Makercoin: The first tradeable asset on ethereum
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Maker
autonomous bank & market maker
Maker insures and earns income from the collateralized debt of the Dai Credit System. Maker transfers this income to the 1,000,000* Makercoin by continuously buying and burning supply over time. This results in a steadily decreasing supply, and a steadily increasing price.
* The initial MKR supply is 1,000,000. It decreases over time.You'll have to read the Dai white paper to understand what that means...Due to its function as
insuring asset of the Dai Credit System, Makercoins earn an income which initially sits at 2% of the value of all outstanding Dai Bonds (USD pegged stablecoin). This gives makercoin an intrinsic value equal to the Net Present Value of the projected future cash flows generated by the outstanding Dai. Because they are an insuring asset, Makercoin carry incredible risk. They are vulnerable to forced inflation if a Dai collateral asset suffers a catastrophic crash - a so called black swan event (an example is ether or bitcoin crashing with more than 30% in a few minutes). The insurance rate (initially 2%) can be autonomously varied over time to compensate for serious losses, and Makercoin owners are able to govern the debt ceilings (and thus risk) using a simplified futarchy.
MKR coin contract deployment date:
Wednesday August 19Scheduled upcoming releases:
Wiki and community bounties USD and CNY on-rampsSupply side price control and trading bands Decentralized margin trading on EthereumThe Maker, autonomous bank & market maker contract system will deploy to the Ethereum blockchain
early next year. It is an open source contract system that deploys Maker to fulfill the functions specified in the Dai white paper. The Nexus development dynasty raises funds to help speed up development of Maker, but takes no responsibility for its performance once deployed, and are not entering into any contract when selling off Makercoins (meaning: do full due diligence on everything before you consider buying. This is an extremely high risk asset.)
Read more at
http://makerdao.com/MKR Now trading at
Maker OTC.