MakerDAO moves ahead with $1.6 billion in Coinbase custody

The MakerDAO community ratified proposals to custody $1.6 billion USDC with Coinbase and lend the exchange $500 million additional USDC. The post MakerDAO moves ahead with $1.6 billion in Coinbase custody appeared first on The Block.

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Maker DAO's MKR token was among the best performers in the last four weeks. Its bulls have dominated during this time but multiple factors currently suggest that they might be about to take a break.

MakerDAO, one of the largest decentralized protocols, is in the middle of a makeover. Rifts have emerged between investors and founders as they offer competing plans for making the protocol more decentralized and try to drive growth.

Maker [MKR] recently registered a promising uptick as its value increased by 7% in the last week. At press time, MKR was trading at $1,004 with a market capitalization of $959,766,006.

MakerDAO was seen witnessing some dominance in the DeFI market as of 15 October. And one of the reasons for this development could be the constant introduction of new proposals to improve the protocol on the whole.

Tron rose to a one-month high in today's session, hitting a key resistance point in the process. The surge in price comes despite cryptocurrency markets trading mostly lower on Monday. Another exception to this decline was maker, which remained close to an eight-week high.

MakerDAO, the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the “original,” decentralized stablecoin, announced “the strategic investment of $500M USD (converted from $500M DAI) into a combination of US Short Treasuries and Investment Grade Corporate Bonds.

MakerDAO, the governing body of the Maker protocol, recently revealed that a community-wide vote that had been going on for months had concluded. The goal of the vote was to determine how best to allocate the Maker treasury funds for the best investment.

MakerDAO has invested $500 million of its reserves in traditional assets to diversify its balance sheet and strengthen the DAI stablecoin backing.  Investing In Traditional Assets Decentralized autonomous organization, MakerDAO has initiated $500 million from its reserves to be invested in traditional assets like the U.S. Treasuries and bonds.

MakerDAO, the team behind the DAI stablecoin, has taken its first step in allocating $500 million worth of funds to the U.S. Treasury and corporate bonds, thereby diversifying its balance sheet. The allocated funds were stored in the custody of two investment companies.

MakerDAO has initiated an investment, where $500 million of the funds that are collateralizing the Dai (DAI/USD) stablecoin will be relocated to US Treasuries and corporate bonds, with the main goal of providing the protocol with an additional yield at low risk.