MakerDAO
Financial Presentation
March 2021
Preliminary notes
This presentation is provided as is and is still a work in progress and shouldn’t be relied on for anything.
Maker is subdivided in 3 business lines:
While all queries can be subjected to bugs, the liabilities data are known to have some issues and are only estimations at this point.
Most data are sourced from
Monthly results
Increasing interest income due to loans demand and higher stability fees
Trading increase due to DAI demand for farming activities.
Lower volatility volatility leading to not many liquidations. Black Thursday in march 2020
No expenses this month. Core Unit expenses starting in April.
Trading contains non-liquidable vaults and the PSM. Recurring excludes trading and liquidation income (but keep workforce expenses).
Monthly results
Trading contains non-liquidable vaults and the PSM. Recurring excludes trading and liquidation income (but keep workforce expenses).
Lending business
Sharp income increase ($8.1M vs $4.8M last month)
Increasing dependency on ETH-A (77% from 75% last month)
Yield is based on income divided by the average between the starting of the period and the end (not 100% accurate). Trading assets (like stablecoins except USDT) are excluded.
Lending income: $8.1M
($4.8M last month, +69%)
o/w ETH-A: $6.3M (77%)
Average yield: 5.27% (4.04% last month)
Loans balance: $2,010M
($1,686M last month, +19%)
Trading business
Increased demand for DAI using the USDC swap.
Still no reverse trade (DAI -> USDC)
PSM revenues: $407,721
($197,651 last month, +106%)
Inventory: $980M
($658M last month, +49%)
Mainly USDC
Liquidation business
Low volatility environment
All income and losses are aggregated during the month. Only the net results is displayed
Income: $0.2M
Balance sheet
Assets
Stablecoins
Market share
Volume: 8%
Last month: 17%
Last year: 6%
Transaction volume
Market MoM growth: -8%
DAI MoM growth: -54%
Market YoY growth: x6.7
DAI YoY growth: x9.1
DAI position
Risk
*RWA = Risk-weighted assets, stablecoins (excl. USDT) are weighted 0x, ETH-B loans are 2x, the rest is 1x
Leverage ratio = assets / equity (surplus buffer)
CET1 ratio = risk weighted assets / equity (surplus buffer)
Safety ratio are increasing faster than risk exposure thanks to the increase of the Surplus Buffer
Surplus Buffer: $19.7M
($10.97M last month, +80%)
Assets: $2,990M
($2,345M last month, +28%)
RWA*: $2,060M
($1,815M last month, +13%)
Leverage ratio: 0.66%
(0.47% last month, +19bps)
CET1 ratio: 0.96%
(0.44% last month, +35bps)
MKR Valuation
MKR Price: $2,031
vs $2,105 (+4%)
Earning Yield: 4.65%
vs 2.82% last month
Equity per MKR: $19.79
vs $11.02 last month
Monthly recurring earnings doesn’t include liquidations and trading activity
The earning yield is the annualized earning per MKR token divided by last MKR price of the month