Telegram Gets a Synthetic Dollar: Ethena Labs and TON Join Forces! 🚀💸

From the icy steppes of Ethereum, a new wind sweeps: Ethena Labs now ties its synthetic dollar, USDe, to the bright, bustling avenues of Telegram via TON. The word, like a spring thaw, came on a Thursday (May 1)—carried quietly, but with seismic possibility. The uninitiated might yawn, but Telegram’s one billion denizens now clutch a new coin in their chat-stained hands. Send, save, pay, and ponder: Is this what Dostoevsky saw in his darkest ledger?

When Code Meets Cossack: Ethena and TON Waltz

A post, brief and trembling (as all tragic love letters are), announced what poets, miners, and meme-lords had only dared imagine. Ethena and the Ton blockchain have pledged themselves, in a union as consequential as Natasha Rostov’s first dance. Through this alliance, USDe—the digital echo of the mighty dollar—steps into Telegram’s chaos, ready to be both hero and heretic.

And yet, this isn’t USDe’s first affair. Already entwined across more than 20 chains, it glides under LayerZero’s OFT standard, less a coin, more a jazz riff among stablecoins—accessible everywhere, promising yields as sweet as May snowmelt but, let’s be honest, just as unpredictable. 😏

The new partnership, fragrant with ambition, is said to focus on three glorious product lines (because, in crypto, the only thing holier than love is diversification):

USDe now smuggled into major non-custodial TON wallets like TON Space—finally, space travel for your spare change. 🚀
Integration with Telegram’s Wallet, because nothing says “the future” like sending stablecoins while dodging spam bots and marriage proposals.
Major TON DeFi apps now receive the synthetic stablecoin, fueling trading, savings, lending, and probably a few new existential crises for good measure.

Meanwhile, ENA, the protocol’s native coin, found itself in the spotlight, growing nearly 3.5% in a day! From $0.3036 to $0.033 in 24 swinging hours (wait, math—someone’s lost a decimal like Anna Karenina’s sanity). Yet, bearish winds are still howling through the steppe; CoinGape points out the three-month chart signals more tragedy than triumph ahead. 📉

Not to be outdone, Toncoin—TON’s own native token—has chosen this moment for a poetic retreat. Despite all this blossoming partnership energy, its price slipped 3% in 24 hours, down to $3.15. CoinGape, ever the Chekhovian uncle, suggests bearish moods remain in the room, pouring tea, wringing hands, and waiting for spring.

2025-05-01 13:57

When Code Meets Cossack: Ethena and TON Waltz

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