This is a chestnut tree. You could walk past it and not place much importance, it's just like another tree, right? Not at all. This is one of the most important plants that generate essential resources for life: The chestnut tree produces up to 100 pounds of chestnut per year, provides ample shade, grows over a broad climatic range and can live up to 800 years. A simple chestnut tree is a protector of life, even for cold winters and for several generations. In fact, it could be considered a shield against unnoticed events. You may have heard squirrels tales about taking chestnuts for the winter. It's a representation of reality. Actually, one chestnut tree can provide food for five squirrels over an entire year. Think about it: In a hot or cold place, the chetsnut tree will provide food, shade, home and life to many other living creatures for hundreds of years. Just like the squirrel that saves chestnuts for the winter and avoids its own death, the "liquidation" is an event that can always be avoided when managing a Maker Vault. This is why the chestnut tree can be designated as the safeguard of your Maker Vault. But now, from this moment, it's the representation of why you're using DeFi Saver: A defense that provides you with resources to keep your Vault healthy, no matter what unexpected situation arises. This is the recognition for putting that effort to defend your Maker Vault through DeFi Saver. This is why it is the best tool for protecting matters when you are managing the future of finance.

To celebrate the success of Ethereum Rio 2022 we created an exclusive collection of Official Ethereum.Rio POAPs for everyone who collaborated with the project.

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Q3 has been quite the wild beast to tame (not surprising for 2020)! We had yield farming and extremely high gas prices. It was trying times for the Dai peg as it fluctuated between $1 and $1.04 and MKR went about it between $448 and $860. MKR holders decided not to compensate vault holders from the ‘Black Thursday’ event in an extremely controversial vote on September 22nd. Some great people moved to other projects: big shoutout to Mariano Conti, Cyrus Younessi, and Rich Brown. Thanks for all your contributions and we hope to see you around. Yet despite the many rough edges, our community came together and managed to polish most of them gracefully. More great people joined us! We continued our path to decentralization with new domain facilitators and contributors. We made huge steps towards implementing Real-World Assets. Our Forum got an upgrade with NFT badges to recognize Governance participation. We launched Collateral Onboarding Calls, G&R call Snippets, the Maker Relay Newsletter, Liquidations 1.2, and a whole bunch of MIPs that probably merit an NFT on their own. Wear it with pride, fellow Maker Contributor! You earned it!