The community had originally voted in favor of compensation, but the final tally showed a different outcome. After multiple rounds of voting and heated discussion, the final vote to compensate losses for Maker (MKR) users that were liquidated “unfairly” during the March crash failed. About 52,500 MKR voted against any compensation, which accounted for 65% […]
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Yearn Finance is launching a MakerDAO like stablecoin lending protocol with no governance token. Popular decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Yearn Finance has announced a new lending protocol dubbed StableCredit. StableCredit combines tokenized debt stablecoins, lending, and single-sided automated market makers to offer what it describes as “a completely decentralized lending protocol” reminiscent of MakerDAO (MKR). […]
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It seems zero interest rates were not enough to keep DAI stable. A MakerDAO (MKR) governance proposal enacted on Tuesday set interest rates on most assets, with the notable exclusion of Ether (ETH), back above 0%. According to Daistats, interest rates for the USDC-A, WBTC and other minor vaults are now back to being at […]
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Political parties on the blockchain could soon become a reality for the DeFi space. Meta-DeFi protocols are becoming increasingly popular following the success of Yearn.finance. The project is essentially a yield farming hedge fund that lets people participate in complex strategies to farm the governance tokens, or GTs, of other protocols. Yearn is just about […]
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Yearn.finance’s yETH vault took in $140 million in ETH over 48 hours, signalling that automated investing may be the next DeFi frontier. Yearn.finance, an automated DeFi yield-farming protocol, has recently launched the latest yvault strategy, yETH. yVault strategies are a set of predefined actions that allow users to deposit funds and have them automatically sent […]
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A massive yield farming strategy finally provides a mechanism to push the DAI price down. A new vault launched on yearn.finance is being credited for finally restoring the peg of Dai (DAI), the algorithmic stablecoin of the MakerDAO (MKR) project. As Cointelegraph previously reported, Maker had struggled with maintaining a strict $1 peg for DAI […]
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A Compound proposal could put a major dent in the profits for all yield farmers. A new Compound governance proposal from Gauntlet founder Tarun Chitra would see all future COMP token distributions locked in a vesting schedule. The proposal was submitted on Wednesday and outlines several ways that the vesting could be implemented. One would […]
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Can teamwork bring together the fragmented crypto space? Huobi DeFi Labs has launched a global DeFi alliance, which is set to establish universal protocol standards for the DeFi space and improve communications within the DeFi ecosystem. The alliance will also conduct research on emerging DeFi protocols to help avoid future crises in the community. The […]
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Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion? The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six […]
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Getting all the facts right is hard, especially when you don’t have internet access. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of SilkRoad, has issued a short follow-up to his essay on MakerDAO (MKR) and how it could be redesigned and improved. The follow-up amounts to a small correction to an assumption he made earlier about the Maker […]
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