TechFlow reports that Rune Christensen, founder of MakerDAO, has published an article in the community titled "Exploring a Solana Codebase Fork for NewChain." The article states that the fifth and final phase of the MakerDAO protocol will be rebuilt on a new independent blockchain called NewChain. Achieving this phase could take at least three years or even longer.
The primary reason for choosing NewChain is its ability to recover the ecosystem via hard forks in response to the most severe governance attacks or technical failures. It also allows for resolving up to eight years of accumulated technical debt. This means all components of the protocol can be purposefully rebuilt according to their exact roles in the ultimate, permanent Endgame technical design. NewChain will primarily host the backend of the Maker protocol and sub-DAOs, while all user-facing products and systems will remain unchanged and continue operating on Ethereum, L2s, or other blockchains. These systems will connect to NewChain through the Maker protocol to ensure secure high-level bridging.
Rune indicated that the Solana stack is the most likely codebase to be adopted for NewChain.
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The first reason is the technical quality of the Solana codebase, which has been highly optimized for a single efficient blockchain—exactly what NewChain requires.
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The second reason is that the Solana ecosystem has demonstrated resilience by surviving the FTX collapse.
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The third reason is that there are already examples of the Solana codebase being forked and adapted into application-specific chains.
In addition, the Cosmos codebase remains an alternative option. The biggest difference between Cosmos and Solana is that Cosmos does not prioritize efficiency as strongly as Solana does, implying higher costs for maintaining and sustaining performance. Furthermore, Cosmos lacks a centralized foundation as strong as Solana’s, which could be either beneficial or detrimental.
