MakerDAO

Oracle development has remained sluggish despite its vital role in DeFi — until now

The new protocol touts operating costs that are lower than competitors’

Rune Christensen’s latest MakerDAO proposal explores a Solana fork to launch a new blockchain

Entheos has partnered with Plural Energy to use tokenization to fund smart batteries

The depressed TVL in DeFi protocols may be due to lower yield offerings and recent security issues in the ecosystem

DAI deposits almost doubled following Christensen’s tweet, which said users can tap yields up to 8%

A class-action lawsuit over Maker liquidations during 2020’s ‘Black Thursday’ crypto crash looks set to finally come to an end

The DeFi protocol now has a total US Treasury bond allocation of $1.2 billion

The protocol will eventually become a “sub-DAO” in MakerDAO’s Endgame update

First, Rune Christensen says, understand human nature, then build mechanisms around it, as he did with MakerDAO’s Endgame update

MakerDAO’s Endgame is designed to ease governance tensions and ensure the DAO is completely decentralized

Adapted from Aave, Spark Lend will directly connect end users to the Maker stablecoin

The popularity of DeFi has fallen far from its 2020 heights

The transition to metaDAOs and a change in MKR tokenomics continues to draw concerns

MakerDAO constitution will completely revolutionize governance at the DAO

Voting members were presented with two options: keep USDC as the primary reserve backing its DAI stablecoin, or diversify

The allocation of reserves toward short-dated Treasuries has boded well for stablecoin issuers, analyst says

The proposed strategy could see the DAO investing up to $750 million at an annualized yield of about 4.5% after custody and expected trading cost

The effort is designed overall to shore up the stability of DAI

Rune Christensen, a longtime climate activist, wants public good codified as a “central purpose and value of MakerDAO.”

Governance vote creates defense fund intending to alleviate costs for Maker participants exposed to “novel legal risks”

In August, MakerDAO added the bank’s digital asset-focused subsidiary, Societe Generale–Forge, to its vaults with a credit limit of $30 million in DAI after a unanimous vote

A $220 million “real-world asset” vault may soon be available to DeFi investors

The decision to hike savings rates will likely make DAI a more attractive asset for risk-averse investors