Maker, a leading platform in decentralized finance, has recently undergone a rebranding and is now known as Sky. Alongside this change, their widely-used stablecoin, previously known as DAI, has been upgraded and rebranded as USDS. Users can upgrade from DAI or convert from USDC to NetStable at a 1:1 ratio.
MakerDAO, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has announced the launch of new versions of its native tokens, DAI and MKR, as part of its ongoing endgame plan. The new tokens, named NewStable (NST) and NewGovToken (NGT), were introduced to enhance governance and functionality within the MakerDAO ecosystem. According to the
A crypto whale has fallen victim to a phishing attack, losing a substantial 55.47 million DAI tokens ($55M) after negligently signing a fraudulent transaction. According to the on-chain data, the funds were stored in the vault of Maker, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Ethereum. However, the ownership of
In H1 2024, the stablecoin sector witnessed 24.3% growth in market cap according to CMC data. It also dominated the DeFi sector and is stated to be a fast emerging digital asset. Popular stablecoins such as USDT and USDC showed substantial growth in users apart from increases in market cap.
In a move set to shake up the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, the MakerDAO community is poised to vote on a groundbreaking proposal that could significantly impact interest rates across the sector. The proposal seeks to raise the Dai Savings Rate (DSR) from its current 1% to an enticing 3.33%,
MakerDAO has developed a contingency strategy to shield its native stablecoin DAI from additional exposure to potentially unstable stablecoins. Amidst the volatility that has plagued the crypto market over the last twenty-four hours. Especially with USDC depegging from its $1 value. And mounting fears over the degree to which it
Lido, the liquidity staking protocol for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains has published a new proposal for Treasury choices. Lido holds more than $8 billion in staking and the number of Ethereum (ETH) tokens is valued at around $7.9 billion. The number of stakers on the network is approximately 275 K. The
The wormhole bridge exploiters are back in action. While tracking down the so-called wallet address of the hacker, a brief amount of Ethereum was transferred on 23rd Jan of 2022. Two interesting transactions on the list, one is presumably between exploiter and exploiter 2, which sums around 1,889 ETH with
Paxos, a stablecoin issuer, considered paying MakerDAO a recurring charge for keeping up to $1.5 billion in Pax USD (USDP) stablecoin reserves. As per the proposal, to encourage the use of USDP within the Maker ecosystem and increase the USDP PSM Debt Ceiling to 1.5B USDP, Paxos will send MakerDAO
Celsius Network paid off $113,105,000 on its Aave and Compound loans. Celsius freed up more than $450 million in collateral. Since last week’s wave of bitcoin loan repayments, the troubled cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network which has suspended customer withdrawals due to liquidity issues has paid off $113 million on its
