Sky votes to remove Wrapped Bitcoin as collateral amid community concerns

Sky, formerly MakerDAO, decided to region the usage of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) arsenic collateral for borrowing done a governance ballot concluded connected Sept. 19.

BA Labs, the erstwhile Risk Core Unit, was named stableness advisor for the process. The entity besides suggested removing WBTC arsenic a collateral option.

Starting Oct. 3, SparkLend, the wealth marketplace successful the Sky ecosystem, volition commencement reducing the collateral headdress for utilizing WBTC arsenic collateral for borrowing. Additionally, measures specified arsenic reducing the liquidation threshold and raising linear interpolation volition beryllium implemented to marque WBTC vaults little charismatic to users.

According to the proposal, the full process is expected to extremity connected Nov. 14, but it could perchance instrumentality much time.

SparkLend’s dashboard shows that WBTC is utilized arsenic collateral for $61.2 cardinal successful indebtedness connected the level Most of WBTC’s liabilities are successful DAI, 1 of Sky’s ecosystem autochthonal stablecoins.

Of the 108,689 Maker (MKR) tokens allocated arsenic votes, 95,826 MKR (88.1%) voted favorably for the wind-down plan. Moreover, the ballot had 12,863 MKR (11.8%) successful abstentions and nary votes against the proposal.

Changes successful WBTC rise concerns

BA Labs’ connection successful Sky’s governance followed BitGo’s announcement of a multi-jurisdictional custody exemplary to accelerate a planetary enlargement plan. The program includes a associated task with BiT Global, with the caller associated task gaining nonstop power implicit WBTC.

The determination led to respective concerns successful the industry, which intensified aft 12,000 BTC were removed from USDD’s backing, which was also included successful the BA Labs proposal. USDD is the stablecoin tied to the TRON ecosystem.

Mike Belshe, CEO astatine BitGo, was actively trying to debar the removal of WBTC arsenic collateral connected SparkLend. Belshe adjacent stated that the determination would wounded users who don’t person the indispensable stablecoin magnitude to region their WBTC arsenic collateral from the platform.

However, the BitGo CEO’s statement was not capable to sway voters and forestall the removal of the synthetic Bitcoin (BTC) from SparkLend’s collateral list.

Additionally, Aave is besides assessing the risks of having WBTC arsenic a viable collateral option, with a Sept. 18 proposal by LlamaRisk pushing to trim the loan-to-value successful WBTC vaults to zero. The connection besides suggested lowering proviso and borrowing caps.

Both Sky and Aave are looking for options to regenerate WBTC, specified arsenic Coinbase’s cbBTC and Threshold’s tBTC.

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