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“I am death, the destroyer of the worlds, fully developed, and I am now active about the overthrow of the worlds. Even without you, the warriors standing in the adverse hosts, shall all cease to be.” – Bhagavad Gita 11.32.   1/x   Creative destruction is a cornerstone to the advancement of society. That is…

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Economics behind RWA – Part 2

As a follow-on to Part 1 of the Economics behind RWA, if we view the cost of capital from the lens of the borrower (especially when the cost of capital from Maker is zero), the interest paid can be viewed as a tax. Thus a similar economic theory surrounding taxation that can be found in…

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Translucent Finance – Off-chain lenders

In the course of ordinary business, many companies come in contact with “confidential” information. Being a Lender the in the Credit Tenant Lease space is no different. In addition to reviewing the lease and the financial statements from credit worthy tenants, the financial costs to do a specific projects, or even the personal financial statements…

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Real World Assets – CTL Document Roadmap – Getting started v1

Getting Real World Assets on Maker is an essential path to stabilize the DAI peg. Doing so is not trivial, not for the faint of heart, but completely achievable.    After some of my recent posts related to my initiative and contemplated structure and objectives, I have had several chat sessions and several calls with…

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Weekly (almost) Narrative on MakerDAO – 28 July 2019

General: During the course of the last week, the community held a polling vote where the winning proposal was to decrease the rate by 200bps to 18.5%. At the time of this narrative, the executive vote looks somewhat unlikely to pass as an edge case with the voting contract was discovered / stumbled upon. (Detailed…

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Weekly (almost) Narrative on MakerDAO – 02 July 2019

General: During the course of the last week, the community held a polling vote where the winning proposal was to increase the rate by 100bps to 17.5%. At the time of this narrative, the executive vote looks unlikely to pass as market conditions (a DAI price that had sagged slightly below 1.0000 has since partially…

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Weekly (almost) Narrative on MakerDAO – 26 June 2019

General: During the course of the last week, the community held a polling vote where the winning proposal was to increase the rate by 100bps to 17.5%. At the time of this narrative, the executive vote looks unlikely to pass as market conditions (a DAI price that had sagged slightly below 1.0000 has since recovered…

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Weekly (almost) Narrative on MakerDAO – 17 June 2019

General: During the course of the last week, the community held off on voting for a change to the Stability Fee (as the winning outcome on the poll showed no change for the then outstanding Stability Fee of 16.5% per annum). The community has maintained the polling frequency for another executive vote with some discussions…

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