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by ppf 2289 days ago
Traded? You mean loaned. That was always the wording that was used to promote DAI, whatever the underlying transaction might be.
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Users didft "loan" their lost ETH, they traded the ETH in as collateral and took out a loan in DAI.

This collateral trade was made with full awareness that if the loan became under collateralized the ETH would be liquidated and sold at auction