According to Cointelegraph, Rune Christensen, co-founder of MakerDAO, discussed the decoupling of DAI and USDC in a post. Rune Christensen said that given the sanctions imposed on Tornado Cash by the authorities, a physical crackdown on cryptocurrencies can happen without warning, leaving even legitimate, innocent users with no possibility of recovery. While revealing that the agreement cannot comply with regulators, "the path of decentralization must be chosen, which has always been the purpose of DAI." Foresight News previously reported that on August 12, Rune Christensen said in Discord that MakerDAO may choose to sell the agreement All USDC exposures in , this move may trigger the decoupling of DAI from the US dollar, and we need to be prepared for this situation. Currently, 80% of the collateral assets behind DAI are stablecoins, and 60% are USDC.