1. OGN Buybacks
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Buyback Update: The program has now bought back over 76 million OGN, representing 11.5% of the circulating supply. All buybacks are funded entirely by protocol fees from OETH, OUSD, and ARM Vaults, and other Origin products.
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February Buybacks: ~8.5 million OGN were bought back in February alone, putting the program on pace for over 100 million OGN per year at current protocol performance.
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Staking Rewards: ~50% of the circulating supply is currently staked (xOGN). Max-locked OGN is earning ~17% APY with no new token emissions, all yield is funded by OGN Buybacks.
2. OUSD Performance & Expansion
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Strong APY: OUSD’s 30-day APY is hovering in the 5.6% range, consistently outcompeting many similar low-risk yield-bearing stablecoins.
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Base Expansion Now Live: OUSD’s Phase 2 upgrade is live and capital is now allocated to Morpho markets on Base in addition to Ethereum mainnet. About 25% of collateral is currently deployed on Base. Users still hold OUSD on Ethereum mainnet; yield is captured cross-chain.
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AMO Rebalancing Focus: Increased emphasis on peg management and AMO rebalancing for OUSD. Onchain liquidity is expanding with new curve pools already accumulating over $3M TVL.
3. ARM Vaults (stETH ARM & eETH ARM)
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Strong February Performance: Market volatility boosted ARM arbitrage yields significantly. The staked eETH ARM closed February in the 7% APY range which is roughly 3x the yield of simply holding a liquid staking token with a similar risk profile.
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eETH ARM: The eETH ARM opened for deposits ~2 weeks ago and has already attracted over $2M in TVL. The 30-day average APY is ~6.8%, with a peak single-day APY of 30% on February 7th.
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Upcoming Morpho Listings: Several Morpho curators are considering listing the ARM Vault token as collateral. At ~7% ARM yields, an ARM Morpho Market would enable double-digit ETH yields with a few loops.
4. Ecosystem & Integrations
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superOETH/USDC Morpho Market: Net borrow rate of -2.67% (native rate 4.74% offset by superOETH yield of 6.42% + 1% OP rewards).
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OETH/USDC Morpho Market: Net borrow rate of -6.27% (native borrow rate of 3.58%, OETH yield of 9.76%. A single loop nearly doubles OETH yield; five loops can approach 4x)
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Leverage via Contango: All Borrow Booster markets on Morpho are supported on Contango for easy one-click leverage looping. Auto-deleverage protection is optional on Morpho to automatically unwinds positions if they approach liquidation thresholds.
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New Morpho Market for wOUSD: For the first time, wrapped OUSD can be used as collateral to borrow USDC at ~3.01%. Auto-deleverage is not yet available but has been requested. Contango support coming in the next few weeks.
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4 New OUSD Curve Pools Launching: New pools incentivized this epoch include: OUSD/eUSD, OUSD/USDe, OUSD/pmUSD, and OUSD/avUSD.
5. Product Updates: OETH Compounding Validators Update
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Why Compounding Validators: Origin is migrating OETH’s native staking infrastructure to EIP-7251 compounding validators. This condenses the validator set for better performance and enables partial withdrawals, eliminating the need to fully exit validators.
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Current Status: 3 compounding validators are ready; a 4th comes online next week. Initial capacity is ~8,000+ ETH (~$16M). Full migration targeted for early June.
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Benefits: More frequent yield distribution, simpler partial withdrawals, and improved validator performance. The Ethereum Foundation showed interest in Origin’s approach at ETHDenver.
6. Special Guest: EtherFi
Watch the full call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDKOK5szb_8