MakerDAO
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SparkLend has been approved for a doubling of its debt ceiling to 2.5 billion DAI
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DeFi users seem to suffer from itchy palms ahead of an anticipated run for ether to record highs
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Its US Treasurys portfolio has been shrinking since October. Now old-fashioned CDPs are the lion’s share of assets and revenues
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Oracle development has remained sluggish despite its vital role in DeFi — until now
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Rune Christensen’s latest MakerDAO proposal explores a Solana fork to launch a new blockchain
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The depressed TVL in DeFi protocols may be due to lower yield offerings and recent security issues in the ecosystem
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DAI deposits almost doubled following Christensen’s tweet, which said users can tap yields up to 8%
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A class-action lawsuit over Maker liquidations during 2020’s ‘Black Thursday’ crypto crash looks set to finally come to an end
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First, Rune Christensen says, understand human nature, then build mechanisms around it, as he did with MakerDAO’s Endgame update
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MakerDAO’s Endgame is designed to ease governance tensions and ensure the DAO is completely decentralized
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Adapted from Aave, Spark Lend will directly connect end users to the Maker stablecoin
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Voting members were presented with two options: keep USDC as the primary reserve backing its DAI stablecoin, or diversify
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The allocation of reserves toward short-dated Treasuries has boded well for stablecoin issuers, analyst says
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