Institutional prime dealer platform for crypto property Coinbase Prime announced introduced on Oct. 24 that it had partnered with MakerDAO — the most important single holder of USDC — to turn out to be the custodian of the $1.6 billion stablecoin.
The MakerDAO neighborhood voted to approve this custodian, which can permit their neighborhood to earn a 1.5% reward on their USDC whereas holding funds with a number one institutional custodian.
This system outlined the next income plan for the USDC, which was boarded by @MakerDAO:
• 1% APY on the primary 100 million USDC.
• 0.1% extra APY per 100 million USDC thereafter.
• Rewards could not exceed 1.5% APY.
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— Maker (@MakerDAO) October 24, 2022
In accordance with Coinbase Prime, this transfer is not going to solely carry tangible advantages to the MakerDAO neighborhood, however may even exemplify the platform's efforts to develop the stablecoin ecosystem. Coinbase expressed confidence that stablecoins will play a key position in creating an open, extra environment friendly, and equitable monetary system that bridges the hole between the crypto and fiat worlds.
Jennifer Senhaji, accountable for progress and enterprise growth at MakerDAO mentioned:
"The extra month-to-month income generated by way of this deal permits Maker to additional advance its overarching mission of making a worldwide, trusted monetary future constructed on decentralized rails."
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Coinbase has lengthy supported MakerDAO because it offered liquidity to the protocol and helped it get DAI initially listed.
On Oct. 14, Cointelegraph reported that MakerDAO's income plummeted within the third quarter of 2022, pushed by a slowdown in mortgage demand and few liquidations, whereas spending remained buoyant. Twitter account proprietor Johnny_TVL, a Messari analyst and co-author of "The State of Maker Q3 2022," shared in a sequence of tweets that MakerDAO noticed income drop simply over $4 million within the third quarter, a decline of 86% in comparison with the earlier quarter.
@MakerDAO The third quarter was painful for the decentralized lender.
Notable:
- Gross sales numbers fell by 86%, the collateralization ratio to 1.1
- G-UNI dominates, will this enhance liquidity and on-chain quantity for DAI?
- Dependence of wBTC on whales/establishments
- RWA
- Endgame
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— Johnny_TVL (@john_tv_locke) October 13, 2022
