Aegis is a Bitcoin-backed, delta-neutral stablecoin protocol that issues YUSD and jUSD, co-founded by Ermin Sharich. Aegis's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #54,908 among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Aegis went live in April 2025, having raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Dewhales Capital, with participation from Profluent Ventures and angel investors. The protocol is also backed by Flowdesk, WOO X, and Orderly Network. Aegis has published 1,456 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 67 accounts a total of 174 times.
Aegis's core product, YUSD, is collateralized by Bitcoin and hedged through short BTC coin-margined perpetual positions to achieve delta-neutral exposure. The protocol also issues sYUSD, a yield-bearing variant, and jUSD, a digital dollar built on a delta-neutral strategy using Jupiter's JLP token. To support transparency, Aegis provides a native dashboard alongside an Accountable proof-of-reserves dashboard. Smart contracts have been audited by Hacken (November 2024), FailSafe, and Hashlock.
Aegis has launched a Yield-as-a-Service offering that allows external platforms to integrate YUSD and jUSD yield directly. Live integrations include Copper ClearLoop, Jupiter Perpetuals, Orderly Network, Pendle, Curve Finance, LFJ, SushiSwap, and Accountable.
Who follows Aegis on X?
The accounts that follow Aegis include 55 founders, 13 angel investors and 55 influencers, among them Milk Road, Spreek, Pendle, Michael Bentley, Stacy Muur and Chang.