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Gauntlet Recommendations: Ethereum Compound v3 USDC - Interest Rate Curve & Incentive Changes

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01Summary

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Gauntlet proposes adjusting the Ethereum Compound v3 USDC interest rate curve and COMP reward distribution: increasing borrow kink from 90% to 95%, adding a 0.567 annual borrow interest rate slope, reducing daily borrow rewards by ~$22,800, and adding ~$6,000 daily supply rewards. These changes aim to eliminate reserve losses at high utilization and improve liquidity for borrowers and suppliers.

Type
parameter change

Key changes

  • Increase Borrow Kink from 90% to 95%(high)
  • Increase Annual Borrow Interest Rate Slope High from 0 to 0.567(high)
  • Decrease daily USDC COMP borrow rewards from 481.41 to 381.41 (~$22,800/day reduction)(medium)
  • Increase daily USDC COMP supply rewards from 0 to 100 (~$6,000/day addition)(medium)

Notable concerns

  • Changes only affect utilization rates above 90%, with minimal impact at utilization ≤95%
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02Description

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Gauntlet Recommendations: Ethereum Compound v3 USDC - Interest Rate Curve & Incentive Changes

Simple Summary

A proposal from Gauntlet to adjust 2 Interest Rate Curve parameters and 2 COMP reward distributions in Ethereum Compound v3 USDC.

Gauntlet recommends the following changes to the Ethereum v3 USDC IR curve:

  • Increase Borrow Kink from 90% to 95%
  • Increase Annual Borrow Interest Rate Slope High from 0 to 0.567

Gauntlet recommends the following changes to Ethereum v3 USDC rewards:

  • Decrease daily USDC COMP borrow rewards from 481.41 to 381.41 (~$22,800/day)
  • Increase daily USDC COMP supply rewards from 0 to 100 (~$6,000/day)

For more details, see the full forum post here.

Motivation

The proposed IR curve increases the Borrow Kink to 95% and re-introduces the positive Annual Borrow Interest Rate Slope High, at a milder level than was initially set when launching the comet. This change will eliminate reserve losses at high utilizations, and aims to increase liquidity for both USDC borrowers and suppliers.

This change will not affect borrow or supply APRs when utilization is ≤ 90%, and it will have minimal impact on borrow APR when the utilization rate is ≤ 95%.

Full proposal and forum discussion

Specification

The proposal updates the base tracking borrow and supply speeds, the borrow kink, and the borrow per year interest rate high slope by using the respective methods on the Configurator.

By approving this proposal, you agree that any services provided by Gauntlet shall be governed by the terms of service available at gauntlet.network/tos.

03Mismatch analysis

AIMismatch analysis by Kvorumclaude-sonnet-5
Consistent

I compared each of the four parameter changes described in the proposal against the decoded calldata. Borrow Kink (950000000000000000 = 95%) and Borrow Per Year Interest Rate Slope High (567000000000000000 = 0.567) exactly match the prose. For the reward speed changes, I checked the ratio of the raw uint64 speed values (borrow speed / supply speed ≈ 3.814) against the ratio of the claimed COMP/day amounts (381.41/100 = 3.814), which matches closely, confirming both speeds are correctly scaled representations of 381.41 and 100 COMP/day respectively. All four Configurator calls target the same USDC comet address (0xc3d688...4cdc3), consistent with the proposal's stated market. The fifth action, deployAndUpgradeTo, is the standard mechanism Compound v3 uses to push Configurator changes live via the CometProxyAdmin — this is routine bookkeeping for this contract type and is reasonably omitted from the plain-language description, as noted in the Specification's mention of 'the respective methods on the Configurator.' No value, target, or omitted/extra action discrepancies were found that a delegate would need to be warned about.

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04Actions

5 total
#0setBaseTrackingSupplySpeed(address,uint64)chain 0x1
Target
0x316f…36e3
Value
0 wei
Function
setBaseTrackingSupplySpeed(address,uint64)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0xc3d688B66703497DAA19211EEdff47f25384cdc3",
  "1": "1157407407407"
}
Calldata
#1setBaseTrackingBorrowSpeed(address,uint64)chain 0x1
Target
0x316f…36e3
Value
0 wei
Function
setBaseTrackingBorrowSpeed(address,uint64)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0xc3d688B66703497DAA19211EEdff47f25384cdc3",
  "1": "4414467592592"
}
Calldata
#2setBorrowKink(address,uint64)chain 0x1
Target
0x316f…36e3
Value
0 wei
Function
setBorrowKink(address,uint64)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0xc3d688B66703497DAA19211EEdff47f25384cdc3",
  "1": "950000000000000000"
}
Calldata
#3setBorrowPerYearInterestRateSlopeHigh(address,uint64)chain 0x1
Target
0x316f…36e3
Value
0 wei
Function
setBorrowPerYearInterestRateSlopeHigh(address,uint64)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0xc3d688B66703497DAA19211EEdff47f25384cdc3",
  "1": "567000000000000000"
}
Calldata
#4deployAndUpgradeTo(address,address)chain 0x1
Target
0x1ec6…8779
Value
0 wei
Function
deployAndUpgradeTo(address,address)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0x316f9708bB98af7dA9c68C1C3b5e79039cD336E3",
  "1": "0xc3d688B66703497DAA19211EEdff47f25384cdc3"
}
Calldata

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07Forum

AIForum synthesis by Kvorumclaude-haiku-4-5
sentiment · favorablethread · constructive

Arguments for

  • The proposed changes will eliminate reserve losses at high utilizations and increase liquidity for both USDC borrowers and suppliers.— Gauntlet
  • The hybrid IR curve approach balances the success of the current flat 4% curve in attracting TVL with protections against reserve depletion during high utilization periods.— Gauntlet
  • Reallocating 100 COMP daily rewards from borrowers to suppliers will further increase USDC supply liquidity without materially reducing borrow incentives.— Gauntlet
  • Current protocol metrics show all-time highs in both USDC supply ($276M) and borrows ($272M), demonstrating the effectiveness of the existing incentive structure.— Gauntlet
  • The proposed changes will have no impact on APRs when utilization is ≤90% and only minimal impact at ≤95%, making the adjustment low-risk.— Gauntlet

Arguments against

None surfaced.

Notable participants

  • GauntletProposer of the interest rate curve and incentive changes for Ethereum v3 USDC.
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