MakerDAO Reports $12.57 Million in Net Income for April

Original decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, MakerDAO has released the financial report for April 2021. Yet again, the protocol recorded growing income for the month. Maker DAO broke past the $12 million this time, up 44% from the previous month’s $8.7 million. These insane numbers show that the stablecoin minter has come a long way over the past year, as in April 2020, its net income was less than $51k. Maker has three business lines -- 1: Lending where DAI is lent against strong collateral, i.e., non-dollar backed stablecoins. 2: Trading, which involves exchanges of DAI with other dollar-backed stablecoins. 3: Liquidation, which involves liquidating loan collateral before losing money. MakerDAO’s latest income resulted from increasing interest income due to loan demand accounting for $10.3 million, up 27% from the previous month, of all the net income. The average yield during the month was 5.15%, about the same as March. Project’s trading business saw a deep decline, down 61% due to slowing demand on the USDC PSM and lower fees (0.04% vs. 0.10%) on PSM outflow. Liquidations provided it with $2.2 million, which was mainly because of one big ETH-B vault. When it comes to stablecoin on-chain volume, DAI recorded 63% MoM growth, increasing its market share from 4% last year to 11% now. MakerDAO is also currently dominating the Ethereum DeFi scene with $11.52 billion in total value locked (TVL), as per DeFi Pulse. In response to all the growth amidst the bull market, the MKR price is hitting new all-time highs; today's new one was at $5,644. “Thanks to a good business performance and some MKR burning, we have generated $10 for each token this month. The market decided that the price that was too cheap it seems,” said Sébastien Derivaux, head of real-world finance at MakerDAO. MakerDAO also made its very first real-world asset-backed loan with real estate project New Silver, currently at $588k and growing. [deco-beg-single-coin-widget coin="MKR"]