The Managed Stablecoin Era
Last week's rotation out of pooled DeFi lending was not a retreat from stablecoin yield. It was the clearest signal to date that the...
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Research NoteMarket Structure
May 14, 20267 min
From Private to Public, On-Chain: What the Cerebras Listing Proves About Hyperliquid
By ArkenYield
Cerebras became the first company whose pre-IPO perpetual traded on Hyperliquid and then graduated to an actual Nasdaq listing. The full private-to-public equity lifecycle now runs on-chain, and that says more about where institutional market infrastructure is heading than the trade itself does.
A pre-IPO perpetual is a price-discovery venue for private fair value. An IPO is a price-discovery event for public demand. The Cerebras listing showed they are not the same number.
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Weekly BriefingStablecoin Report
May 10, 202614 min
Stablecoin Weekly: The Operating Model Goes Live
By ArkenYield
Stablecoin payment rails moved from announcement into operation across multiple counterparties in the same week the bank lobby and the ECB formally hardened their positions against the operating model, and the Aave rsETH recovery cleared its final legal hurdles.
The week made the operating model legible. Multiple rails moved from announcement to operational, the bank lobby and the ECB formally moved against them, and the Aave rsETH recovery effectively closed.
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Weekly BriefingStablecoin Report
May 3, 202613 min
Stablecoin Weekly: The Payments Crossover
By ArkenYield
Four separate operators (Visa, Meta and Stripe, Walmart-backed OnePay, Western Union) announced material stablecoin rail integrations in the same week the CLARITY Act compromise scoped the yield question, while Aave shifted from emergency mode to systematic right-sizing and the new MegaETH USDe/USDM leveraged-loop economy emerged after the May 1 MEGA TGE.
Stablecoins crossed into named-counterparty payments infrastructure. Four operators (Visa, Meta, OnePay, Western Union) announced material rail integrations as the CLARITY Act compromise text scoped the yield question in the same window.
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Weekly BriefingStablecoin Report
Apr 26, 20269 min
Stablecoin Weekly: Coordinated Recovery
By ArkenYield
Aave's bad-debt resolution moved from open question to coordinated industry response, Ethena restructured what backs USDe, Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo crossed into named bank-and-enterprise onboarding, and yield spreads compressed back toward the tokenized-treasury base layer.
The week's question stopped being whether the system could absorb a $200M loss event and became how it actually does, what changes structurally in the doing, and where premiums above the base layer settle once the dust clears.
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