Today we are joined by Rune Christensen to discuss MakerDAO's Endgame. The Endgame is MakerDAO's roadmap to create the world's most widely used stablecoin. We discuss how Maker has evolved since 2015, MKR's underperformance, the 5 phases of the Endgame, what could go wrong and more!

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Timestamps:
00:00 MakerDAO's History: From Creation to Today
08:51 Codifying Rules to Scale
19:36 MKR’s Underperformance vs DAI’s Growth
24:36 Quicknode
26:25 Phase 1: Rebranding, New Tokens, Farming
37:37 Phase 2: SubDAOs, RWA Collateral & Tokenomics
55:59 Phase 3: Implementing AI
01:01:20 Phase 4 & 5: Voting Rewards and a Special Purpose Blockchain
01:05:40 The Bear Case
01:10:10 Allocator DAOs and Internalizing Value
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Resources

The Endgame Plan parts 1&2 (May 2022)
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/the-endgame-plan-parts-1-2/15456

The 5 phases of Endgame (May 2023)
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/the-5-phases-of-endgame/20830

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