DCR had been dumped by miners for a long time, but with the introduction of the BLAKE3 hash function, ASICs became unusable and coins could no longer be handed over to miners.
Furthermore, by drastically reducing the PoW reward to 1%, coins are prevented from being handed over to anyone other than coin holders.
As a result, current short-stakes have no choice but to sell off their physical assets and lend them, so I think they will eventually reach a limit and start to rise.