Set WBTC Collateral Factor to 65%
01Summary
Increase WBTC collateral factor from 0% to 65%, allowing users to use WBTC as collateral on Compound. This brings WBTC in line with DAI, USDC, and ETH (which are at 75%), justified by WBTC's high market liquidity and volatility comparable to ETH. The change cannot trigger liquidations and aims to diversify borrowing assets away from DAI concentration risk.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- WBTC collateral factor increased from 0% to 65%(high)
- WBTC can now be used as collateral while previously it could only be loaned and borrowed(high)
- Brings WBTC collateral factor closer to DAI, USDC, and ETH (currently at 75%)(medium)
Notable concerns
- Risk of large amounts of WBTC minting mentioned in prior discussion, though proposer assesses as very low
- Similar concentration risk already exists with DAI and 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 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 describes a single action: setting WBTC's Collateral Factor to 65%. The decoded calldata contains exactly one action calling _setCollateralFactor with a value of 650000000000000000, which equals 65% in the standard 18-decimal fixed-point format used by Compound's Comptroller. The target address is the cWBTC market token, consistent with the described asset. There are no additional actions, transfers, role changes, or other side effects in the calldata beyond this single parameter update, matching the description's explicit claim that 'this proposal makes no changes beyond setting the Collateral Factor of WBTC to 65%.' The magnitude, direction (increase), and target all align between prose and calldata. No value mismatches, target mismatches, omissions, or misleading phrasing were found.
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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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