加密小师妹|Monica
加密小师妹|Monica|2月 27, 2026 03:18
Recently, I have been repeatedly seeing a term: Stablecoin-as-a-Service. The emergence of this pattern actually indicates that the issue of stablecoins has shifted from whether or not to issue coins to who provides the underlying capabilities. In layman's terms, stablecoin as a service is not about issuing another type of US dollar, but rather breaking down the complex processes of issuance, risk control, hedging, settlement, and asset management into a set of infrastructure that can be called upon. Chains or applications do not need to build a complete stablecoin system from scratch, they only need to connect to existing engines to issue their own ecosystem of US dollar assets. Why has everyone been moving in this direction recently? A very practical reason is that stablecoins are no longer just "places to put money". It has begun to deeply participate in trading, lending, derivatives, and payments, with each ecosystem hoping to stabilize assets to serve local liquidity rather than exporting value. But for most teams, the cost and complexity of building their own stablecoin system are too high, so "servitization" has become a more feasible path. From this perspective, the Whitelabel technology stack previously launched by @ ethena actually fits this logic very well. It does not require everyone to use the same stablecoin brand, but rather positions itself as a stablecoin engine provider: Ethena is responsible for hedging structure, risk management, and fund efficiency at the bottom, while the brand and application scenarios at the top are entrusted to specific ecosystems. The interesting aspect of this model is that it shifts stablecoins from competing as a single product to competing in infrastructure. The future differentiation point may not lie in whose scale is larger, but in who can be repeatedly called upon by more ecosystems and truly embedded into trading and capital circulation. The total circulating supply of Ethena's white label stablecoins has exceeded the $100 million mark, and currently the total supply of jupUSD, USDm, and suiUSDe has reached $131 million. In less than 6 weeks, a significant market size was formed. Stablecoin-as-a-Service essentially answers the question of how US dollar assets should become part of the on chain system rather than an external settlement tool. In fact, as early as the FTX era, the market had already started trading stablecoins themselves. The USDT-USD perpetual contract allows traders to directly bet on the credit risk of USDT. For the first time, stablecoins are not just settlement units, but have become priced risk assets. Similar structures are now appearing on more stable assets. For example, the USDe perpetual contract launched by @ felixprotocol essentially continues this idea: allowing the market to express its judgment on stable asset structure through funding rates. When stablecoins begin to be continuously priced and incorporated into long short games, they have actually become part of the derivatives layer, no longer just a medium for carrying trading results.
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