeFi opportunities on Monad and wrapped into earnAUSD a liquid yield token that remains usable across the ecosystem earnAUSD currently has around $20.51M in TVL, a 1.0263 share price, and roughly 8.00% 7-day APY What matters is that earnAUSD does not stop at being a yield vault • @pendle_fi turns its yield into fixed-rate and yield-trading markets • @Uniswap / @PancakeSwap provide spot swap liquidity • @Morpho / @eulerfinance unlock lending and collateral utility • @Curvance / @TownSquarexyz add a leverage layer • @merkl_xyz bootstraps liquidity through incentives Pendle already shows that this market is beginning to develop real rate discovery: • PT-AUSD fixed APY ~ 6.84% • PT-earnAUSD fixed APY ~ 11.21% • AUSD liquidity ~ $30.13M • earnAUSD liquidity ! $4.05M $AUSD already has meaningful supply on Monad, creating the liquidity base needed for earnAUSD to scale ➥ Upshift turns AUSD into capital that can be deployed across Monad for yield, liquidity, collateral, and leverage.