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.

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.