Protocol Engineering

The Protocol Engineering Core Unit secures a wealth of engineering, security, research and smart contract development experience ensuring that the Maker protocol can safely continue to grow as a DeFi leader.

Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling

SES aims to sustainably grow the Maker Protocol’s moats by removing barriers between decentralized workforce, capital, and work.

Collateral Engineering Services

The Collateral Engineering Services Core Unit aims to operationalize collateral management within the Maker Protocol allowing anyone to onboard collateral while ensuring the stability and security of the ecosystem.

Risk

The Risk Core Unit ensures Maker Protocol can continue to grow safely by having proper risk management parameters and risk mitigation tools applied.

Governance Alpha

Helping to ensure MakerDAO has a consistent and well-run governance process managed by elected facilitators.

Real-World Finance

This Core Unit is designed to pursue Real-World Asset work and more generally helps MakerDAO to take over the traditional finance world.

Growth

The Growth Core Unit aims to grow the available distribution channels for the Maker protocol by intelligently deploying the human and financial capital given by the DAO, increasing the supply and demand of Dai in the global markets. 

Oracles

The Oracles Core Unit handles all of the Oracle needs of the Maker Protocol.

Governance Communications

The Governance Communications Core Unit performs a set of programs that focus on MakerDAO's informational accessibility, stakeholder coordination, and communication practices as a decentralized and public organization.

Dai Foundation

The independent legal entity Dai Foundation has been created to safeguard what cannot be decentralized in Maker DAO, such as ownership of trademarks, domains, software copyrights, etc., which is connected to a real-world centralized governance body.

Strategic Happiness

Strategic Happiness focuses on making people happy and creating a community by Shitposting and sending Airdrops.

Development & UX

Enabling the best-in-class decentralized decision making for the Maker Protocol by providing a meaningful user experience for all governance participants.

Starknet Engineering

This Core Unit opens the door to leveraging StarkNet to keep the Maker protocol attractive to users in the ZK-rollup, Layer 2 domain.

Data Insights

Data Insights Core Unit is responsible for providing free and permissionless datasets based on detailed Maker Protocol history.

Immunefi Security

The overall goal of the Immunefi Security CU is to secure the Maker ecosystem through multiple angles by leveraging its existing and growing security community and expertise. 

Sidestream Auction Services

Improve security, transparency and accessibility of the Maker Protocol by providing and maintaining auction services through open-source development.

Deco Protocol

Deco Fixed Rate Core Unit aims to integrate, manage, and maintain the Deco fixed rate protocol.

Strategic Finance

Providing financial reporting and analysis to assist the DAO in evaluating the financial health of the protocol to enable strategic decision making and allocate capital more effectively.

TechOps

Tech Ops Core Unit provides technical support services to MakerDAO stakeholders and liaison with external service providers while ensuring the effectiveness, reliability and security of the MakerDAO infrastructure layer.

Events

The Events Core Unit handles planning, organization, and execution of MakerDAO branded events.

Content Production

The Content Production core unit is responsible for creating, and supporting the creation of written, audio, and visual content that educates audiences on MakerDAO, promotes the work and culture of the ecosystem, and encourages people to use Dai and the Maker Protocol.

soren marked the DAIF-001 2024-07 Expense Report as final

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for July 2024

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for February 2024

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for November 2023

soren commented on the DAIF-001 2024-01 Expense Report

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for October 2023

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CoreUnit DAIF has updated their expense report for September 2023

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for August 2023

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CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for July 2023

CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for June 2023

soren marked the DAIF-001 2023-05 Expense Report as final

CoreUnit DAIF has published a new expense report for May 2023

soren reopened the DAIF-001 2023-05 Expense Report

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soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-12 Expense Report as final

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Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for December 2022

soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-11 Expense Report as final

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for November 2022

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soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-09 Expense Report as final

soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-08 Expense Report as final

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soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-03 Expense Report as final

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Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for March 2022

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soren marked the DAIF-001 2022-01 Expense Report as final

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for January 2023

Permanent Team (DAI)

Core Unit DAIF-001 currently does not work with an Core Unit Auditor to top up its operational wallet but streams funds directly from the Maker protocol.

Ops Wallet

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for July 2023

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Permanent Team

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for October 2022

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for September 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for September 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for August 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for July 2022

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The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for May 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for April 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for March 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for February 2022

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for January 2022

soren marked the DAIF-001 2021-12 Expense Report as final

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for December 2021

soren marked the DAIF-001 2021-11 Expense Report as final

soren commented on the DAIF-001 2021-11 Expense Report

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for November 2021

soren marked the DAIF-001 2021-10 Expense Report as final

Core Unit DAIF has published a new expense report for October 2021

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for October 2021

soren marked the DAIF-001 2021-09 Expense Report as final

The DAIF Core Unit submitted a new budget statement for September 2021