MATIC is a development project on Ethereum's L2 layer and was chosen by Ethereum as a solution when launching ETH 2.0
We are seeing a lot of tx being done on MATIC. I think MATIC's capitalization will increase even higher in the future when ETH 2.0 comes out.
The recent declines show MATIC's strength as it consistently bounced above the $2 level and failed to drop below $1.