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The new blockchain called NewChain will be closely linked with Ethereum, promising increased governance security of the ecosystem. MakerDAO, the issuer of the DAI stablecoin, has revealed its plans for a major update it calls the “Endgame”, this follows after the platform recently published a detailed roadmap of the upcoming update. According
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MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that operates on the Ethereum blockchain and issues stablecoin DAI, has announced that it has launched the Spark Protocol, a lending solution for DAI users. Announcing the Spark Protocol launch ⚡️Starting May 9, 2023, Spark Protocol will be available to all DeFi users.An end-user, DAI-centered DeFi product
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Maker, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols, is led by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), in which holders of its native maker (MKR) token vote on proposals. The protocol also issues the $5 billion DAI stablecoin, backed by some $7 billion worth of assets in Maker’s reserves. Original Source
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MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that governs the Dai (DAI) stablecoin, has passed a new proposed “constitution” intended to formalize governance processes and help prevent hostile actors from taking over the protocol, according to the official forum page for the proposal.The Maker Constitution has been approved by Maker Governance.The Endgame
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“While there are plenty of imperfections in the Endgame reforms and the constitutional processes, we are better off uniting around the clean slate those reforms provide and working to make the new Maker as dynamic and successful as possible,” delegate platform Frontier Research posted on Maker’s governance forum. Original Source
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MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that governs the DAI stablecoin, has voted overwhelmingly to keep USD Coin (USDC) as the primary collateral for DAI. An alternative proposal to “diversify” collateral into Gemini U.S. Dollar (GUSD) and U.S. Dollar Paxos (USDP) has been rejected in a 20% to 79% vote,
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The decision follows a turbulent period during which USDC temporarily lost its dollar peg when key banking partner SVB collapsed. Source
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Lending protocol and stablecoin issuer MakerDAO passed a proposal on March 16 to increase its portfolio holdings of United States Treasury bonds by 150%, from $500 million to $1.25 billion.The proposal aims to increase the protocol’s exposure to real-world assets and “high-quality bonds,” following its Dai (DAI) stablecoin losing its
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Under the proposal, the community would adopt an emergency switch that would pause peg-stability-module (PSM) swaps on its protocol, freezing the token purchases required to mint new DAI tokens, Sam MacPherson, a protocol engineer at MakerDAO, told CoinDesk. Original Source
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MakerDAO is insulating itself from the vulnerability to risk associated with stablecoins according to the firm’s new proposal. It is a reaction to the recent depegging of USDC, which has rekindled worries over stablecoins in poor market circumstances. This proposal has seen MKR gain over 5% in the last 24
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