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DAI

DAI is a decentralized stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, issued through the Maker/Sky Protocol via collateralized crypto loans.

Known aliases

  • DAI stablecoin

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

A one-wei deposit let an attacker withdraw 14,838 DAI from a Polygon Uniswap V4 vault

An attacker with one share unit withdrew about 14,838 DAI from a Polygon Uniswap V4 vault on October 9, Panda Security found. The zero-liquidity fallback paid out the whole balance, so every fallback needs the main path's proportional-payout check.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence65
investConfirmed3 publishers

Moody's rates Sky Protocol B3 over a capital cushion under 1% of assets

Moody's rated Sky Protocol B3, its first stablecoin-protocol rating, citing about $90 million of equity behind roughly $10 billion of assets. That cushion is under 1%, well short of the 2.5% capital ratio Moody's set as its bar for an upgrade.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 10%
Operator
Operator 28%
Investor
Investor 62%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption58
Hype gap+10
Incentives50
Confidence68
productConfirmed2 publishers

Aztec brings zk.money back as a private stablecoin wallet capped at $2,500 a transfer

Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money as a private DAI wallet that caps every transfer at $2,500 and all users' deposits combined at $50,000 a day. Raising either limit means a new contract that each user must opt into. The caps arrive while US law on privacy wallets remains unsettled.

Publishers:decrypt.co gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Compound delegate accuses the Foundation of voting 344,780 COMP bought with DAO reserves

Compound delegate Ugurmersin alleges the Foundation turned 8.42M DAI of DAO reserves into 344,780 COMP and voted it to win treasury control. If the chain record agrees, the only people enforcing the reserve's written limits were the signers accused of breaking them.

Reality

Evidence22
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence30
investOne report1 publisher

One address-poisoning operator drained $9.4M from 15 Tron wallets in four weeks

MetaMask and Trust Wallet both ship poisoning detection, and both keep it on EVM chains, which leaves Tron users doing the character-by-character checking themselves. The two largest victims paid $2.5M each.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption55
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

A 2022 oracle hack starts moving again, three days after Pando shut its books

The Pando Rings exploiter swapped 3 million DAI for about 1,570 ETH on CoW Protocol, then pushed 800 ETH into Tornado Cash as the protocol entered maintenance mode.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption48
Hype gap+14
Incentives58
Confidence40