MakerDAO priper e rebounds as DAI holds its peg and investors searper h for stableper oin seper urity
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Its been a rough couple of weeks for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin (BTC) price is nowhere near the price estimates of most analysts, multiple stablecoins lost their peg and the demise of one of the top decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms sparked an event that resulted in $900 billion vanishing from the total crypto market capitalization.In the midst of the widespread fallout, MakerDAO (MKR) managed to turn crisis into opportunity and the collapse of TerraUSD (UST) has brought renewed attention to DAI, the longest-running decentralized stablecoin. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that as the collapse of Terra (LUNA) price accelerated from May 9 to May 12, MKR climbed 66.2% from a low of $952 on May 12 to its current value of $1,587.Three possible reasons for the MKR's reversal in momentum include DAI maintaining its peg during the recent market turmoil, the use of a MakerDAO vault to finance supply chain shipments and the addition of staked Ether (ETH) as a form of collateral to mint DAI. DAI holds steady during strong market turbulence One of the most significant factors giving investors more confidence in the MakerDAO ecosystem is the fact that DAI held its dollar peg during a shaky market that saw a handful of the most popular stablecoins lose their pegs. Real-world adoption continues Another factor providing a boost to MKR is its growing real world adoption. Recently, the MakerDAO vault was used to finance a shipment of Australian beef and additional "use cases" are being planned.On May 9, a MakerDAO vault was utilized in conjunction with the decentralized asset financing protocol Centrifuge to allow the trade finance provider ConsolFreight to mint DAI that was used to finance the transaction. A nonfungible token (NFT) that contained the shipment and invoice data was also minted in the process for tracking purposes and to help keep a record of the transaction. The shipment is also being tracked using Provenance, Mastercard’s blockchain traceability solution.This transaction helped to demonstrate one application of smart contracts and stablecoins in the supply chain industry.ETH2 allows those participating in staking on the Ethereum BNB Chain to gain access to funds that would be otherwise locked up for an unknown amount of time and put them to use earning a yield in DeFi.The collapse of UST, its knock-on effects and the addition of Ether as collateral positions MakerDAO as the top-ranked DeFi protocol by total value locked (TVL), according to data from Defi Llama.MakerDAO claiming the top spot comes after Curve, another popular stablecoin liquidity protocol, saw its TVL fall from $19.32 billion on May 5 to $8.71 billion on May 16.