Perena is a decentralized finance protocol on Solana that combines on-chain stablecoin yield, tranched vaults, real-world-asset access, borrowing, and payment products in a single risk layer. Perena's Twitter Score is 118 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #6,232 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Perena was founded by Anna Yuan, who previously served as head of stablecoins at the Solana Foundation before launching the protocol. Its core yield token, USD*, is not pegged to $1 in the conventional sense; instead, its value appreciates over time as underlying yield accrues, distinguishing it from traditional stablecoins. Perena's vaults are built on Drift Vault architecture and are structured so that neither the protocol nor its partners hold withdrawal permissions, keeping user funds non-custodial by design.
Perena has attracted backing from a broad set of investors, including Borderless Capital, Binance Labs, Primitive Ventures, Anagram, Maelstrom, Breed VC, Temporal, ABCDE, SevenX Ventures, Pivot Global, Graph Ventures, and MitonC. The protocol has accumulated 43,166 followers as of July 2026 and published 3,138 posts, and has been mentioned by 199 accounts a total of 439 times.
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The accounts that follow Perena include 455 founders, 141 angel investors, 299 influencers and 8 VCs, among them Solana, Toly, Mert, Nic Carter, Robert Leshner and Foobar.