Launch Season is upon us!
Endgame focuses MakerDAO towards scalable resilience and sustainable user growth: The goal is 100 billion Dai and beyond
Launch Season will bring the most important yield farming and UX features rapidly to market
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Maker is about to market dump $600 million worth of ETH unless someone can phone up this 7 Siblings guy and tell him to top up his vaults in the next 30 mins.
I'm confident the Dutch Auctions will hold up but not sure how the market will react
Guys...
Ethereum is great
Solana is great
Cosmos is great
etc.
All chains are increasingly interconnected and synergize to form a global multichain network economy.
Tribalist incels(of every flavor) are in the wrong decade, go back to bitcoin and let the rest of us build.
The last phase of Endgame is the launch of a native blockchain for Maker with the codename NewChain
It will make the ecosystem more secure and efficient
After some research, I believe the Solana codebase should be considered as the basis for NewChain
If the US bans or seriously interferes with the innovation happening in DeFi, it will be an own goal 10 times worse than China cracking down on DiDi, which paralyzed innovation
DeFi today is the most rapidly innovating sector in tech, and most of that innovation is US-centric.
Look, UST and MIM are solid ponzis and I respect that. You can make good money off them for sure. But they are not built for resilience and they are going to 0 once the market turns for real
Now stop trying to scam users looking for actual stability into being ur exit liquidity
Looks like he didn't react. 600 million in selling is now locked in and will happen over the next hours - exactly how long depends on what happens to the ETH price.
Time to scoop that dip
Since Terra hasn’t collapsed, it’s now proven that algo stablecoins work. I am making a proposal to Maker Governance that we convert Dai to the UST model.
This means we won’t need collateral anymore, so the proposal would use the $9.6 billion of collateral to buy and burn MKR
A multichain future is a multisig future.
L1's by definition have unique security and governance models that means it is impossible to build trustless bridges between them, since the definition of trustless changes based on which side of the bridge you're standing.
Société Générale, the third largest bank in France, just made a collateral onboarding application to Maker for 20 million USD.
Backed by EUR bonds, proposed by their blockchain subsidiary.
Nikolai was one of the only people in the early days of Ethereum and smart contracts who was able to predict the possibility of smart contract hacks and invented the security-oriented approach to smart contract design we know today. Maker would have been toast without him
Once ETH flips BTC and the merge is done with staking widely accessible, ETH will be in a much more stable king-of-the-hill-equilibrium than BTC ever was.
There's just nothing that can touch the raw economics and extremely diversified network effects of such an asset.
After waiting for almost 5 years, it is surreal that the full vision of Dai that we dreamed up so many years ago, has now been realized and is functional right now
4 million Dai was just minted with WBTC in a single transaction. This really showcases the latent demand for non-ETH assets, and it's the beginning of a broader trend of DeFi acting as an economic vacuum that will eventually attract almost all value to the Ethereum blockchain.
Heard today that there’s a good chance all EU national financial regulators will interpret DeFi frontends to require a MiCA license. This would make DeFi frontends on normal internet domains, as we know them today, impossible. Only fully decentralized, local, downloaded frontends…
Uh... Am I reading it right that MIM is backed by about 45% centralized stablecoins?
underlying centralized stablecoins:
40% from CVX3pool, 4% tricrypto and 1% yvUSDC
Other than the UST doesn't look bad - but a bit ironic that there's more centralized stables than Dai, no?
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While broader crypto is in shambles, Maker continues to grow its position as the biggest in DeFi
Everyone else shitcoin'd and ponzi'd. Maker built stuff that works & in the last month Dai grew by 400m
Next up is SubDAOs and they will be a gamechanger for growth in crypto
Lol did not expect that someone literally left the zoom call! Pretty sure it was a mistake though.
The point I wanted to make is DeFi today disproportionately benefits the US economy, and it would be a historical mistake to push that to e.g. Euro or CHF
Maker is in the position to use the most powerful tool ever invented - money - to deal with the existential threat of climate change.
Clean Money grows and generates value through positive environmental impact
Strangling the golden goose of DeFi means trying to compete with China by using the CCPs playbook of command-and-control.
Obviously, China would crush the US in such a competition
America's only way forward is to continue to play to its biggest strength: Free market innovation.
Curve getting exploited. Risk of bad debt and liquidations in the ecosystem.
This might seems like an “it’s over” moment, but perhaps it’s just this cycles Black Thursday - the last crash before the bull market, with everything coming back 100x stronger
If ETH becomes number 1, it will go to infinity and it will never be possible to even imagine another flippening scenario. It would require a 0 to 1 moment like inventing the programmable blockchain
I hope maker can play a big part in making this a reality
Dai Savings Rate is now live paying out 8% at no additional risk compared to holding Dai.
Can be accessed at:
(Not available for Americans or VPN users)
ETH is back as the no.1 Dai collateral at 41% 🥳
USDC down to 37.7%
Dai growth over the past month is 1.4 billion to 7.9 billion total Dai in circulation
This is all *before* Staked ETH and Direct Deposit Modules have come online. 10 billion soon.
300 million Dai in circulation!
This is a big milestone because it's approaching the scale where MakerDAO can be long run self sustainable and self funded through protocol income.
Now lets get to a billion by adding both more crypto and real world assets as collateral.
Someone just generated 66,500,000 Dai with ETH in a single burst of a couple of vaults
@MakerDaiBot
That's literally equivalent to the entire supply Dai had for most of its life.
Excited to see
@AaveAave
getting in the Real World Assets game with tokenized real estate. RWAs are critical if DeFi is going to scale to have an impact on the real economy
Maker also has a lot of incredible MIP6 collateral onboarding applications for RWAs
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EVM is still the most important when it comes to building stuff for users, since that’s where the users are. But for a specialized backend for Maker’s specific needs it is not ideal, and solutions like Solana or something like Sei are a much better fit.
If UST is abandoned and Terra is transitioned to a regular blockchain, the token of that blockchain is the rightful claim of current UST holders, and should be airdropped to them in place of their worthless UST stablecoins.
LUNA holders must accept 0, as they signed up for.
Maker Endgame is a series of 5 major product launches that will take Maker to the forefront of DeFi and AI innovation.
It involves a new brand, new stablecoin and governance token, 6 new SubDAOs distributed through farming and Governance AI Tools
Global emissions are 110 million tCO2/day, and Klima buys about 1.75 million tCO2/day, so it's offsetting about 1.6% of total global emissions
may not sound like much but it's a crazy achievement considering it's just code
Any data from OHM if this rate is sustainable?
⚫️🤯 We've helped incentivize over 7 MILLION tonnes of carbon to be brought on-chain as $BCT.
Here's a few comparisons to put into perspective just how much carbon that is...
Looks like Maker vaults are coming to Arbitrum and Optimism (And possibly Starknet) in Q2 :0
And don't forget the Dai they generate will all be connected through the Maker Wormhole bridge which will be free, instant & trustless
What's the best thing I can do if I want to help out with building traction on Arbitrum? In terms of maximum impact with the capital I have available. LP on balancer?
What kind of project was the primary catalyst for other recent altchain booms?
If you’re considering suicide please read this thread
Nothing destroys a man like losing all your money, I have tried it myself. But it is just money, the pain is a flood of chemicals in your brain. It will fade. Life is so much more than crypto and money
PSA: Because Dai is not an algo stable, the extreme edge case of instantly losing billions in demand does not pose even the slightest risk to Dai or the Maker protocol
There's literally $6 billion of USDC and USDP in the PSM actively market making Dai 1:1 at all times.
KYC cannot be implemented on a decentralized stablecoin as it can’t be done without a centralized backdoor, which negates the decentralization and turns the entire thing into something like a bank.
In Dai’s case the contract is immutable and physically can’t be changed.
I’m sorry to the people who got hurt when i claimed there’d be no Chainlink without Maker. Obviously it’s hyperbole. But I wish the link community would take a look at all the hate that was spammed across the different threads and reconsider whether its a good marketing strategy
With Maker Endgame we hope to flip the table on DAOs today being a laughable and almost fraudulent organizational structure
The future of DAOs is to be the best and most direct way of leveraging AI and open data for effective human organization and capital allocation at scale
Right now DeFi is exclusively using USD stablecoins at scale, and most tokenized assets in DeFi are from US
This has already resulted in tens of billions of capital inflows to the US economy, entirely through organic innovation
and every day it grows exponentially further
If the actual token holders of a DAO aren't empowered to be in charge and to actively participate and understand its inner workings, it simply becomes a game of extraction by the bureaucratic class. There's no legal obligations, so there are no consequences for corruption.
The time has come to decentralize the broken financial system & replace it with a system that benefits everyone
Maker Endgame achieves this through the power of DeFi and DAOs:
Overcoming their weaknesses, doubling down on their strengths, and kicking DeFi growth into overdrive
Vault
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(ETH-A) was used to generate DAI:
️️🖨️ 100,000,000 DAI minted
📉 Liquidation price: $1,355.37
💳 Vault debt: 496,806,171 DAI 🐋
🏦 Total DAI Supply: 6,560.625M DAI
If you are sitting comfortably in a safe country and feel outraged about the horrible terrorism that happened to innocent israelis, and the terrible consequences that are now happening to innocent palestinians, there IS something you can do which isn't just hyping up shitposts…
How is Dai engineered for resilience?
Threadooor time
Resilience is determined by the weakest link, and isn't just about checking some boxes. It's a fundamental question of culture:
"Is the security of your users your core mission?"
A proposal for a redesign of the Maker auction system into Dutch auctions, which supports flash loans and instant arbitrage with broader DEX and DeFi liquidity, was just posted to the Maker forum. Please join the discussion!
This means DeFi is a golden goose of strategic importance:
Technology is the single most important frontier of economic growth and competition. The US political establishment already clearly knows this, and is acting accordingly in many other sectors.
Turns out it was the future of France all along! :D
Amazed that I had no clue about this at all the whole time. This is one of multiple recent examples in Maker Governance of how the post-foundation model of organization is proving to be more scalable
This means that on a very long timescale, only one L1 can survive. In the long term equilibrium new participants will always choose the network that is largest. This will create a single L1 (with many L2's), just like we dont have two disconnected internets
Boarding the plane to Switzerland. Given the traction of Blockchain and DeFi I’m hopeful that this will be great opportunity to spread the message to a wider audience beyond the crypto bubble.
Just went back on Bloomberg TV again after the hilarious mouse issue last week. I'm very excited about the positive political momentum that has been created for crypto and DeFi in the US, and the mature level of discussion that was had on the Senate floor.
Davos is a unique experience. I can see why many people have a love/hate relationship with the event; I was able to make important connections and evangelize DeFi and Blockchain to some of the worlds top investors and decision makers that would have been impossible anywhere else
Even after all this crazy dumping LUNA’s market cap is still 6x Maker. Honestly impressive how gigantic it got. I feel sorry for all the innocent people that got suckered into it
Legit probably the greatest life pro tip ever: L-Theanine. black. tea. There's a reason the shitpost you're crafting is in English. The trick is to drink huge amounts of it in one go and you will feel the effects and srsly there's no other comparable nootropic IMO
Like this post says it’s really baffling how utterly unaware virtually *all* Europeans are of how bad Europes future looks right now. Considered a joke internationally, almost incapable of innovation, deranged entitlement politics, and most dangerous of all: nobody cares or even…
The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become
Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war
Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything…
Dai demand has completely exploded in the last 6 months. The high yield farms are gone, but there is still almost 900 million USD of demand for Dai, even at 1.01!
It's impossible to say how high the demand will be for Dai at 1.00 and a positive DSR - but it's a lot more.
I'm so proud of the Maker Foundation team in how professional, efficient and aligned the team has been at preparing MCD launch.
It's been truly amazing to see everything being finished up and come together in these last few weeks. Monday!!
Crypto is oh so futuristic and techsmart, but somehow is completely 100% ignorant of the climate calamity. Took you 12 minutes to get an M.D. in corona but lets not learn about how close we are to extinction - lets focus on how we can greenwash bitcoins electricity consumption
I would love to hear more input in this great reddit thread about the risks of including diversified real world assets as MCD collateral.
There's been a lot of high quality discussion about this recently, so please help gather all the arguments here.
Knowing that any traction they create can be "easily" cannibalized because you have the local advantage of being decentralized.
I know I'm grossly oversimplifying but i stand by the core argument and look forward to the 200 mad notifs tomorrow. Have a good weekend.
LDO is this cycles LDO. It's a core infrastructure with dominant, locked in PMF building on top of ETH, staking, the merge etc. Almost guaranteed to outperform ETH
Want to help bring Dai back to the peg and grow DeFi? Apply for collateral onboarding grants, and get paid to onboard your favorite ERC20 as Dai collateral.
Seriously the trend of using multisigs to replace and duct tape over issues in blockchain is fine as a short term solution, but those who imagine them as long term solutions that can be relied on as core infrastructure should be sacrificed to satoshi.
What I’m most worried about is all the rumors of suicides by regular people leaving behind families because they couldn’t face losing their family savings.
They were targeted in the most cynical and wanton manner with zero regard to inform them of the risk they were taking.
UST is worse than Bitconnect.
At least Bitconnect didn’t masquerade as a stablecoin.
When your ponzi targets people’s savings (not investment) portfolio, there is a special place in hell reserved for you.
Half of CT influencers, VCs, and trading firms are complicit.
This should be more widely understood. You can borrow against ETH at a 2% rate with 145% overcollateralization and even as low as 0.5% on Maker, and this is with a 2 hour grace period for liquidations which afaik no other platform offers.
LMAO, Maker is boring they said...
how many songs have been made about your protocol, anon?
also come join us in discord if you want to see it from the inside:
Found this simple guide on discord if you're considering aping into KLIMA tomorrow
Pls only do this with money you can afford to lose, it is high risk financial gamification based on OHM used for a wonderful purpose: to increase the cost of CO2 pollution
Multisig bridges succeeding, and as a result creating a multisig-multichain dumpster fire where every crypto asset is actually custodied by a 5-of-7 would disprove the need for blockchain tech at all.
So... Lets accept that there is no real interoperability between L1's.
The exec passed! PSM for USDC and USDP is going to 0% fees 0% spread = unlimited 1:1 exchange between Dai, USDC and USDP as long as Maker has reserves
Will activate in 48 hours