Many of the collateral onboarding procedures described here emerged organically as the Protocol matured over the last year. Given the difficulty in parsing the various available materials and understanding how to onboard an asset from A to Z, the MakerDAO community and project teams seeking to onboard collateral may find the process frustrating and cumbersome without a clear primer. Therefore, to smooth MakerDAO’s journey to complete decentralization, the domain teams and the Maker Foundation have synthesized the collateral onboarding processes into this series of “first-cut” guides.