MakerDAO members shoot down proposal for more centralization

MakerDAO members shoot down proposal for more centralization

MakerDAO members turned up in record numbers to preserve the principles of decentralization, setting new precedents for future DAO governance. In a major win for decentralization, members of MakerDAO, the lending protocol behind the Dai (DAI) stablecoin, have rejected a series of proposals that would have seen the protocol’s governance structure become more centralized. On June 27, the members of MakerDAO (MKR) showed up to consider three proposals that would have reorganized the leadership of the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) into something that more closely resembles a....


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