{"id":46432,"date":"2021-07-20T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46432"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:21:52","slug":"makerdao-founder-announces-full-decentralisation-of-the-defi-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/makerdao-founder-announces-full-decentralisation-of-the-defi-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"MakerDAO founder announces full decentralisation of the DeFi platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen announced that the DeFi platform &#8220;has undergone a full lifecycle&#8221; and is now fully decentralised.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A final Maker Foundation message from CEO Rune Christensen (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuneKek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RuneKek<\/a>):<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qG27L8wQzf\">https:\/\/t.co\/qG27L8wQzf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maker (@MakerDAO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MakerDAO\/status\/1417515551623024641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;With a few key elements approved to effectively organise all spheres of activity within a decentralised autonomous organisation and the global community now responsible for every aspect of the Maker protocol, the DAO is now fully self-sustaining,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christensen emphasised that the Maker Foundation has fulfilled its obligations to develop the project. In the coming months, the organisation will be wound up.<\/p>\n<p>The creator of MakerDAO reminded that six years ago he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ethereum\/comments\/30f98i\/introducing_edollar_the_ultimate_stablecoin_built\/\">introduced on Reddit<\/a> the first version of Dai, which at the time was called eDollar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There are now over 5 billion Dai in circulation and more than $8 billion of assets locked in the Maker protocol&#8217;s smart contracts,&#8221; Christensen noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daistats-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c MakerDAO \u043e\u0431\u044a\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u0446\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 DeFi-\u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u044b\" class=\"wp-image-143085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daistats-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daistats-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daistats-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daistats.png 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The number of Dai in circulation, collateral, TVL and other Dai parameters. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/daistats.com\/#\/\">daistats<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maker sits in fifth place on DeFi Pulse&#8217;s ranking, behind Aave, InstaDApp, Compound, and Curve in terms of total value locked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-21.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043e\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c MakerDAO \u043e\u0431\u044a\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u0446\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 DeFi-\u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u044b\" class=\"wp-image-143086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-21.png 876w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-21-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeFi-Pulse-21-768x779.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/defipulse.com\/\">DeFi Pulse<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a reminder, at the start of the year the amount of Dai blocked in MakerDAO exceeded <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/value-of-makerdaos-locked-assets-tops-3-billion\">$3 billion<\/a>. As of writing, the figure stands at $5.52 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/an-investors-guide-to-popular-indicators-for-assessing-defi-projects\">published<\/a> a review of popular indicators for evaluating DeFi projects.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen announced that the DeFi platform &#8220;has undergone a full lifecycle&#8221; and is now fully decentralised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1093,1100],"class_list":["post-46432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-makerdao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46434,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46432\/revisions\/46434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}