THELOGICALINDIAN - The Huntingdon Valley Bank will now be able to borrow up to 100 actor in DAI from MakerDAO
MakerDAO will now be able to accommodation up to $100 actor annual of DAI to Huntingdon Valley Coffer back it posts accessory to an off-chain account. It’s the aboriginal time a U.S. coffer has affiliated to the DeFi ecosystem.
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The arch DeFi protocol’s DAO passed a vote today to add the Huntingdon Valley Coffer to its Real-World Asset Maker Vaults, acceptation that MakerDAO will be able to accommodate up to $100 actor in DAI to the Pennsylvania-based coffer whenever it deposits accessory into a specific off-chain account. An 87.27% majority voted in favor of the proposal.
MakerDAO is an Ethereum-based DeFi agreement that allows users to excellent the DAI stablecoin back they drop collateral. To date, the accessory users can drop has mostly appear in the anatomy of above agenda currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The accustomed angle brings a adapted U.S. coffer into the DeFi ecosystem for the aboriginal time.
Other real-world assets accept already been added to MakerDAO’s vaults with assorted debt ceilings. The agreement can accommodation up to $18 actor in DAI for tokenized absolute acreage acquaint as collateral, $14 actor to bartering absolute acreage developers, $5 actor to access U.S. Revenue Based Financing assets, about $2 actor to tokenized bales invoices, and $1.8 actor to Short Term Trade Receivables. In total, with the new angle now passed, MakerDAO can accommodation $141 actor in DAI for collateralized real-world assets.
The Huntingdon Valley Coffer affiliation will be the protocol’s better to date. The DAO is additionally attractive into potentially absolution the French bunch advance coffer Société Générale borrow $30 actor in DAI. Additionally, it affairs to invest $500 actor in DAI in U.S. Treasury bills and accumulated bonds.
While the MakerDAO algorithm liquidates users automatically if their accessory avalanche beneath a assertive threshold, the Huntingdon Valley Bank Vault can alone be terminated through a babyminding vote as its assets are collateralized off-chain rather than on Ethereum.
The accretion complication of MakerDAO’s accessory arrangement afresh prompted a hotly contested angle for the DAO to accredit an advising board that could admonish MKR holders on approaching proposals. The angle was rejected on Jun. 27, with 60.17% of votes activity adjoin the angle and alone 38.28% voting in favor.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
