In line with a discussion board put up from Maker DAO, issuer of the U.S. dollar-pegged DAI stablecoin, on Mar. 11, the agency requested an “pressing government proposal to mitigate dangers to the protocol.” Maker stated that it possessed a number of collaterals “uncovered to USDC tail danger” in gentle of the extraordinary de-pegging of the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin that started on Mar. 10. Maker DAO at present possesses greater than 3.1 billion USDC in collateral backing its DAI stablecoin.
Firstly, Maker proposes lowering the debt ceiling of UNIV2USDCETH-A, UNIV2DAIUSDC-A, GUNIV3DAIUSDC1-A, and GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A liquidity supplier collaterals to 0 DAI. Subsequent, Maker needs to cut back each day minting limits of its USDC peg stability module from 950 million DAI to 250 million DAI and enhance the payment from 0% to 1% to forestall “extreme dumping of USDC.” One other stablecoin module, GUSD, can even see its each day minting restrict lowered from 50 million DAI to 10 million DAI if the proposal passes.
Maker additionally needs to eradicate publicity to decentralized finance protocols Curve and Aave of their entirety. In line with Maker, Curve “makes use of a set $1 value for USDC,” which “presents a danger of dangerous debt accrual and doubtlessly financial institution runs with cascading market insolvency if the market value of USDC falls considerably beneath the present collateral issue.” Whereas Aave would not possess such dangers, Maker however acknowledged that its “total risk-reward of depositing funds into the D3M will not be favorable below present situations.”
Lastly, Maker proposes to extend the protocol’s debt ceiling to the USDP stablecoin issued by Paxos from 450 million DAI to 1 billion. The agency wrote:
“Paxos has comparatively stronger reserve belongings versus different obtainable centralized stablecoins, consisting primarily of U.S. treasury payments, reverse repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. treasury bonds. They face comparatively decrease potential for impairment versus different obtainable stablecoins”
On Mar. 10, USDC depegged from the U.S. greenback after its issuer, Circle, disclosed it had $3.3 billion price of funds collateralizing the stablecoin caught on now-defunct Silicon Valley Financial institution. On the time of publication, USDC is at present buying and selling at $0.9025. In gentle of the information, the DAI stablecoin has additionally degged to $0.9235.
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