{"id":75117,"date":"2024-04-03T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T09:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=75117"},"modified":"2024-04-03T05:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T09:32:01","slug":"aave-to-counter-makerdaos-dai-expansion-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/aave-to-counter-makerdaos-dai-expansion-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Aave to Counter MakerDAO&#8217;s DAI Expansion risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/biden-revives-30-tax-on-electricity-used-by-crypto-miners-in-budget-proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The proposal<\/a> seeks to reduce risks with minimal user impact, given the small DAI collateral on Aave, and users can switch to USDC or USDT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-1320x743.png 1320w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-750x422.png 750w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve-1140x641.png 1140w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aave to Counter MakerDAO's DAI Expansion risk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lending procedure Aave has introduced a new proposal from the <a href=\"https:\/\/governance.aave.com\/t\/arfc-chaos-labs-aave-risk-management-renewal\/15234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Aave Risk Framework Committee (ARFC)<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to external site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; 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transformation, which, according to co-founder Rune Christensen, will &#8220;orient the platform toward scalable resilience and sustainable user growth.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christensen declared the initiation of the &#8220;launch season&#8221; for the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol in forum posts dated March 12, wherein he delineated a comprehensive five-phase strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first phase, projected to commence in mid-2024, an external marketing firm will be retained to rebrand the operation as a more user-friendly and pleasurable concept.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endgame's ultimate objective is to increase the market capitalization of the protocol's decentralized stablecoin, DAI, from its current&nbsp;<strong>$4.5 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;to &#8220;100 billion and beyond,&#8221; a level comparable to that of competitor Tether's USDT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each Maker MKR will be renominated by MakerDAO.\u00a0Twenty-four thousand NewGovTokens. In addition, non-U.S. residents who possess NewStable tokens can annually mine 600 million NewGovTokens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to DefiLlama, <span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to external site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#000000; stroke:#000000; display:inline-block;\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><use href=\"#wpil-svg-outbound-7-icon-path\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a>Eigenlayer surpassed lending titan Aave on March 6 to become the second-largest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with a total value locked (TVL) of $11.5 billion. Eigenlayer is now second only to Ethereum liquid staking protocol Lido.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lido has fewer than 430 daily active users, whereas Aave has more than 5,700, according to data from Token Terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal seeks to reduce risks with minimal user impact, given the small DAI collateral on Aave, and users can switch to USDC or USDT. Lending procedure Aave has introduced a new proposal from the Aave Risk Framework Committee (ARFC) to modify the Dai stablecoin&#8217;s risk parameters.\u00a0 The proposal was presented by the Aave Chan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":75126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7115,19031,5643,1661],"class_list":["post-75117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defi-news","tag-aave-2","tag-decentralization-2","tag-defi-2","tag-makerdao"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Aavve.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}