2024-August Centrifuge DAO: Monthly Summary

2024-August Centrifuge DAO: Monthly Summary

Welcome to our monthly summary* of news, events and governance updates from the Centrifuge DAO for August!
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Centrifuge launched an institutional RWA market on Base using the Morpho protocol and the newly founded Treasury Advisory Group started its mandate for the Centrifuge DAO with the release of the first Treasury Report Q2 2024! This, and much more, can be found in this newsletter!

Key Metrics

  • Total Value Locked (09/03/24): $300.7M (MakerDAO: $169.7M)
  • Total Assets Originated: $646M
  • Assets Tokenized: 1530
  • Token Holders: 54,340 Wallets (+159)

Ecosystem

The Ecosystem is focused on educating the world about Centrifuge, creating visibility and opportunity for RWAs, and sharing the narrative of how the world’s credit will be financed through DeFi.

August highlights include:

Community

The Community is represented primarily by individuals and organizations that are actively participating in governance, contributing to processes and discourse, and are economically tied to the success of Centrifuge.

  • Centrifuge announced this month the launch of the first RWA lending market on Base using the Morpho Protocol. :moneybag: The market represents a significant step in creating new financial onchain infrastructure by:
    • First market launched with multiple RWA issuers
    • First RWA Market on Base
    • First institutional use case of Coinbase Verifications
  • If you want to dive deeper into Diversifying Revenue Streams with RWAs, Benefits of RWAs, and how to Integrate RWAs you should definitely read the Mirror blog on How RWAs address DeFi’s Boom-Bust Cycles
  • A proposal in the Polkadot community is live to Earn RWA Yield on Idle Stablecoins via Centrifuge. This proposal is aimed at supporting the long-term sustainability of the Polkadot Treasury
  • We’re very happy to announce some exciting news, more than 54K Centrifuge token holders have been waiting for almost one year: Ledger support for CFG! :partying_face:

More community news and Social media coverage:

Proposal for the Polkadot Community to Earn RWA Yield on Idle Stablecoins via Centrifuge

https://twitterscore.io/twitter/centrifuge/overview/
https://x.com/SebVentures/status/1787902064061808881

More news from our ambassadors…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfNWIcNf74
https://x.com/cao_lab/status/1829638279454740718
https://x.com/aiweb3dao/status/1829155088251965761
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathon-chambless_rwasummer-dataprovenanceaec-bimheroes-activity-7235153655107043328-wL4O
https://x.com/bella_rwa/status/1816192353486684581

Save the date: :date:
RWA Singapore | September 17 @TOKEN2049 :tickets:
Real-World Asset Summit New York | October 22 & 23 :tickets:

Governance

  • To get an overview see the monthly Governance update provided by the Governance & Coordination Group. A most recently closed proposal to give a mandate to the Treasury advisory group and a current one for the Recovery of lost tokens in a bridge transaction.
  • The Treasury Advisory Group (TAG) has gotten its mandate and the group presented the first Treasury Report for Q2 2024. The goal is to show the state of the treasury including holdings, inflows, outflows, and overall financial performance. Are you curious to know more about the Treasury Advisory Group (TAG) in general? It is a team of experts tasked with advising on all treasury-related activities for the Centrifuge DAO.
  • There was no Governance Call in August due to Holidays. See you next time for GC #30 on September 18!
    *Reminder: If you haven’t joined a gov call yet, you have to register via the link in the forum post.

:exclamation:Please actively participate in the governance process, leave your comments and remarks in the RFCs and vote on proposals​:exclamation: :ballot_box::writing_hand:

Protocol

The Protocol is represented primarily by organizations that are actively using Centrifuge’s technology to facilitate the underwriting, structuring, and financing of RWAs.

Product & Engineering

Stay tuned for the next monthly update with more news, governance updates and developments from the ecosystem!

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