Ethena’s ENA token gained 8% reaching $0.44 while Bitcoin and Ethereum fell, as confidence returned following USDe’s stability during recent liquidations.
By Ibrahim Ajibade
Editor Marco T. Lanz
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Ethena ENA $0.44 24h volatility: 8.6% Market cap: $3.14 B Vol. 24h: $640.89 M price rose 8% to $0.44 on October 17, making it one of the few digital assets trading in green amid a widespread crypto market crash. ENA’s performance stood out as cascading market liquidation saw Bitcoin BTC $106 520 24h volatility: 1.7% Market cap: $2.12 T Vol. 24h: $97.29 B and Ethereum ETH $3 827 24h volatility: 1.3% Market cap: $462.14 B Vol. 24h: $53.82 B briefly cede key support levels at $104,000 and $3,700 respectively, on Friday.
Notably, Ethena’s native stablecoin USDe, which temporarily lost its peg to the US dollar during the record-setting $19 billion liquidation event on Oct. 10. At the time, USDe traded as low as $0.65 on Binance, triggering a sharp 50% correction in ENA price from $0.56 to $0.34.
Following the de-peg event, Ethena declared a clean bill of health with an on-chain proof of reserves update, before founder Guy Young clarified that Binance’s oracle used internal order book data with lean liquidity instead of an external feed, causing a temporary mispricing.
Binance promptly acknowledged the anomaly, before announcing a $400 million fund on Tuesday, to reimburse user losses.
As Binance’s $400 million “Together Initiative” eases investor anxiety, USDe also notably maintained its peg through the $1.2 billion market liquidations in the last 24 hours.
October 17, Ethena announced a major expansion of its Stablecoin-as-a-Service (SaaS) product suite to Conduit, a leading rollup deployment platform powering over 60 Ethereum-based networks. According to Ethena’s official X post, the new integration will allow projects using Conduit’s infrastructure to launch their own native stablecoins leveraging Ethena’s collateralized architecture.
Ethena's Stablecoin-as-a-Service stack is now available on @conduitxyz
Conduit powers 55% of chains on Ethereum with $4B+ TVL across 60+ mainnet deployments, powering teams from DeFi to RWAs to consumer apps
With this integration, chains building with Conduit can now access… pic.twitter.com/xMf6BvwYY3
— Ethena Labs (@ethena_labs) October 17, 2025
Conduit currently supports 55% of Ethereum’s active rollups, managing over $4 billion in total value locked (TVL) across decentralized finance (DeFi), real-world assets (RWAs), and consumer-focused applications.
Ethena (ENA) Price Action, Oct. 17, 2025 | Source: Coinmarketcap
At press time, Ethena’s market capitalization stands at $3.14 billion, ranking it among the top 50 crypto by valuation on Coinmarketcap. Trading volume surged 60.5% to $627.9 million, reflecting renewed interest among large investors as the USDe de-peg concerns ease.
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Ibrahim Ajibade is a seasoned research analyst with a background in supporting various Web3 startups and financial organizations. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and is currently studying for a Master’s in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the University of Malta.
