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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Societe Generale proposes historic $20M DAI loan in exchange for bond tokens

The digital assets division of the international bank wants to provide home loan-backed security tokens as collateral for the loan.

One of France’s leading banks has turned to decentralized finance pioneer MakerDAO to propose the submission of bond tokens as collateral for a loan of the DAI stablecoin.

The historic proposal called “Security Tokens Refinancing” was submitted to Maker’s governance forums by the international bank on Oct. 1. It would be the first major collaboration between a traditional bank and a DeFi protocol and could open the door for closer integration between the two sectors.

Societe Generale (SG) labeled it as the “first experiment at the crossroads between regulated and open source initiatives.”

The bank has proposed that it provides “OFH” security tokens (obligations de financement de l’habitat) which are characterized as covered bonds under French law, and backed by home loans.

These would be used to collateralize a $20 million loan in Maker’s DAI stablecoin which would be mediated by a number of legal entities and mature in six to nine months.

The Ethereum-based security tokens were issued in May 2020 with a nominal amount of 40 million Euro ($46.3M) and a fixed rate of 0%. They mature in May 2025 and have the top credit rating of AAA by rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch.

MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen said he had “no clue” about this proposal, adding that “this is one of multiple recent examples in Maker Governance of how the post-foundation model of organization is proving to be more scalable.”

Industry observer “DCInvestor” commented on the potential impact of deals such as this on Ethereum and its position as a global settlement layer:

“Societe Generale with their attempt to get their on-chain assets usable in Maker and you're wondering if Ethereum will become a global settlement layer it's happening, now.”

SG stated that the loan would be a “pilot use case,” with the goal of helping to “shape and promote an experiment under the French legal framework,” and “enhance a profitable service and foster liquidity for digital bonds.”

SG Forge, a regulated subsidiary of the bank that deals with crypto assets, is managing the proposal which is based on the open-source framework CAST (Compliant Architecture for Security Tokens).

The legal framework for the deal is complex as it needs to integrate an institutional financial organization with a decentralized governance-based network. A flowchart provided by the bank details six separate entities involved in the process. These include the registrar Societe Generale Forge, the bank itself SG, MakerDAO, a legal representative for the DeFi protocol, security agent DIIS Group, and a third-party exchange agent.

Source: forum.makerdao.com

Related: Senator Warren’s office confuses MakerDAO for failed 2016 project The DAO

Pseudonymous MakerDAO community member ‘PaperImperium’ commented on the proposal in the forum:

“Maker and SocGen-Forge are standing at the precipice of financial history. What a time to be alive.”

The proposal is currently being discussed and will move to a formal governance vote in the weeks to come.

It is not the first time Societe Generale has dabbled with Ethereum-based security tokens. In April 2019, the bank’s SG Forge unit issued a 100 million Euro bond as an OFH security token on Ethereum.

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