DAI: Dai, developed and maintained by MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization, was released in December 2017. Dai’s aim, like the USDT and USDC, is to keep the value of each token as close to US$1 as possible. It facilitates this through MakerDAO’s automated system of smart contracts in the form of a decentralised application that is hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. Sign up for the Decrypt Daily below. (It’s free). This question does not have a plain vanilla answer in ‘yes’ or ‘no’, as the government and the central bank still look unsure as to how to deal with this new-age phenomenon. In 2018, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out strongly and kind of banned these tokens in India. Then in 2020, the Supreme Court of India reversed the RBI ban. That move was welcomed by the crypto exchanges and investors throughout the country. After this, Indian banks have tried to curtail transactions with crypto-exchanges as, in their view, they are governed by RBI. But later, RBI mentioned that banks cannot quote its 2018 ban to customers as it was overruled by the Supreme Court, paving the way for crypto trading to continue in India.
Our team worked on Oasis, Oasis Direct, and Eth2Dai components which are responsible for exchanging DAI, ETH, and MKR assets. That exchange is powered by the on-chain order book which keeps track of the entire state of the exchange. To add an offer, users have to complete transactions on the Ethereum blockchain. The front-end components are true-dapps; they only show the state of the blockchain and don’t rely on any centralized back-end components. This feature makes Oasis markets unique on the cryptocurrency scene. What Are Stablecoins? The DAI is an algorithmic stablecoin, i.e. a cryptocurrency whose value is linked to the value of a fiat currency - in this case the US dollar, through the use of an algorithm. Created by Maker DAO, it has a total market capitalization of more than $7 billion.