MakerDAO founder announces plans for fully decentralized 'PureDai' launch in the coming years.

MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen has outlined plans to launch a new stablecoin, tentatively called PureDai, as part of the protocol’s broader “Endgame” roadmap. PureDai is envisioned as a fully decentralized successor to Dai that will launch “in a few years,” with Christensen stressing that it will not be ready for some time and that community input is expected during the design phase. The system is intended to be immutable at launch, with no further upgrades, operating independently of Maker governance once deployed. PureDai is designed as an “idealized Dai” that returns to Ethereum’s cypherpunk and decentralization-first roots by using only highly decentralized collateral, such as ETH and Lido staked ETH (stETH), avoiding centralized assets like USDC that currently back a large share of Dai. Its stability mechanism will differ from fiat-pegged stablecoins: PureDai will use a free-floating target price rather than a strict 1:1 dollar peg, supported by maximally decentralized oracles and minimal governance, with no budgets or ongoing contributor payments. The protocol will be permanently deployed on Ethereum mainnet, with any L2 and cross-chain bridging left to the broader ecosystem. Within MakerDAO’s dual-track Endgame strategy, PureDai is positioned as the high-decentralization option, while a separate asset, NewStable, is planned as a regulated, RWA-backed, dollar-pegged stablecoin that assumes most of Dai’s current mainstream functions. Dai holders and users will eventually be able to upgrade to PureDai or migrate to NewStable, and an initial PureDai governance token supply of around 2 billion is slated to be distributed over five years to NewStable users to bootstrap decentralized ownership and development incentives. This architecture is meant to resolve tensions between growth, regulatory alignment, and decentralization by clearly separating a fully decentralized “pure” stablecoin from a compliance-ready, fiat-pegged product.

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