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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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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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According to a forum post from Maker DAO, issuer of the U.S. dollar-pegged DAI stablecoin, on Mar. 11, the firm requested an "urgent executive proposal to mitigate risks to the protocol." Maker said that it possessed multiple collaterals "exposed to USDC tail risk" in light of the extraordinary de-pegging of
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On Thursday, the Biden administration released the U.S. president’s 182-page budget proposal for the fiscal year 2024, which aims to “grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.” The budget includes an $835 billion increase in military spending, but the administration claims it will reduce the deficit by
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When the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), the only public stock exchange in Israel, announced that it drafted a proposal for regulation-friendly crypto trading on Feb. 27, it echoed across the crypto industry as a step forward for crypto adoption. However, some experts have framed the proposal as a somewhat
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BitDAO, one of the world’s largest decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), saw its token jump from about 55 cents on Saturday to abut 60 cents on Sunday, a gain of roughly 5%, according to TradingView data. The rise pushed BIT ahead of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) as one of the
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Lawyers representing former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in federal court have requested an extension to file a proposal related to his bail conditions.In a Feb. 24 filing with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Mark Cohen of Cohen & Gressler said the legal team
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“Anchorage Digital Bank, the first and only fully operational OCC-chartered digital asset bank, is unequivocally a ‘qualified custodian’,” said Georgia Quinn, the company’s general counsel, in a statement. “While Anchorage Digital would be largely unaffected by the proposed rule, we plan to work with all stakeholders to ensure any transition
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The proposal was submitted by Lido DAO’s financial unit, Steakhouse Financial, and considers four treasury-related proposals, including whether the DAO should sell or stake the 20,304 ether (worth about $30 million) it holds in its treasury, diversify its stablecoin holdings and sell its protocol surplus of staked eth to finance
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Right now, crypto trading and lending platforms routinely offer custody for crypto customers, but they're not “qualified custodians” under this rule. An appropriate custodian under SEC’s regulations would generally mean a chartered bank or trust company, a broker-dealer registered with the SEC or a futures commission merchant registered with the
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