Tagged: dai

September 5, 2020 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Liquidations System of the Maker Protocol, which supports a leading Ethereum (ETH) based lending system, is a key element that has been developed to ensure that the stablecoin Dai generated in Maker Vaults “remains adequately collateralized.” The Maker Protocol is central or key to… Read More

July 25, 2020 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Exchange, a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform that’s not regulated in any jurisdiction, revealed on July 24, 2020, that it has introduced interest rate swaps for MakerDAO‘s stablecoin, DAI. The DAI stablecoin savings rate contracts offer “up to 160x leverage” on the notional value and… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The controversial Facebook-led Libra project is reportedly the most active project in terms of developer activity, according to CoinCodeCap data. There are 41 active developers working on Libra, meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has 36 active developers, the data site… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Martin Best, CMO at Wirex, confirmed in a blog post on June 4, 2020, that the London-based financial services firm will allow users to purchase, hold and exchange New Zealand dollars (NZD) and 19 other currencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Singapore dollars (SGD), and… Read More

May 13, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, a leading Ethereum-based lending system, is preparing to move to a multi-collateral DAI (MCD or Dai) system. The protocol’s community has closed down the single-collateral Dai (Sai) system, as the decentralized finance (DeFi) solution gets ready for the transition. MCD had been activated on… Read More

May 4, 2020 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maker (MKR) governance token holders have decided (through community voting) to approve a proposal which recommends adding Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an Ethereum-based token backed 1-to-1 by Bitcoin (BTC), as the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol’s (MakerDAO) newest collateral type. WBTC is an ERC-20 compliant token that… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO (MKR), a leading Ethereum (ETH)-based lending protocol, has released a new report that tries to put the events of “Black Thursday” (when the Bitcoin and larger crypto market crashed over 50% between March 12-13, 2020) into context. MakerDAO’s report notes that there are certain… Read More

April 15, 2020 @ 6:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Maker Foundation, which supports the ongoing development of MakerDAO, a leading decentralized Ethereum (ETH)-powered lending facility. The suit alleges that the foundation intentionally misrepresented the risks potential investors in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem could face. The… Read More

April 1, 2020 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Paradigm, a digital asset investment firm, is reportedly the biggest winner of several MKR governance token auctions which were meant to cover about $4.5 million of undercollateralized debt. The auctions, which took place between March 19 and March 28, 2020, managed to raise… Read More

March 26, 2020 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Maker Foundation, an organization that supports the ongoing development of MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that operates an Ethereum-based lending system, has decided to hand over governance (through a smart contract) to MKR token holders. The Maker Foundation said the decision was the initiative’s… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 11:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, has revealed that the decentralized protocol’s second iteration will launch during Q2 2020. It will add new features such as support for additional ERC-20 compliant pairs, more peer to peer price oracles, flash swaps and a new protocol… Read More

March 22, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, a leading Ethereum (ETH)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, is currently in the process of carrying out an auction of MKR governance tokens in exchange for stablecoin Dai, in an attempt to cover around $4.5 million undercollateralized debt. On-chain (blockchain) data reveals that the Maker… Read More

March 17, 2020 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The MakerDAO community is reportedly considering the possibility of adding the USDC stablecoin as an additional type of collateral in order to provide more Dai (another major stablecoin) liquidity into the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. MakerDAO (where DAO stands for distributed autonomous organization) is an… Read More

March 13, 2020 @ 6:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, a leading Ethereum (ETH)-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) credit facility, is reportedly planning to conduct a MKR governance token auction within two days from now. This marks the first time that this type of event will take place in Maker’s history. The MKR auction, called… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has teamed up with Simplex, a digital payment processor, in order to develop a fiat on-ramp for Maker’s Dai (DAI), which is the first decentralized stablecoin (digital currencies pegged one-to-one with major fiat currencies or other real-world assets)…. Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Commerce has added major stablecoin DAI as a new payment option for its merchant client base. As mentioned in a press release from Coinbase’s management, merchants using the Coinbase Commerce platform will be able to take payments made in the DAI stablecoin. Vendors can… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly $1 billion is now locked up into the evolving decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, according to data site DeFi Pulse. The site tracks major Ethereum-based lending protocols including Maker, a projected managed by the Maker Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the MakerDAO initiative, which… Read More

January 2, 2020 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Maker Foundation, a non-profit entity that supports the MakerDAO project, an initiative involving the decentralized stablecoin Dai, revealed that it will be transferring the Maker and Dai trademarks to an autonomous Denmark-headquartered foundation, the Dai Foundation. The Maker Foundation confirms it will also be… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 8:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase announced on Friday the introduction of the first stablecoin for Coinbase Card. The platform reported that it has launched full support for the digital currency, DAI. “Paying with a stablecoin brings something new to the Coinbase Card experience and using a… Read More

January 13, 2019 @ 9:29 pm By Filipe Castro  |  

Are stablecoins the future of cryptoassets? In the quest to develop a digital token with the decentralization aspects of bitcoin and none of the associated volatility has sparked interest from many. From talented tech teams, economists and VCs it seems stablecoin projects have the potential… Read More