MakerDAO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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