LESSONS FROM BINANCE'S DEPEG CHAOS

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Exchanges must margin collateral based on their own liquidity and solvency, not global parity, just as commodities trade differently across local markets like Dalian or Chicago. While Ethena's USDe remained solvent, Binance couldn't assume recovery without taking market risk. The episode demonstrates that DeFi and cross-chain systems depend on local liquidity realities, and oracles tied to mainnet prices may not reflect true collateral value on frontier chains or isolated venues, a challenge that extends to tokenized RWAs as well.