Vitalik Buterin Sells MKR Tokens as MakerDAO Co-Founder Pushes for Solana-based ‘NewChain’ - Decrypt

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sold $580,000 worth of MakerDAO's MKR tokens following concerns over the project's new chain being based on a Solana platform and offered suggestions to rival stablecoin platform Reflexer Finance on how to improve and compete with MakerDAO.

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