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Rune Christensen’s vision led to the creation of MakerDAO and the DAI stablecoin, emphasizing security and stability. The “Endgame Plan” aims to fully decentralize MakerDAO, transitioning DAI to a free-floating asset backed by real-world assets. The story of Rune Christensen starts on a little Danish island. Growing up in Copenhagen, he was a self-described “nerdy kid” intensely hooked on World of Warcraft. His path into the worlds of technology and finance changed dramatically when he learned about Bitcoin while still a University of Copenhagen student. Christensen had a dramatic change and found in Bitcoin a new goal and a way to question the newly rocked conventional financial system by the worldwide financial crisis. “I became really into that Bitcoin culture and the belief that we might use technology to solve global problems,” Christensen says. His first obsession with Bitcoin drove him more into the blockchain rabbit hole, where he eventually became involved with Bitshares, a project aiming at building a distributed exchange and stablecoin. Though Bitshares fell short of expectations, it prepared readers for Christensen’s next major project, MakerDAO. The Beginning of MakerDAO  2014 saw Christensen start MakerDAO with co-founder Nikolai Mushegian. The goal was to build a distributed stablecoin using Ethereum’s developing smart contract powers. Unlike many early blockchain initiatives that hurried to market, Christensen and Mushegyn gave security top priority and delayed product introductions until they were sure their resilience would be strong. This measured approach paid off, especially when well-publicized hacks claimed early blockchain projects like The DAO fell victim. Christensen credits MakerDAO’s resiliency in great part to Mushegian’s technical security emphasis. “We were lucky that my co-founder, Nikolai, noted the vulnerability of things like smart contracts to hacking,” Christensen says. This vision provided a strong basis for the long-term viability of the project and helped MakerDAO…

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