Engineering
Design for Adversity: Atelligo
Ethena has partnered with Atelligo, an intelligence and remediation platform purpose-built for phishing detection, brand protection, and coordinated takedown operations.
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Engineering
Design for Adversity: Lessons from the rsETH Incident
In the spirit of our earlier post on building systems that assume compromise at every layer, we’re sharing a transparent, engineering-first look at the recent Kelp DAO / LayerZero OFT exploit, our response, and why Ethena assets and infrastructure were not susceptible to the same risks.
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Design for Adversity
On 22nd March 2026, Resolv Labs’ USR stablecoin suffered a significant exploit. In the spirit of shared learning, we outline key design principles that can help mitigate such risks - including on-chain bounds, atomic collateral tying, and fast automated containment.
Engineering
Ethena Engineering Blog: Gas Price Estimation on Ethereum
Why Ethereum Gas Price Estimation Matters for DeFi Gas price estimation is the backbone of efficient Ethereum transactions, directly impacting the performance and cost of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols like Ethena. For Ethena, a synthetic dollar protocol, precise Ethereum gas price estimation ensures seamless minting and redeeming of USDe, delivering
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Ethena Engineering Blog: Proof of Reserves
TL;DR Today, Ethena Labs launches a Proof of Reserves (PoR) system for USDe, Ethena’s synthetic dollar, to cryptographically prove its backing - transparently reserved, governance-approved, and USD-delta-neutral. Built on AWS Nitro Enclaves, it pulls data from custodians, exchanges, and the blockchain, processes it in a tamper-
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Ethena Engineering Blog
Mitigating Social Engineering Threats TL;DR In October 2024, our team detected and swiftly thwarted an attempted social engineering attack aimed at compromising our primary account on X.com. The attacker’s strategy included sophisticated identity forgery and social engineering of staff at X.com to circumvent standard security measures,
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Ethena Engineering Blog
Lessons Learned on Domain Security Management TL;DR On 18th September 2024, we experienced a security incident where a malicious actor briefly gained access to our domain registrar account for ethena.fi. Despite the domain registrar account being secured with a username, a password managed through a secure password manager,