MakerDAO community votes against CoinShares’ $500M investment proposal
Decentralized lending protocol MakerDAO has voted in opposition to crypto funding agency CoinShares’ proposal to take a position between $100 million and $500 million value of the group’s funds right into a portfolio of company debt securities and government-backed bonds for yield as an funding technique.
Finally, 72.43% of the votes went in opposition to the proposal. Had the group voted in favor, CoinShares would have offered “a variable APY above the SOFR rate of interest (3.01% as of October 26, 2022) in the neighborhood’s most popular foreign money (DAI, USDC, USD…) to MakerDAO, which might have been withdrawable on-chain.
On MakerDAO’s web page for the vot, a couple of members defined why they voted in opposition to the proposal. Feedblack Loops LLC shared:
“Since governance has voted on extra USDC then obtainable, going to only say no to proposals of this sort shifting ahead till the home will get so as. Coinshares had many incongruencies up entrance however did an honest job of articulating complicated parts of their proposal. Optimistic for a revision / completely different method.”
One other person, Llama — who additionally voted in opposition to the proposal — mentioned: “We consider this proposal to be extraordinarily past protocol threat tolerance.”
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In October, the MakerDAO group authorized the custodianship of $1.6 billion value of the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) with Coinbase Prime, an institutional prime brokerage platform for crypto property. The custodianship was anticipated to permit the MakerDAO group to earn a 1.5% reward on th USDC.
On Oct. 14, Cointelegraph reported that MakerDAO’s income plummeted within the third quarter of 2022, attributable to a fall in mortgage demand and few liquidations, whereas bills remained excessive.
