Regulation and Web3 have been a subject of policymakers recently, with conversations becoming elevated around DeFi. As former Maker Foundation employees who contributed to MakerDAO’s decentralization, some key elements from our experience can help shape the conversation to be more transparent, more definitive, and more applicable. Financial intermediaries are the foundation of financial services and the primary touchpoints for regulators, with activity-based regulation close behind. Decentral...

Regulation and Web3 have been a subject of policymakers recently, with conversations becoming elevated around DeFi. As former Maker Foundation employees who contributed to MakerDAO’s decentralization, some key elements from our experience can help shape the conversation to be more transparent, more definitive, and more applicable. Financial intermediaries are the foundation of financial services and the primary touchpoints for regulators, with activity-based regulation close behind. Decentral...

Today, we’re pleased to announce the UDHC, an initiative to bring DeFi to the mainstream. The UDHC will fund and guide projects that build on top of established DeFi ecosystems to achieve this goal. We believe in the amalgamation of Traditional and Decentralized Finance, where they will blend into a new, better, and more open definition of “Finance.” Operated by former Maker Foundation employees and led by Steven Becker (Former President & COO of the Foundation), our experience allows the UDH...

Today, we’re pleased to announce the UDHC, an initiative to bring DeFi to the mainstream. The UDHC will fund and guide projects that build on top of established DeFi ecosystems to achieve this goal. We believe in the amalgamation of Traditional and Decentralized Finance, where they will blend into a new, better, and more open definition of “Finance.” Operated by former Maker Foundation employees and led by Steven Becker (Former President & COO of the Foundation), our experience allows the UDH...

The Value in Gathering a CrowdTrading venues first and foremost represent a gathering of people. For example, Amsterdam’s “First Regular Trading Market,” a gathering that started on a street named Warmmoesstraat in the fifteenth century, led to the first stock exchange - The Amsterdam Stock Exchange. In the late eighteenth century, a gathering under a Buttonwood tree in New York led to the most iconic contemporary stock exchange, The New York Stock Exchange. The objective of the gatherings wa...

The Value in Gathering a CrowdTrading venues first and foremost represent a gathering of people. For example, Amsterdam’s “First Regular Trading Market,” a gathering that started on a street named Warmmoesstraat in the fifteenth century, led to the first stock exchange - The Amsterdam Stock Exchange. In the late eighteenth century, a gathering under a Buttonwood tree in New York led to the most iconic contemporary stock exchange, The New York Stock Exchange. The objective of the gatherings wa...