MKR token holders now have total control over the smart contract underpinning the MakerDAO protocol. The Maker Foundation has handed governance over the smart contract that underpins the MakerDAO (MKR) protocol to MKR token holders. Describing the move as the project’s “most significant step” toward decentralized governance, the foundation announced that a three month long…
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Uniswap announced the planned release of the second major version of the platform, which will feature a better price feed oracle while introducing a variant of the flash loan. The Uniswap decentralized exchange announced on March 23 a planned release of its second major version, Uniswap V2. Among the major features, the new platform will…
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The auction to recapitalize MakerDAO is almost over as the Black Thursday crisis comes to an end, though complex governance issues remain unsolved. The MakerDAO (MKR) auction to recover DAI collateral debt is almost complete, though the procedure suffered some technical setbacks. The community largely remains optimistic about Maker’s handling of the situation, as many…
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OKEx Director of Financial Markets Lennix Lai explains why crypto is a perfect fit for people who want to earn passive income. First, there were property rents. Then came interests. As modern civilization evolves, people always find new ways to earn money without actually producing, or even doing all that much. This concept is today…
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The first MakerDAO debt auction is underway, and is expected to last anywhere between six and 72 hours. MakerDAO hopes to fill the multi-million dollar gap in the collateral backing its DAI stablecoin following last week’s Ethereum market volatility, as Cointelegraph reported. Today the organization successfully launched its first debt auction to that end. The…
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The upcoming MakerDAO auction is set to cover the protocol’s losses during the March 12 Ethereum price crash, with its success being critical for the stability of DeFi. The MakerDAO (MKR) community has locked in an auction to cover a multi-million dollar hole in DAI collateral after the sudden Ethereum (ETH) price crash on March…
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Unconventional analysis of two major decentralized finance projects, based on Ethereum and EOS, which recently went through the same storm. On March 11 at 4:56 p.m. UTC, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organization, stated that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. Industry experts consider the global uncertainty around this respiratory…
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Cryptocurrency-collateralized synthetic currency models can have enormous implications in the traditional finance industry. Why are crypto synthetic assets a big deal? Cryptocurrency-collateralized synthetic currency models powered by smart contracts can have enormous implications in the traditional finance industry. In their essence, these models offer cryptocurrency holders the leverage to trade traditional assets as well as…
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The MakerDAO governance has added the stablecoin USDC as its third collateral type in an attempt to improve liquidity and Dai price stability. The MakerDAO governance has approved the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin as the third collateral type accepted in the Maker Protocol, according to a community post on March 17. The decision was put…
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A crypto project crosses the half-billion threshold. Today stablecoin network PegNet cleared $500 million dollars in conversions, according to data from PegNetMarketCap.com. This means a half-billion dollars in value has moved over the platform’s rails since it launched in August 2019. PegNet is a decentralized non-custodial network of tokens that are pegged to different world…
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