Ethena Foundation Overhauls ENA Tokenomics With Buyouts and Buybacks
Ethena (ENA)
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Eugene Serbin
bitcoinethereumnews.com reports that the Ethena Foundation announced four structural changes to ENA’s tokenomics this week. The updates cover investor buyouts, governance rights, and revenue-driven buybacks. The Foundation bought out all locked tokens from certain major seed investors who had sold portions of their ENA holdings within the past nine months.
This buyout removes their remaining locked allocations from future circulation risk and reduces potential future sell pressure. Ethena Foundation and Ethena Labs signed a Master Framework Agreement assigning intellectual property and protocol value accrual to the Foundation. Token holders now govern that value exclusively, with no separate entity retaining a competing claim over protocol revenue.
Equity investors in the Labs entity lose any residual claim to future cash flows, and the Foundation confirmed no ongoing payments will reach that entity. The Foundation and its lead investors also agreed to end monthly VC unlocks, releasing unvested tokens immediately instead of monthly. A governance proposal to activate a fee switch is now live, directing net revenue toward buying back ENA tokens. The Risk Committee approved the buyback proposal, which covers revenue collected across all business lines under the Ethena brand.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ENA, measured when this story was written up on 28 August 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
ENA is trading at $0.1701 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 50.4% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 57.3%. These short-term readings are higher than the 24-hour buy ratio of 52.3%, indicating that buying pressure is building in the most recent hours. The 1-hour volume delta is +$120,337, while the 4-hour delta is +$1,936,935, showing increasing net inflows. The 24-hour volume delta is +$6,367,162, with a CVD of +$6,484,148 at the close. The buy ratio represents the percentage of volume attributed to buyers versus sellers, while the volume delta measures the net value of those trades. Spot volume over 24 hours reached $137,269,138 across 609,691 trades. Net buying occurred for 17 of the last 24 hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 48.8% sits at the 47th percentile of the last 281 days, against a median of 49.0% - ordinary for this coin.
Twenty-four hours later
What ENA did over the 24 hours after the story broke. The market moves for its own reasons; this is what happened, not what the story caused.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ENA, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the 7-day average buy ratio was 49.8%, making the current 24-hour ratio of 52.3% an unusual day with +2.5 points above average. Volume was 1.74x the average, indicating significantly higher activity than usual. The price changed +45.9% over 8 days, with a total volume delta of +$10,039,317. Net buying was recorded for 3 of the 7 days. This suggests a period of heightened accumulation compared to the weekly baseline.