Compare Curve DEX and Ethena on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$1.283B
Curve Finance is an automated market maker optimised for low‑slippage swaps between like‑priced assets such as stablecoins and liquid staking tokens. Its stableswap invariant and meta‑pools keep price impact below 0.05 % even at million‑dollar clip sizes, while veCRV bribing aligns long‑term liquidity incentives. Curve currently handles > $1 billion daily volume across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and ten other chains.
USDe is Ethena’s synthetic dollar backed by delta‑neutral ETH perpetual hedge positions rather than off‑chain treasuries. The collateral basket auto‑rebalances between spot ETH, LSTs and short perps so the net delta remains near zero, turning staking rewards and funding rates into protocol revenue. USDe launched on Ethereum in January 2024 and surpassed $2 billion supply within five months, with deep secondary liquidity on Curve and Bybit.