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Ethena USDe is analogous to a tokenized, diversified CLO with a single risk class. Strata completes the capital structure with Senior and Junior tranches on USDe, allowing capital to be allocated according to distinct risk-return preferences. Senior USDe: ~3.3% APY, ~10% junior risk coverage Junior USDe: ~10.9% APY, 2.8x sUSDe APY

Vaults solved onchain asset management. Strata solves onchain capital formation. @Grayscale correctly identifies vaults as the next evolution of onchain asset management. But the real breakthrough isn't professional portfolio management on blockchain rails, it's giving those portfolios a capital structure. Instead of every vault representing a single risk profile, Strata lets any managed vault issue programmable Senior and Junior tranches. Protected yield for conservative capital, first-loss levered exposure for risk-seeking capital. The result: a generalized risk-transfer and liquidity layer sitting above vaults. Turning crypto-native strategies, tokenized private credit, and managed funds into scalable onchain capital markets.

Sharp primer from @Solofunk and the @serotonin_hq team. Since launching last October, Strata has grown to 6 markets, $1.5B+ in assets minted, and 20k+ users. What excites us most is what's next. Strata v2 evolves Strata from a structured yield platform into a modular onchain infrastructure for structured yields, enabling crypto-native and real-world yields to be efficiently structured, distributed, and accessed through a programmable risk transfer and liquidity layer on DeFi rails.

Junior USDe (jrUSDe) yield at 10.75%. Still one of the best ways to earn double digits on @ethena USDe. No looping. Just structured yields at play.

Double-digit access to @ethena's yield. No loop to unwind. jrUSDe pays 10.92% today. sUSDe pays 3.9%. Same underlying, same strategy, zero borrowing. srUSDe holders give up part of their yield for a floored return and first-loss protection. That premium flows to jrUSDe. Today, with $60M of senior above $6.5M of junior, every basis point the senior gives up reaches the junior multiplied by nine. 3.9% underlying plus the premium at 9.2x is 10.9%. That ratio is leverage, roughly 10x. About the same as a max PT loop on Aave. What differs is what kills the position. A loop at 11.3x runs a 2% buffer to liquidation. A temporary depeg, a borrow spike, an oracle mark: any of these can force the unwind, at the worst moment, with no loss ever realized. Path risk, priced in basis points. jrUSDe has no LTV, no health factor, no borrow rate, no maturity, no liquidator. Impairment requires a realized loss in the underlying of roughly 10% of the pool before junior capital is exhausted. Nothing in sUSDe's history has come close to that in a single episode. Not October 10. Not the November stress. To be precise about the trade: this is first-loss capital. If sUSDe realizes a loss, junior absorbs it before senior loses a cent. That seat is exactly what earns the 10.9%. But the risk you are not taking is the one that actually ends most levered positions: being right about the asset and forced out anyway. The loop pays you to survive the path. The junior pays you to be right about the destination. Same leverage. Better failure mode. Double digits, no unwind.