Avalanche🔺 (@avax): Stable Assets, Yield Markets, and Payments: DeFi’s Next Stage on Avalanche 🔺

Stable Assets, Yield Markets, and Payments: DeFi’s Next Stage on Avalanche 🔺 Avalanche DeFi is maturing into structured financial infrastructure built on stability, efficiency, and real-world utility. Three new integrations — Ethena, Pendle, and PayPal USD (PYUSD0) — expand Avalanche’s role as a foundation for global finance. Ethena: Synthetic Dollars & Yield Rewards are variable and are not guaranteed. There is a risk of loss of your total investment. Stable assets are the backbone of DeFi. Ethena introduces USDe and sUSDe to Avalanche: USDe: a synthetic dollar pegged to $1 via a delta-neutral strategy that combines spot crypto with short perpetuals, designed to reduce exposure to crypto volatility. sUSDe: a staked variant that distributes protocol revenue from perpetual funding, reserve yields, and staking rewards, turning stability into potential yield. sUSDe liquidity is already live across Uniswap, LFJ, Pharaoh Exchange, Blackhole, and integrated as collateral in protocols like Euler Finance, Silo, and Folks Finance — strengthening the foundation for Avalanche DeFi. Pendle: Structured Yield Markets Rewards are variable and are not guaranteed. There is a risk of loss of your total investment. Pendle brings structured yield markets to Avalanche with the first cross-chain Principal Tokens (PTs). PTs: discounted assets that mature at face value, enabling fixed-rate returns. YTs: variable exposure to yield streams. LPs: liquidity providers earning fees and incentives. By unbundling principal and yield, Pendle mirrors traditional fixed-income markets and unlocks new strategies for capital efficiency. On Avalanche, USDe PTs can be minted, bridged, and redeemed through a single interface, offering settlement speed and full composability. This positioning makes Avalanche the home for scalable, fixed–income–style DeFi. PayPal USD (PYUSD0): Payment-Ready Money Stablecoins are evolving beyond trading tools into payment-ready money. PYUSD0, the omnichain version of PayPal USD, is now on Avalanche: Issued by Paxos, distributed via LayerZero, and moved through Stargate Hydra Expanded availability across 140+ blockchains through LayerZero’s distribution network Backed by Avalanche’s instant finality and low fees, enabling remittances, merchant payments, and consumer applications. With PYUSD0, trusted digital dollars from one of the world’s largest payment networks are now composable within Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem. Building the Next Stage of DeFi Avalanche DeFi has doubled its TVL to $2.1B in recent quarters. With Ethena, Pendle, and PayPal USD, the ecosystem is advancing beyond speculative activity into durable financial systems. See it all below: https://www.avax.network/about/blog/defis-next-stage-on-avalanche