DeFi lending protocol MakerDAO announced that the first phase of its highly anticipated ‘Endgame’ is planned for a summer 2024 launch. Phase 1 will involve the back-to-back release of all of Endgame’s major features. MakerDAO emphasized these as the essential drivers of growth. The objective is to rapidly establish a fully functional virtuous cycle where...Read More
The crypto sentiment seems to have flipped bullish after last year’s gains, and one MakerDAO data point may suggest that optimistic leveraged bets are making a comeback. The data point in question is MakerDAO’s revenue matrix and the fact that crypto-backed loans are now the DeFi protocol’s biggest revenue contributor above Maker’s much-vaunted real-world asset...Read More
Maker (MKR) witnessed a noteworthy surge in activity in the first week of the year. The crypto asset climbed to $2,140, a level not seen since April 2022. As a result of the price action, MKR’s monthly gains surged to exceed 50%. This impressive rise seems to be associated with the accumulation of MKR by...Read More
Maker’s native token – MKR – suffered significant losses during the market crash triggered by TerraUST in May 2022. During that period, DAI stood out as one of the leading stablecoins utilizing an algorithmic mechanism, a feature it shared with the ill-fated UST stablecoin. Following the widespread bearish downturn, the MakerDAO team swiftly implemented measures...Read More
Remilia Corporation’s Creative Director and Artist, Sprite Bonkler, has announced that Remilia’s co-founders have filed a lawsuit against one of Milady’s founders, Charlotte Fang, and the Delaware Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). Charlotte has been accused of orchestrating a plan to take over Remilia’s functions, resources, and a vast collection of important digital assets. Allegations Against...Read More
Stablecoin issuer and decentralized finance protocol MakerDAO has added $100 million worth of Real-World Assets (RWAs) via BlockTower Andromeda over the last two days. These funds were predominantly allocated to short-term US Treasury bonds offering an attractive annual yield of 4.5%. MakerDAO’s cumulative RWA assets currently stand at approximately $2.7 billion, based on data from...Read More
MakerDAO’s recently launched lending platform, Spark Protocol, has courted significant backlash over its decision to ban VPN users on the front end. The initial motive was to prevent US-based users from accessing the platform. But it prohibits anyone from using a VPN regardless of whether or not they are situated within the US. This has...Read More
MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that issues the DAI stablecoin, has voted in favor of allocating more funds to its current US Treasury investments. The increase in investments in government treasury bonds aims to diversify DAI’s stablecoin liquid backing through exposure to real-world assets (RWAs). MakerDAO Votes to Increase Debt Ceiling by $750 Million The...Read More
Leading decentralized lending protocol MakerDAO has lost its dominance in the DeFi market as liquid staking protocol Lido Finance claimed the top spot with the highest total value locked (TVL). According to data from the DeFi market aggregator, DeFiLlama, Lido Finance currently has $5.9 billion in TVL, with MakerDAO and AAVE taking second and third...Read More
MakerDAO – the issuer of the decentralized stablecoin DAI – unanimously passed a proposal this week to remove renBTC as a form of reserve collateral. The Bitcoin-pegged token was deemed too risky to hold exposure to in light of its connections to the now-bankrupt trading desk Alameda Research. Alameda and Ren As announced by MakerDAO...Read More
Nikolai Mushegian – an early contributor to MakerDAO – has been found dead at 29 after reportedly drowning at sea in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The developer was known within the crypto community for supporting multiple projects and technologies, with some calling him the “DAI architect.” Mushegian’s Passing The local news outlet El Nuevo Dia...Read More
The decentralized stablecoin protocol MakerDAO has committed to converting $500 Million of its DAI reserves into bonds and U.S. treasuries. This marks the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)’s the first investment in high-quality government debt. As MakerDAO explained over Twitter, MKR holders voted to deploy its peg stability module’s USDC on liquid bonds, using its recently...Read More
Users of MakerDAO, the organization behind DAI, will now be able to mint the stablecoin for free. This was made possible after an executive vote increased the debt ceiling for its stETH vault to 200 million DAI. The higher debt ceiling is expected to minimize its dependency on support from centralized collateral assets. As such,...Read More
MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen recently proposed removing all USDC from the DAI stablecoin’s peg-stability module. He suggested that the USDC within, worth $3.5 billion, could be used to buy ETH instead. Yet despite what such a conversion could do to boost ETH’s price, Vitalik Buterin said it was a “terrible idea.” Removing Exposure to USDC...Read More
After paying back an additional $41.2 million in Dai to decentralized lending platform Maker, Celsius Network now can reclaim approximately $450 million worth of BTC locked up as collateral on the protocol. Celsius has been actively paying back its loans to Maker in the past few days in a bid to drastically lower the liquidation...Read More
Celsius Network has repaid yet another $34.43 million of its debt to MakerDAO as the former blue-chip company tries to avert a total collapse. This marks the second such repayment in less than 24 hours. Vault 25977, reportedly owned by Celsius, showed a series of payments starting June 14. Its liquidation has dropped to $2,722. Earlier...Read More
Currently, DAI is the fifth-largest stablecoin by market capitalization. Tether (USDT) may have continued to be the market leader after all these years, but DAI has the perk of being open-source and decentralized – something that’s sought after in the DeF community. DAI Ascends According to Makerburn, the total supply of MakerDAO’s DAI, a decentralized...Read More
Klaytn, a blockchain project backed by South Korean Internet giant, Kakao, has announced that Maker Foundation, the organization bootstrapping the Ethereum-based MakerDAO project, has joined the Governance Council of the Klaytn public blockchain. We are excited to announce that #MakerDAO which generates stablecoin, #Dai is joining the #Klaytn Governance Council. Please check out the blog...Read More
The DeFi space continues to expand as the total value locked in protocols has recently almost hit $11 billion. More interestingly, BTC value locked in DeFi is also on the rise as there are currently around 141,000 bitcoins locked in various lending protocols. RSK’s infrastructure framework (RIF) has recently integrated Maker’s DAI stablecoin into its...Read More
Even though Tether [USDT] had been the popular choice among cryptocurrencies with a large fraction of supply share, other stablecoins have all been witnessing growing prominence. Among these was Dai, created via the Maker Dao stablecoin system and USDC. Although the use of Dai was mainly limited to the Defi ecosystem it has been witnessing...Read More
MakerDAO vault holders who lost about $2.5 million during Black Thursday will not receive any compensation following a governance vote that ended on Tuesday. While decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to garner attention, issues like the type suffered by the MakerDAO project earlier in the year continue to plague the market as a whole. MKR Holders...Read More
The sudden jump of total value locked on the DeFi platform Compound has caused a flippening event in the decentralized finance sector. The TVL on Compound surpassed MakerDao’s as of yesterday, and the gap continues expanding today. Compound Overtakes MakerDAO MakerDAO has been the predominant force for total value locked for years, according to data...Read More
The price of Compound (COMP) tokens is seeing a massive surge amid a manic week for the decentralized finance (DeFi) project, which included a listing announcement by U.S. crypto exchange giant Coinbase. Compound TVL Crosses $400M TVL Milestone With the number of lenders on the Compound protocol increasing rapidly, data from DeFiPulse shows the project...Read More
Coinbase Pro, the professional trading platform of leading American cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase, is adding support for Maker DAO’s token (MKR) again after a failed listing attempt in April 2019. MKR Trading Starts Tuesday, June 9 According to a Friday announcement, Coinbase Pro will start accepting MKR deposits from users on Monday, June...Read More
The Maker Foundation is being sued in a class-action lawsuit for $28 million over the March 12 event that caused over $2 million in liquidations. The lawsuit alleges that the team behind the Makerdao project did not explain the extreme risk of loss to investors. Also read: ETH Price Strains Defi Collateral Loans as ‘Black...Read More
The primary pull of decentralized crypto assets is financial freedom from the flawed banking system. Bitcoin is one step but without greater adoption it is still just a speculative vehicle. DeFi and decentralized protocols based on banking are another and they’re gaining traction fast.Crypto Exchanges too CentralizedMany envisaged 2019 being the year of the DEX....Read More
At her first press conference as head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde outlined her plans to lead the ECB “ahead of the curve” in the field of digital currency. “There is clearly a demand out there that we have to respond to,” she said, referring to stablecoins. Also read: Regulatory Roundup –...Read More
In the weeks following dramatic new restrictions regarding the acquisition of both bitcoin and USD in Argentina, the local crypto community has reacted in a number of interesting ways, showing both the possibilities of Bitcoin as a financial tool in the face of government constraints as well as the decentralized crypto asset’s resilience to measures...Read More
Singapore-based Huobi is expanding its presence in decentralized finance (DeFi). The crypto exchange announced support for two autonomous loan making vehicles, the infamous MakerDao and a similarly open-sourced Compound protocol, according to an August 19 statement. Both ethereum-based protocols serve as “market-makers” by allowing borrowers to take out liquid loans against a pool of assets....Read More
The Takeaway: Monolith turned a $16.9 million ICO into $25 million-worth of assets by riding the bull market of 2017 then taking out DAI loans. This DAI strategy is increasingly common among ethereum-centric startups. MakerDAO and Monolith are now collaborating to connect DeFi loans to a European Visa debit card. Ether fans can spend crypto...Read More
