MakerDAO, which builds the platform that issues the DAI stablecoin, saw a marked decline in 2022 revenue, as the DeFi protocol launched a significant pivot from crypto-native lending to the real-world asset market, according to a financial report issued by Steakhouse Financial. Total revenue decreased 42% to 65 million DAI ($65 million) in 2022 from 112 million DAI in 2021, the report said. This led to an 80% drop in the protocol’s net operating earnings to 19 million DAI last year from 90 million DAI in 2021. Operating expenses rose to 46 million DAI in 2022, more than double the figure reported the previous year.

According to a new social post on Feb. 1, Maker decentralized autonomous organization, or MakerDAO, has approved the creation of a new fund dedicated to expenses related to legal defense. 

In a new proposal, the Open Market Committee of leading decentralized finance platform (DeFi) MakerDAO has sought community approval to increase the maximum debt ceiling on its Compound DAI Direct Deposit Module (Compound V2 D3M) by 300% and to set the Target Available Debt on the same vault to 5 million DAI. 

In the hopes of generating yield while offering users what its best known for, MakerDAO, the issuer of the Ethereum-based stablecoin, DAI, has approved a proposal to deploy $100 million of Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) in a Yearn Finance yield-generating account called a “vault.”

After its proposal in November to deploy $100 USD Coin [USDC] into the Yearn Finance [YFI] DeFi protocol, MakerDAO [MKR] finally approved it. Details from the poll showed that 71.56% of the MKR community voted in favor of the proposition, while 28.44% preferred to say no to the “Yearn to earn Yield” proposal.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) giant MakerDAO’s community approved Monday a proposal to deploy up to $100 million USD Coin (USDC) from its reserve on DeFi protocol Yearn Finance, where the deposited stablecoin will earn a yield.

Stablecoin issuer Paxos proposed paying a steady fee to decentralized finance giant MakerDAO for holding up to $1.5 billion of Pax USD (USDP) stablecoin among its reserves.

Decentralized finance giant MakerDAO’s community voted for keeping Gemini USD (GUSD) stablecoin as part of the protocol’s reserve system for its DAI stablecoin in a dramatic vote that flipped at the finish line.

Decentralized finance giant MakerDAO's community was heavily favoring keeping Gemini’s GUSD stablecoin as part of Maker’s reserve in an ongoing vote that is testing confidence in Gemini, the Winklevoss-founded exchange that has been swept up in recent crypto contagion.

MakerDAO has begun voting on a pair of governance polls designed to limit exposure of the DAI stablecoin to Gemini as a result of the current liquidity crisis facing the exchange's lending platform called Earn.