On September 13th, at Token 2049, Rune Christensen, co-founder of MakerDAO, discussed the impact of US regulation. MakerDAO has implemented a governance decision to ban US IP addresses from accessing its UI product. He also stated that MakerDAO is committed to eliminating any dependence on development companies to ensure the sustainability of the protocol over time.

MakerDAO community has proposed allocating up to $100 million in funding for the development and testing of tokenized US Treasury bills (T-Bill) products, including T-Bills collateralized with Flux fDAI and frictionless products such as Maple Cash USDC, as well as long-term products such as Backed Finance's bIB01 and bIBTA.

On September 8th, according to Makerburn data, MakerDAO added $50 million in RWA assets through BlockTower Andromeda, mainly invested in short-term US government bonds with an annualized interest rate of 4.5%. In addition, the current protocol's total RWA assets have reached $2.513 billion.

Rune Christensen, the founder of MakerDAO, stated in an interview that "NewChain has not yet chosen to adopt the Solana or Cosmos codebase, only conducting investigations; the Maker Dao structure is divided into SubDAO, which requires effective operation in the direction of multiple tokens. Regarding the second phase SubDAO of Endgame, there will be various business models for SubDAOs in various fields such as Web3 cultural communities and RWA. Our goal is to make the DAO itself a sustainable ecosystem."

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, and Rune Christensen, co-founder of MakerDAO, warned their communities on the X (formerly Twitter) platform to stop attacking Ethereum and to avoid any behavior that would cause division within their own communities.

On September 2nd, according to SlowMist monitoring, the hacker who made tens of millions of dollars by attacking the MEV robot in April transferred 7,317,799 DAI to MakerDAO.

On September 1st, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen published an article titled "Exploring the NewChain-based Solana Codebase Fork." Rune stated that he will be rebuilding the entire Maker protocol in the final stage of Endgame and releasing it on a new, independent chain currently codenamed NewChain. Rune further stated that the final stage of Endgame is a significant long-term project that may take at least three years. The most important reason for using New Chain is that it will allow the ecosystem to quickly and seamlessly recover from the most severe governance attacks or technical failures.

The Maker (MKR) governance token of DeFi lender MakerDAO saw a 10% increase in value on Thursday, despite the broader cryptocurrency market experiencing a 3.5% decline. MakerDAO's profitability has improved due to the platform's recent overhaul, which includes investing stablecoin reserves in real-world assets and lending to banks for higher yields. The platform's profits are being used to benefit MKR holders through a token buyback scheme. The Maker-adjacent lending platform Spark has also experienced growth, nearing an all-time high of $700 million in total value locked.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, it was reported by Jinse Finance that Rune Kek, the founder of MakerDAO, exchanged 215,000 DAI for 211.61 MKR at an average price of $1,016 7 hours ago. The total purchase amount in the past 4 days was 409.06 MKR at an average price of $1,015.

According to Makerburn data, on August 28th, MakerDAO recently made a profit of over $7.45 million by selling $125 million RWA asset Monetalis Clydesdale. The current treasury balance is $55.8 million, and the part exceeding $50 million ($5.8 million) will be used to buy back MKR and add it to Uniswap V2 with DAI. MakerDAO started the buyback two days ago. 

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, a whale address starting with 0x562 sold 2720 WETH in the past two days in exchange for 4.49 million DAI. Then the whale deposited the 4.49 million DAI into MakerDAO, which currently offers a 5% interest rate.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, RuneKek, the founder of MakerDAO, exchanged 200,000 DAI for 197.5 MKR at an average price of $1,013 about 21 and 12 hours ago. It is worth noting that there are usually large fluctuations after each purchase by the founder.

August 24th, according to makerburn data, MakerDAO added $50 million of RWA assets through BlockTower Andromeda, mainly investing in short-term US Treasury bonds. Currently, the total RWA assets in MakerDAO are about $2.537 billion, of which Monetalis Clydesdale accounts for $1.139 billion and BlockTower Andromeda accounts for $652 million.

PeckShieldAlert has monitored that Justin Sun redeemed 146.13 million DAI from MakerDAO and exchanged it for 16.86 wstETH. Justin Sun's related address 0xBCb7 redeemed 59.9 million DAI from MakerDAO and exchanged it for 67,000 wstETH.

On August 18th, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen published an article titled "Next-Generation Atlas and Governance AI Tools," pointing out that the adaptive system dataset method is the universal concept upon which the next-generation Atlas is based. The system dataset contains a dataset of all data related to the entire system end-to-end. In the context of Maker, it includes all relevant data related to Maker's governance, protocol, community, and ecosystem, including principles, rules, processes, roles, historical data, precedents, examples, analysis, translation, graphic visual aids, code, smart contract addresses, and tools, among other things. Atlas not only contains all data related to Maker, but also controls the way data is changed and records changes in real-time. Governance AI Tool (GAIT) is key to allowing people to easily participate in Maker governance through the Atlas process. GAIT helps prioritize the time and attention of participants and automates most of the interaction required for governance participation.

On August 18, MakerDAO governance page shows that a series of adjustment proposals, including EDSR and stability fees, have started voting. The main content of the proposal includes: DSR will be reduced according to EDSR, and after this proposal is passed, DSR will be reduced from 8% to 5%; increase stability fees for ETH, wstETH, rETH, and other stablecoins; update parameters for the intelligent burning engine.

On August 17th, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen initiated a proposal for community governance. The proposal aims to formally incorporate the Spark protocol-Aave revenue sharing system into the Maker ecosystem protocol and attempt to fix its flaws to align with expected behavior and expectations.

According to Makerburn.com data, the supply of DAI stablecoin has surged to a 5-month high of 5.35 billion. With the increase in supply, the protocol's annual income has also reached its highest point in two years at $165.4 million, which means that Maker currently earns about $165 million in fees per year.

According to CoinMarketCap data, after MakerDAO raised the DAI deposit interest rate (DSR) to 8%, the market value of DAI has increased by nearly $1 billion in the past 7 days. The market value of DAI increased from $4.45 billion on August 6 to $5.33 billion. In addition, according to the Makerburn dashboard, this incentive immediately affected the amount of DAI in DSR, increasing from 339.4 million on August 6 to 1.27 billion. 

According to official data, the market size of Spark Protocol, a lending protocol under MakerDAO, has approached $650 million. In addition, Spark Protocol has lent out over $209 million in assets, of which the borrowing volume of DAI is $198 million, accounting for 95% of the total borrowing asset scale.