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MakerDAO Case Study: DAI vs USDS
...with majors (DAI/BTC, DAI/ETH), Curve including it in the 3pool with USDC/USDT— all without Maker having...Because people wanted to hold $DAI beyond just the yield subsidized by Maker....So, let’s look at the evidence: where’s $DAI and $USDS sitting?...* Pay for integrations that $DAI got for free....USDS is freezable, whereas $DAI is not.
2 Min
DeFi
Feb 2025
USD.AI: Financing the Future of AI Infra
Market Positioning USDai is most comparable to DAI and USDe....DAI was initially backed solely by ETH, before transitioning to USDC backing and eventually RWA backing...USDai, DAI, and USDe have various tradeoffs concerning yield and liquidity.
14 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
The Path to DeFi's ETF Moment: The Rise of Morpho, Curators, and Mullets
For example, today – the largest vault on Morpho is the Spark DAI Vault (Curated by SparkDAO – an extension...This enables them to set more efficient, tailored rates on their DAI allocations, while directing liquidity...into highly specific markets like sUSDe/DAI where they allocated 300M DAI in April of last year. ...
26 Min
DeFi
Apr 2025
Zenrock: Paving the Path in dMPC
The Multichain 3 hack on July 6, 2023 led to $126 million of DAI, LINK, USDC, WBTC, and wETH....The Orbit Bridge hack on December 31, 2023 cost $82 million in ETH, USDT, USDC, WBTC, and DAI due to...
12 Min
Cross-Chain
Feb 2025
Liquity v2: Evolving Onchain Leverage
MakerDAO Maker’s SAI/DAI was DeFi’s first decentralized stablecoin....Governance-facilitated opportunities in the DSR and D3M, along with subDAO farming post rebrand, dominate the DAI...The SKY rebrand has gone poorly and there are few remaining growth catalysts for DAI....Last cycle, Abracadabra’s MIM quickly reached over 4B outstanding supply while DAI eclipsed 10B.
20 Min
Debt-Backed (CDP) Stablecoins
Nov 2024
The Future of Order-Book Liquidity (Part II - deUSD)
Additionally, if Maker was to implement a hard ceiling on the amount of DAI that can be staked into the...
12 Min
Orderbook
May 2025
Plasma: Stablecoin Infrastructure & The Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Soon, algorithmic & CDP-backed stablecoins (UST, DAI) would emerge, trying to achieve price stability...Even as other stablecoins like USDC and DAI have grown, none have matched the scale, reach, or liquidity...
28 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Circles: A Social Currency Built on Trust
There are backers who accept CRC in exchange for stablecoins (DAI, USDC, EURe).
4 Min
DeFi
Jun 2025
April Showers… May Flowers? - Macro & Markets May 2025
Table: Stablecoin Market Caps Continue Expanding Other stablecoins, including BUSD, DAI, and TUSD, posted...
25 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
...predicate that says, “Only lend to the top four lending protocols, and I’m fine swapping for USDT, DAI...
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
A New Framework For Understanding Moats In Crypto Markets
...three specific models: RWA-backed stables (i.e., USDT, USDC) Synthetic dollars (i.e, USDe) CDPs (i.e., DAI...While DAI often gets indiscriminately labeled as a direct competitor to USDT and USDC, I would argue...Although DAI is used less as a quote token on exchanges, the CDP has nonetheless found a way to embed...
36 Min
DeFi
Aug 2024
Mantle Network
Blast: Blast offers a unique bridge that accepts popular stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, or DAI....These are either converted into DAI or deposited into the Dai Savings Rate (DSR) to generate yield....Blast features the rebasing USDB, which is backed by DAI staked in the Dai Savings Rate (DSR).
16 Min
Asset Management
Jun 2024
The Revival of MakerDAO: Unpacking The MKR Thesis
DAI can either be utilized freely throughout DeFi markets or locked into the DAI Savings Rate (DSR) contract...ETH, wBTC) to mint DAI....through the D3M into various DAI/sUSDe and DAI/USDe pools on Morpho Blue....the total allocation up to 1B DAI....DAI.
18 Min
DeFi
May 2024
The Rise of Ethena: Unpacking The Emerging Synthetic Dollar
Said differently, the scalability of CDPs such as DAI is undermined by the need to collateralize 1 DAI...their DAI....After deploying 100m DAI through the Direct Deposit Module (D3M) into Spark’s sUSDe/DAI and USDe/DAI...DAI backing).
40 Min
DeFi
Apr 2024
Contango: A Forward-looking Approach to Leverage
...by the portion of Contango open interest in correlated pairs such as wstETH/ETH, weETH/WETH, sUSDe/DAI...
13 Min
DeFi
Jun 2024
The Delegated Authorization Network: Trust Minimization in the Age of AI
...users could hypothetically set the following parameters: Swapping can only be done between USDC, USDT, DAI...
21 Min
Artificial Intelligence
Jul 2024
Diving Into Dark Pools
Shielding common stablecoins like USDC or DAI will offer greater anonymity than shielding unknown meme...
27 Min
DeFi
Jun 2024
How “Oracle-less Primitives” Are Rearchitecting DeFi
For example, let’s say ETH is trading at 2000 DAI....If I deposit 1000 DAI into the DAI/ETH pool at the 1600 price bucket, I am therefore willing to lend...my 1000 DAI against ETH at a value of 1600 DAI....price is 1200 DAI / 1 ETH or 1200 DAI/ETH.
28 Min
DeFi
Mar 2024
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
Heavy cryptographic… https://t.co/6mQxbaYIie — Wei Dai (@_weidai) September 27, 2024 In this context...
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
Ethena YT Yields Jump
Another alternative is Morpho’s USDE/DAI 91.5% LTV pool paying out the highest yield at 219% APY at current...
3 Min
DeFi
Dec 2024