Set WBTC Collateral Factor to 40%
01Summary
Proposal to increase WBTC collateral factor from 0% to 40%, allowing WBTC to be used as collateral on Compound while maintaining conservative risk parameters. This change will not trigger liquidations and aims to diversify the platform's collateral assets.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- WBTC collateral factor increased from 0% to 40%(high)
- WBTC becomes usable as collateral while remaining below the 75% collateral factor of DAI, USDC, and ETH(medium)
- Reduces platform reliance on DAI and USDC as primary collateral by diversifying available collateral assets(medium)
Notable concerns
- Risk of large amounts of WBTC minting flagged in prior discussion, though proposer assesses risk as very low
- Similar structural risks already exist on platform with DAI and USDC
- Collateral factor set at 40% as compromise after community feedback requested lowering from originally proposed 65%
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02Description
Set WBTC Collateral Factor to 40%
This change increases the Collateral Factor of WBTC from 0% to 40%.
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 40% 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 40%.
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.
We originally proposed this change with a collateral factor of 65%. In response to community feedback, we are resubmitting with a collateral factor of 40%. We are grateful to the Compound community for the prompt and thoughtful responses to our first proposal. We understand the worries that many have, and while we supported (and still do support) taking the collateral factor up to 65% we completely respect the worries that many have with doing so. As such we hope that instead taking the collateral factor to 40%--well above 0 but lower than any other lendable asset on the platform--might be a middle ground.
03Mismatch analysis
The proposal contains a single decoded action: _setCollateralFactor(address,uint256) targeting what is described as the cWBTC market address with a value of 400000000000000000, which converts to 0.4, i.e., 40% in Compound's standard 18-decimal fixed-point representation. This exactly matches the description's claim of raising WBTC's collateral factor from 0% to 40%. The description explicitly states no other changes are being made, and the calldata contains exactly one action, consistent with that claim. There is no value mismatch (40% matches 4e17), no target mismatch (address corresponds to the WBTC market as referenced), and no omitted or extra actions. The proposal text is clear and specific, allowing high-confidence comparison against the calldata. No discrepancies of any kind were found.}
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x3d98…cd3b
- Value
- 0 wei
- Function
- _setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)
- Arguments
{ "0": "0xC11b1268C1A384e55C48c2391d8d480264A3A7F4", "1": "400000000000000000" }- Calldata
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