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MegaETH has activated a MEGA token buyback program funded entirely by net revenue from its USDm stablecoin, turning Treasury\u2011backed yield into a standing bid for its \u201creal\u2011time Ethereum\u201d L2 token after a sharp post\u2011launch selloff.<\/p>\n
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The MegaETH Foundation says its MEGA token buyback plan is now live, with the first repurchase funded entirely by net earnings from USDm accumulated through the end of April. In an announcement on X, the foundation said it had \u201ccompleted the first MEGA buyback using all net income generated by USDm\u2019s issuer as of April 30,\u201d framing the move as the start of an ongoing demand loop where the ecosystem\u2019s stablecoin revenue is recycled into the native token.<\/p>\n
Importantly, the foundation reiterated that \u201cUSDm is not issued or operated by the MegaETH Foundation or MegaLabs,\u201d clarifying that the stablecoin\u2019s issuer is a separate entity even though its economics are tightly coupled to MEGA. USDm is a yield-bearing stablecoin built on Ethena\u2019s USDtb rails, with reserves primarily invested in BlackRock\u2019s tokenized U.S. Treasury fund BUIDL via Securitize, alongside liquid stables for redemptions. Those reserves generate a predictable yield, which flows to the USDm issuer and, under the new scheme, is then used as the funding source for MEGA buybacks.<\/p>\n
CoinMarketCap\u2019s overview of MegaETH notes that the MEGA token has a fixed supply of 10 billion and is used for gas, staking and governance within the \u201creal-time Ethereum\u201d L2, which targets sub-millisecond latency and over 100,000 transactions per second. By tying MEGA buybacks to USDm\u2019s revenues, the foundation is effectively turning stablecoin growth and on-chain economic activity into a direct support mechanism for MEGA\u2019s price and scarcity.<\/p>\n
According to the foundation, future MEGA buybacks will be executed \u201cas programmatically as possible,\u201d running automatically according to preset rules instead of being manually timed by the team. The size of each operation \u201cwill not be fixed,\u201d it said, but will depend on \u201cchanges in USDm supply and the yield of the underlying reserve assets,\u201d meaning that as USDm circulates more widely and its Treasury-backed yield rises or falls, the buyback firepower will adjust in tandem.<\/p>\n
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Earlier this year, the MegaETH Foundation outlined a broader economic model in which USDm functions as an \u201ceconomic engine\u201d for the L2: yield from its reserves is used to subsidize sequencer costs and network fees and, now, to fund ongoing MEGA purchases from the market. MEXC\u2019s summary of the plan notes that USDM (often stylized as USDm) \u201cis backed by Ethena and BlackRock\u2019s BUIDL fund,\u201d and that the project will \u201ctrigger MEGA token generation based on KPIs\u201d such as reaching $500 million in USDm circulation, launching 10 apps on MegaETH, or having at least three apps generate $50,000 in fees for 30 consecutive days. DefiLlama data show USDm\u2019s broader MegaETH stablecoin stack now has a market cap of about $810.6 million, with USDm itself accounting for roughly 58% dominance, implying a USDm supply in the neighborhood of $470\u2013$480 million.<\/p>\n
The timing of the first buyback is notable. AInvest reported that MEGA fell about 38% from its April 30 launch price to $0.138 amid heavy post\u2011TGE selling pressure from early participants. CoinMarketCap\u2019s explainer on MegaETH says the ecosystem was designed from the outset to \u201cuse its native stablecoin\u2019s reserve yield to fund MEGA buybacks,\u201d positioning this week\u2019s announcement as the moment when that theoretical flywheel actually starts to spin. If USDm continues to grow and on-chain yields remain robust, the programmatic buyback mechanism could become a persistent marginal buyer of MEGA in secondary markets, linking the token\u2019s long-term value more tightly to real usage and stablecoin demand rather than one-off hype cycles.<\/p>\n
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