Decentralized stablecoins could dominate crypto: MakerDAO founder

MakerDAO’s Rune Christensen says appropriate regulation will see stablecoins become mainstream, but the real opportunity is in decentralized stablecoins.

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USDC and DAI more susceptible to de-pegging, say analysts

Stablecoins from Circle and MakerDAO have been less stable than those from Tether and Binance in the last couple of years, states a new S&P Global report.

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Stablecoin de-pegging plagued USDC and DAI more than others: Analysts

Stablecoins from Circle and MakerDAO have been more unstable than those from Tether and Binance over the past couple of years, according to a new report from S&P Global.

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New MakerDAO proposal seeks to raise savings rate to 3.33%

Five months after raising the DAI savings rate (DSR) to 1%, the MakerDAO community is expected to soon vote on a new proposal that seeks to increase the DSR further to 3.33%. The last rate hike saw 35 million DAI stablecoins deposited in a span of a month and if the new proposal is to […] The post New MakerDAO proposal seeks to raise savings rate to 3.33% appeared first on Invezz.

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Crypto Lending Protocol MakerDAO Approves Transferring a Maximum of $500M in USDC to Coinbase Custody for 2.6% Yield

The maneuver is part of MakerDAO’s earlier decision to move up to $1.6 billion of USDC stablecoins to Coinbase’s custody arm.

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The DAI is cast: MakerDAO votes to keep USDC as primary reserve

MakerDAO community opts for USDC over other stablecoins as its primary reserve. USDC has since regained its peg, as its exchange reserve drops. In a recent vote, the MakerDAO [MKR] communityThe post The DAI is cast: MakerDAO votes to keep USDC as primary reserve appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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DAI-stressed MakerDAO struggles as users look toward other stablecoins

MakerDAO has seen a decline in TVL, DAI's supply, and annualized fee income in the last week.  MKR shed 25% of its value during the same period. While its DAI stablecoin regained its parityThe post DAI-stressed MakerDAO struggles as users look toward other stablecoins appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Exploring MakerDAO's plans for DAI as stablecoins face FUD

MakerDAO's DAI was safely collateralized, but interest in it was declining at press time. Active development offers hope for MakerDAO's future. Following the collapse of SVB and the stablecoThe post Exploring MakerDAO's plans for DAI as stablecoins face FUD appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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MakerDAO surge following new proposal on stablecoins

MakerDAO is insulating itself from the vulnerability to risk associated with stablecoins according to the firm's new proposal.

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MakerDAO approves 85% Gemini USD holdings in DAI stablecoins

The MakerDAO community voted in favor of keeping Gemini USD stablecoin as part of the protocol’s DAI stablecoin reserves amid concerns about insolvency. The post MakerDAO approves 85% Gemini USD holdings in DAI stablecoins appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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MakerDAO Set To Convert USDC Funds To ETH, Is This A Good Idea?

The crypto community has been on alert since the crash of LUNA, ETH, and USDT. Investors depend on stablecoins to hedge against price volatility in the crypto market. These stablecoins are pegged to USD, meaning each coin is worth the same as 1 USD.

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MakerDAO Reduces Stability Fees to Rekindle Stablecoin Demand

The decentralized finance platform, MakerDAO, intends to rekindle demand for its DAI stablecoin through fee reduction. The platform allows borrowers to use volatile cryptocurrency as collateral for loans of stablecoins (known as dai) pegged to the U.

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MakerDAO’s Embrace of Centralized Stablecoins Offers Risks and Rewards

MakerDAO's ingestion of centralized stablecoins may help maintain a $ peg. But it could also invite more regulatory scrutiny.

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MakerDAO Adds Chainlink, Compound, Loopring as Collateral Options

MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.

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Venus Protocol’s Decentralized Stablecoin, Via, Launches on Binance Smart Chain; Forked From Compound & MakerDAO

On September. 28, Binance announced the launch of Venus Protocol, an algorithmic money market platform that allows borrowing of over-collateralized loans, lending, and generation of new synthetic stablecoins, VAI.

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4 Million Dai Stablecoins Minted with wBTC; DeFi Gains A Boost from Bitcoin’s Liquidity

MakerDao, Ethereum's largest DeFi, has facilitated the minting of over 4 million Dai stablecoins based on its newly added synthetic Bitcoin, wBTC. This transaction was initiated by Nexo, a crypto lending platform, on May 20.

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Tron’s New DeFi Initiative JUST

TRON has just launched a new DeFi platform known simply as JUST, which operates similarly to the MakerDAO in that stablecoins are issued when a user locks up native tokens in the smart contract—in this case, TRX coins.

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MakerDAO founder: Govts need not be ultimate judge on regulating stablecoins

The cryptocurrency industry has immensely grown in terms of popularity over the years, along with which the regulations surrounding the same have also witnessed a change. Regulators from all around thThe post MakerDAO founder: Govts need not be ultimate judge on regulating stablecoins appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Libra, digital yuan, centralized stablecoins are just banking services: MakerDAO's Christensen

MakerDAO's latest upgrade is deemed paramount to the ecosystem's relevance as it seeks to enhance the Dai token's real-world use cases. Maker's Rune Christensen recently featured in a Blockcrunch inteThe post Libra, digital yuan, centralized stablecoins are just banking services: MakerDAO's Christensen appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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DAI addresses continue to surge; record 27% monthly growth since May

The importance of stablecoins such as Tether has gradually risen in the industry over the past few years, with these fiat-backed digital assets currrently occupying a substantial part of the total market cap.

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Binance upgrades first stablecoin thanks to Quantstamp audit

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceQuantstamp, a Y Combinator-backed blockchain security company, recently completed the audit of cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s GBP-backed stablecoin, Binance GBP (BGBP).

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Two Percent Of All Ether Now Locked In Maker Contracts

The amount of Ether (ETH) stored in Maker contracts has reached unprecedented levels, with nearly 2% of the entire ETH supply now locked into the ecosystem. Rising demand for DAI stablecoins has seen MakerDAO’s collateral quintuple in the past seven months.

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Ethereum Crash Drives Growth of MakerDAO and DAI

MakerDAO, a crypto collateral platform, has revealed that its blockchain network and stablecoin have directly benefited from Ethereum’s extended price crash, which has been ongoing for the past several months and shows little sign of letting up.

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How MakerDAO’s Decentralized DAI Stablecoin Token Looks to Oust the Controversial Tether (USDT)

The previous year has been marked by a lot of things, including high-profile crypto exchange hacks, two market crashes, a year-long bear market, and of course — stablecoins. 2018 has been quite an eventful year for fiat pegged coins, which started emerging due to high volatility of regular cryptocurrencies. The most popular stablecoin, Tether (USTD) […]

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MakerDAO Founder Says Stablecoins Are “The True Key to Unlocking the Great Potential of Blockchain”

The price of digital assets can swing wildly in either direction – no questions about it. However, this year has mostly seen a bear market with the majority of coins down by more than 70 percent from their peak value.

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Bitfinex Gives Tether Competition, Adds Four of Market’s Top Stablecoins

Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).

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Stablecoin overview: A condensed version

MakerDAO explains the meaning and mechanisms behind stablecoins on the CoinMarketCap blog.

The post Stablecoin overview: A condensed version appeared first on CoinMarketCap.

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Crypto Exchange Cobinhood Announced Support for Four New Stablecoins

Cryptocurrency exchange Cobinhood recently announced that it had added four new stablecoins to its platform. These coins include Gemini Dollar (GUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX), TrueUSD (TUSD) and MakerDao (DAI).

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MakerDAO Introduces New Collateral Interface

MakerDAO has introduced a new CDP Portal, which serves as a simplified and streamlined interface that allows users to generate their own collateralized Dai stablecoins. The news was announced in a recent Medium post that details the portal’s many features.

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With New Exchange Listings and Demand, New Stablecoins See Pegs Broken

Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.

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As Tether’s Peg Slips, Bitcoin Price Is Distorted Across Market

Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.

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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Begins Trading

Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.

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Andressen Horowitz Invests $15 Million into Stablecoin Company MakerDAO

As established venture capital funds look with intent at the lucrative cryptocurrency space, stablecoin startups are seemingly catching their attention as the investment avenue of choice after crypto-exchanges and wallets services.

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Investment Firm a16z crypto Purchases $15 Million In MKR Tokens

MakerDAO ain’t like all the other stablecoins out there, apparently.

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Crypto Fund a16z Buys Up $15 Million Worth of MakerDAO’s MKR Stablecoins

Andreessen Horowitz’s specialized cryptocurrency and blockchain fund a16z crypto has purchased six percent of MakerDAO’s total MKR token supply for $15 million, the company announced in a September 24 press release.

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Wyre Adds MakerDAO Stablecoin Pairing for Global Money Transfers

Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U.

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What Is MakerDAO? An Interview with Rune Christensen

MakerDAO is a stability platform comprised of a stablecoin, a governance coin, and a decentralized governance model. Stablecoins are a potential solution to the volatility of cryptocurrencies, allowing for wider adoption.

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