🏦 MakerDAO Has Brought in Real World Assets. Is It Worth the Risk?

Insider insights on MakerDAO's 2022 financial report 📊, Lido's future, and managing a decentralized treasury with Stakehouse Financial's Sébastien Derivaux and adcv.

In this Premium interview, Laura talks with Sébastien Derivaux and adcv, “chefs” at Stakehouse Financial. They reached out to talk about the 2022 Maker DAO financial report, but we also ended up discussing many more things, such as the introduction of real world assets into web3, the future of liquid staking protocol Lido, and the nuances of managing a treasury in a decentralized ecosystem.

Maker’s Financials

In the 2022 financial report, Sébastien discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that MakerDAO faced over the past year. He mentions a loan to Celsius, which was quite sizable at $400 million, but he notes that despite concerns about potential defaults, the loan was ultimately repaid without any major issues. In fact, Sébastien mentions that Maker even made some liquidation fees during big market crashes.