Sky will not re-rebrand as MakerDAO after a community vote that favored keeping the new identity.

The rebranding is central to founder Rune Christensen’s “Endgame” strategy, which aims to reshape the protocol for more competitiveness and resilience.

MakerDAO Governance Vote Dominated By Whales

Sky confirmed the identity stay in a post on X after an on-chain vote to continue using the new brand name as the ecosystem’s primary backend protocol.

“This decision supports the ongoing transition from MKR to SKY and establishes Sky as the core brand, denoting both the Sky app frontend and the backend Sky Ecosystem and Sky Protocol,” the project team said.

The governance polls show that the proposal to revert Sky to its original Maker branding faced substantial opposition. Specifically, nearly 80% of the vote share leaned toward maintaining the Sky identity as the protocol’s “backend protocol brand.”

The decision revealed an underlying centralization issue within MakerDAO’s governance. According to Sky’s voting metrics, four large entities controlled most of the voting power. Each entity secured about 20% of the votes, and only one prominent entity voted against the proposal. This left smaller stakeholders with limited influence over the outcome.

“Four MKR whales hold 98% of voting power, rejecting the rebranding of the DeFi protocol Sky back to Maker. This highlights the influence of a few in decentralized governance. It raises concerns about true decentralization in such ecosystems,”

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Author: Lockridge Okoth