# Genesis Story In March 2023 Arthur Hayes published his piece ["Dust on Crust"](https://blog.bitmex.com/dust-on-crust/) which outlined his vision for the largest opportunity in crypto - creating a synthetic dollar using crypto collateral and derivatives.\ \ The most important financial instrument on Earth to save and preserve wealth is simply a reward-bearing dollar. It sounds simple, but the demand for this product is several orders of magnitude larger than the entire crypto market combined, including Bitcoin.\ \ Ethena was built to provide this product and in doing so, force the convergence of capital and interest rates across DeFi, CeFi and TradFi via USDe. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.ethena.fi/genesis-story.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.