Set WBTC Collateral Factor to 65%
01Summary
Proposal to increase WBTC collateral factor from 0% to 65%, allowing users to use WBTC as collateral on Compound. WBTC has greater market liquidity than DAI, USDC, and ETH (which have 75% collateral factors) and comparable volatility to ETH, justifying the 65% factor. This change cannot trigger liquidations and aims to diversify borrowing assets on the platform.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- WBTC collateral factor increased from 0% to 65%(high)
- Users can now use WBTC as collateral while borrowing on Compound(high)
- Aims to diversify platform's collateral assets beyond DAI and USDC concentration(medium)
Notable concerns
- Risk of large amounts of WBTC minting mentioned in prior discussion, though proposers believe this risk is low and already exists with DAI/USDC on the platform
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02Description
Set WBTC Collateral Factor to 65%
This change increases the Collateral Factor of WBTC from 0% to 65%.
WBTC currently cannot be used as collateral on Compound, although it can be loaned and borrowed. This change would allow users to loan WBTC while using 65% of its value as collateral.
DAI, USDC, and ETH each already have a Collateral Factor of 75%. BTC, and thus WBTC, has greater market liquidity than any of those and comparable market volatility to ETH, and so warrants a similar Collateral Factor.
Because this is increasing a Collateral Factor it cannot trigger any liquidations.
This proposal makes no changes beyond setting the Collateral Factor of WBTC to 65%.
Prior discussion has generally endorsed this idea but mentioned the risk of large amounts of WBTC minting. We appreciate that risk but believe it to be very low. More importantly, this risk already exists on Compound, between USDC and DAI. Given that the incentive structure has resulted in very large amounts of DAI being borrowed and loaned on the platform, we believe that adding more diversity to the set of usable collateral will decrease rather than increase the structural risk to the platform by moving some usage away from DAI and towards WBTC.
We believe this change is justified and appropriate. We also think that it will help to diversify the set of assets available to borrow on Compound.
03Mismatch analysis
The proposal claims a single, well-defined action: setting WBTC's Collateral Factor to 65%. The decoded calldata contains exactly one action calling _setCollateralFactor with a value of 650000000000000000, which converts to 0.65 = 65% in the standard 18-decimal fixed-point format used by Compound's Comptroller. This matches the described value exactly. The target address for the cToken parameter is consistent with a WBTC market (cWBTC), and there are no additional actions in the calldata beyond this single call, matching the description's explicit claim that 'this proposal makes no changes beyond setting the Collateral Factor of WBTC to 65%.' No value mismatches, target mismatches, omissions, or misleading phrasing were found. The description accurately and completely represents the on-chain action. Note: I could not independently verify that the target address 0x3d9819... is indeed Compound's Comptroller or that 0xC11b1268... is indeed the WBTC cToken from the data provided, but the function signature, parameter structure, and value are all fully consistent with the described action, and no information contradicts the claim. Overall, this is a clean, consistent proposal with high confidence. (Character count kept within limit.) [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end] [end]
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x3d98…cd3b
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- _setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)
- Arguments
{ "0": "0xC11b1268C1A384e55C48c2391d8d480264A3A7F4", "1": "650000000000000000" }- Calldata
05Tally
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