{"id":63640,"date":"2022-06-29T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63640"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:08:01","slug":"makerdao-to-allocate-500-million-dai-from-reserves-into-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/makerdao-to-allocate-500-million-dai-from-reserves-into-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"MakerDAO to allocate 500 million DAI from reserves into bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MakerDAO DeFi platform community has begun voting on investing unallocated 500 million DAI in &#8220;low-risk bonds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Maker Governance votes to determine how to allocate 500 million DAI between different investment strategies.<\/p>\n<p>This allocation poll is a result of the passage of MIP65: Monetalis Clydesdale: Liquid Bond Strategy &#038; Execution.<\/p>\n<p>A recap on how it would work.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\uddf5 <\/p>\n<p>1\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SdF9QT2OM6\">pic.twitter.com\/SdF9QT2OM6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maker (@MakerDAO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MakerDAO\/status\/1541492047588298753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The initiative<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.makerdao.com\/t\/signal-request-asset-allocation-of-mip65-clydesdale\/15922\/2#balance-sheet-context-2\"> aimed<\/a> at mitigating the bear market effects. At the time of writing, MakerDAO&#8217;s balance sheet held $4 billion in DAI. Additionally, for these purposes, up to $500 million could be drawn from the DAI\/USDC pool.<\/p>\n<p>Among the strategies under consideration are a 100% allocation to U.S. Treasuries, or an 80:20 split between government and investment-grade corporate bonds.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed options are characterised by low volatility, with capital risk significantly below 4%.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The investments [\u2026] do not pose significant risk to either the DAI peg or MakerDAO&#8217;s solvency<\/em>, according to the proposal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of writing, 79.6% of votes were for the second option, 7% for the first, and 13.5% of MKR holders opposed deploying treasury funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-681.png\" alt=\"MakerDAO to allocate reserve 500 million DAI into bonds\" class=\"wp-image-177392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-681.png 922w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-681-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-681-768x225.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption>Data:<a href=\"https:\/\/vote.makerdao.com\/polling\/QmXedMr8\"> MakerDAO<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Voting closes on June 30 at 16:00 (UTC).<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the protocol would move beyond the crypto market and begin earning income from traditional financial investments through the stablecoin it issues.<\/p>\n<p>The invested funds will be held in a trust established by Monetalis, a private German group specialising in financial planning.<\/p>\n<p>In June, MakerDAO<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/makerdao-priostanovila-svyazannye-s-lendingovoj-platformoj-aave-operatsii\/?doing_wp_cron=1656486999.2110528945922851562500\"> paused<\/a> Aave-related lending operations.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MakerDAO DeFi platform community has begun voting on investing unallocated 500 million DAI in &#8220;low-risk bonds&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63641,"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":[1099,1100],"class_list":["post-63640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dai","tag-makerdao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63642,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63640\/revisions\/63642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}