2025-12-26 10:20:22

MakerDAO's subDAO model is worth a deep dive. Carefully examining the collaboration architecture between MakerDAO and Spark, the core savings and lending business is completely separated, while Spark maintains growth by continuously injecting USDS and DAI—remarkably, the profits generated from these businesses do not need to be fed back into the MakerDAO ecosystem.

On the surface, MakerDAO appears to have made a "severance" decision, but what is the underlying logic? Is it a strategic consideration or a structural mistake? Many DeFi projects are indeed observing this case—whether independently operating core businesses can generate greater ecosystem value, or if this separation will gradually marginalize the main protocol.

MakerDAO's choice of this route may have been intended to expand the ecosystem through subDAO, but from the perspective of profit distribution, whether this model can be sustainable in the long term is a question worth discussing. How do other DeFi projects view this kind of ecosystem segmentation strategy?

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LonelyAnchorman

· 11h ago

I feel like Maker's move is a bit of a gamble. Is it really worth it to give away the juicy parts?

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BrokenYield

· 11h ago

ngl, this is just maker slowly bleeding out through a thousand cuts. they're calling it "strategic independence" but it's really just protocol suicide in slow motion. once spark captures those yield flows, there's literally no reason for anyone to actually hold or use maker anymore. seen this movie before—2017 called, wants its failed governance model back.

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TxFailed

· 11h ago

nah this is giving "we spun off the profit machine then wondered why we're broke" energy... technically speaking, separating core biz from governance is actually how you tank a protocol long-term. learned this the hard way watching like three defi collapses lol

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FreeRider

· 12h ago

Basically, Maker's move here is a gamble—betting that Spark's independence will lead to faster growth and stronger recovery. But the problem is, Spark has taken all the core profits, so how does Maker itself survive? It feels a bit like shedding baggage, under the guise of ecosystem expansion.

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