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The DeFi Collective - August 2024 Report
Welcome to the Collectives’ August impact and treasury report. Driven by a huge increase in mainnet revenues, thanks to the market finally recognizing DYAD’s value as an innovative and capital-efficient CDP protocol, August saw the Collective generate its second top-month in terms of revenues and the best month ever in terms of earnings. The Collective’s focus on the mainnet DYAD position came just in time as L2 revenues cooled off over the month.
- Luude
Software licenses for DeFi
In DeFi, we regularly observe clashes between ideals and realities; the topic of software licensing models for DeFi protocols being one of the latest and most prominent examples. In DeFi’s early days, the consensus was to use fully open source licenses to align with DeFi’s ideals of openness and transparency. However, DeFi staple protocols such as Uniswap or Aave have recently opted for more restrictive licenses. Others such as EigenLayer or Liquity are following suit.
- Florian Prantl
The DeFi Collective - July 2024 Report
Welcome to the Collectives’ July impact and treasury report. Following a similar trajectory to the previous months, July saw the Collective maintain healthy revenues and an increased surplus that will be recycled back into supporting mission-critical projects with their liquidity.
- Luude