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On March 11, 2023, the decentralized finance project Makerdao issued an emergency proposal following the USDC depegging incident that saw the stablecoin dip down to $0.877 per unit. At the time of writing, Makerdao commands $3.1 billion in USDC collateral that backs a portion of the project’s stablecoin, DAI. Makerdao Proposes
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DAI, the fourth-largest stablecoin, with a market cap near $5 billion – and the only top stablecoin backed by a basket of assets, including other cryptocurrencies – suffers from bad branding that could be inhibiting its growth, Christensen said during a call to discuss the protocol’s decentralization plan, called “Endgame.” Original
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The decentralized autonomous organization behind the DAI coin previously purchased $500 million worth of notes and bonds. Source
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The governance token of MakerDAO, MKR, topped gains last week, trackers on Mar. 5 show. MakerDAO leads weekly gains MKR roared roughly 27% in seven days ending Mar. 5, pushing its market cap to over $942m. At this level, MKR outperforms the broader crypto market, including bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH). Top weekly
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Cogent Bank, a Florida-based, state-chartered bank with more than $1 billion in total assets, proposed borrowing up to $100 million in DAI stablecoin from Maker and would have used the funds to extend loans to its corporate and industrial clients, according to the MIP-95 proposal posted on Maker’s governance forum. Source
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Crypto lending platform MakerDAO is voting on a new proposal to bring another commercial bank into its ecosystem, strengthening the connection between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance. As per MakerDAO’s governance forum, Cogent Bank — a Florida-based commercial bank — is proposing to participate with $100 million in loans to MakerDAO’s
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“The advancement of the technology backing stablecoins is a necessary component to unlock the future of finance,” said Johann Eid, vice president of Go-To-Market at Chainlink Labs, the developer firm behind Chainlink. “As more and more traditional financial institutions partner with MakerDAO and assess the applicability of DeFi, the required
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The development of a dedicated lending protocol represents a shift in focus from MakerDAO, which has aligned its revenue model with the issuance of DAI since the latter's inception in 2017. MakerDAO has formed Phoenix Labs, a research and development company that will be tasked with building the Spark Protocol. Original
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The proposed Spark Protocol will leverage Maker’s DAI stablecoin and its crypto assets for liquidity, and would be based on the Aave v3 smart contract system. Source
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Cryptocurrency advocates have been discussing a proposal by the founder of Makerdao, Rune Christensen, to fund a Scientific Sustainability Fund. An idea that aims to combat climate change and misinformation about energy solutions. Christensen is asking for 20,000 MKR tokens to move forward with the idea. The draft of the
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