According to DefiLlama data, MakerDAO's lending protocol Spark Protocol TVL has surpassed $500 million, reaching $504 million.

According to DefiLlama data, on October 18th, the lending protocol Spark Protocol, owned by MakerDAO, surpassed $500 million in TVL, reaching $504 million. Previously reported on August 7th that MakerDAO had passed and implemented proposals to increase the debt ceiling of Spark Protocol.

According to a report released by 21Shares, since early August when the Dai Savings Rate (DSR) was increased to 8% APY, DAI in the DSR has grown by $1.38 billion, increasing from $337 million to $1.66 billion. At the same time, MakerDAO fundamentals continue to improve, with MKR rising 32.70% in the past month.

Maker's DeFi "subDAO" has passed a proposal to activate the DAI lending market on the Gnosis chain. Users can now access Spark Lend on both the Gnosis chain and Ethereum, which is a fork of Aave with similar functionality. As demand grows, the Gnosis treasury management platform Karpatkey will provide liquidity for the DAI market until Maker operates it on its own.

According to Makerburn data, MakerDAO has once again increased its RWA assets by $191 million through Monetalis Clydesdale and BlockTower Andromeda over the past two days. Among them, Monetalis Clydesdale increased RWA assets by $97 million, and BlockTower Andromeda increased RWA assets by $94 million. In addition, the current protocol's total RWA assets exceed $2.9 billion.

MakerDAO has initiated a new executive proposal suggesting changes to stability fees and adjustments to the maximum debt ceiling.The stability fee adjustments include: increasing the ETH-A stability fee from 3.58% to 3.70%; increasing the ETH-B stability fee from 4.08% to 4.20%; and increasing the ETH-C stability fee from 3.33% to 3.45%.

MakerDAO has initiated a new execution proposal, including stable fee changes: ETH-A stable fee increased from 3.58% to 3.70%; ETH-B stable fee increased from 4.08% to 4.20%; ETH-C stable fee increased from 3.33% to 3.45%. The maximum debt limit will increase from 0 DAI to 120 million DAI; the target available debt will increase from 0 DAI to 50 million DAI; the cooldown time for limit increases will be set to 24 hours. Spark Protocol D3M (DIRECT-SPARK-DAI) maximum debt limit will increase from 200 million DAI to 400 million DAI; the cooldown time for Spark Protocol D3M limit increases will be extended from 8 hours to 12 hours. The debt limit for Fortunafi Treasury will be reduced from 15 million DAI to 0 DAI, and other content.

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.