Huntingdon Valley Bank to Access Up to $100M of DeFi Funding via MakerDAO

MakerDAO, the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the “original,” decentralized stablecoin, announced that Huntingdon Valley Bank (HVB) has been “approved to utilize a $100M participation facility, funded by a Maker Vault.

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MakerDAO, a smart contract protocol built on the Ethereum network, announced on Tuesday that it is lending out 100 million DAI to the United States-based commercial bank, Huntingdon Valley Bank.  Today is a defining moment to envision the potential of connecting decentralized finance and real-world finance.

Uniswap's UNI and MakerDAO's MKR are the two leading altcoins that have seen a significant spike in whale transactions above $100,000 on their respective networks since the beginning of this month, data from Santiment revealed.

MakerDAO (decentralized autonomous organization) founder Rune Christensen has called for the community members to consider depegging Maker (MKR)'s stablecoin DAI from USD, and perhaps (slowly) getting into ethereum (ETH) – which Vitalik Buterin argued would be a “terrible idea.”

The co-founder of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization has expressed that he plans to sell $3.5 billion worth of USDC for ETH.  DAI Could Depeg MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen's decision to sell such a vast amount of USDC for ETH could result in another stablecoin catastrophe.

The founder of MakerDAO, Rune Christensen, said on the project's official Discord channel that they are seriously considering moving away from using Circle's stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) following the immediate closure of USDC addresses sanctioned by US authorities for interacting with Tornado Cash.

In a big development, Rune Chirstensen, founder of MakerDAO has urged all the members to “seriously consider” preparing the depeg of the DAI stablecoin from the U.S. Dollar. The comments came on the MakerDAO discord channel on Thursday, August 11, after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash earlier this week.

MakerDAO is set to discuss whether it needs to remove the USDC backing for DAI which could depeg the stablecoin from the US dollar. The post MakerDAO founder says it's ‘almost inevitable' DAI will abandon USD peg appeared first on The Block.

Following Circle's freeze of blacklisted Tornado Cash addresses, MakerDAO is re-assessing the risks associated with its USDC collateral. The post MakerDAO plans against sanctions from USDC exposure appeared first on CryptoSlate.

On 18 July, MakerDAO's native token, MKR, rode the ongoing bull wave to mark its spot at a high of $1,043. However, this was followed by a retracement that sent the price of the token chasing new lows.

Makerdao, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that issues the stablecoin DAI, approved a governance vote that provides “collateral integration from a U.S.-based bank.” The Makerdao governance vote passed by a majority vote of more than 87%, and it allows the U.S. financial institution Huntingdon Valley Bank the means to leverage a stablecoin vault.