[Gauntlet] Arbitrum v3 USDC Native - Risk Recommendations (2023-10-16)
01Summary
Gauntlet proposes increasing the WBTC supply cap in Arbitrum v3 USDC Native comet from 300 to 600 tokens, reducing utilization from 100% to 50% and enabling $8.02M additional WBTC to be supplied for protocol growth.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- Increase WBTC supply cap from 300 tokens to 600 tokens in Arbitrum v3 USDC Native comet(high)
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02Description
[Gauntlet] Arbitrum v3 USDC Native - Risk Recommendations (2023-10-16)
Simple Summary
A proposal from Gauntlet to adjust one risk parameter in the Arbitrum v3 USDC Native comet.
Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameter change:
- Increase WBTC supply cap from 300 tokens to 600 tokens
For more details, see the full forum post here.
Motivation
Supply cap for WBTC has recently reached 100%. This change will decrease WBTC supply cap utilization from 100% to 50%, resulting in $8.02M additional WBTC able to be supplied, to allow further long-term protocol usage and growth.
Full proposal and forum discussion
Specification
This proposal updates the supply cap in the Arbitrum v3 USDC Native comet through the updateAssetSupplyCap method in the Configurator contract.
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
The proposal describes a single, simple change: raising the WBTC supply cap on the Arbitrum USDC Native Comet from 300 to 600 tokens via the Configurator's updateAssetSupplyCap function. The decoded calldata contains one action: an L1 createRetryableTicket call, which is the standard Arbitrum L1->L2 bridging mechanism Compound uses for cross-chain governance. Decoding the embedded payload reveals it calls updateAssetSupplyCap(comet, asset, 60000000000) — since WBTC uses 8 decimals, 60,000,000,000 = 600 WBTC, exactly matching the stated new cap — followed by the routine deployAndUpgradeTo call that applies the configuration change to the live Comet proxy. This deploy/upgrade step is standard boilerplate for any Compound V3 configurator parameter update and is reasonably omitted from the plain-language description. No value mismatches, target mismatches, or hidden actions were found; the addresses referenced (comet, configurator, asset) are consistent with a single targeted parameter change on the Arbitrum USDC Native market. Overall the description accurately and completely reflects what the calldata executes.'
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x4dbd…ab3f
- Value
- 2977368000000000 wei
- Function
- createRetryableTicket(address,uint256,uint256,address,address,uint256,uint256,bytes)
- Arguments
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05Tally
Summed from votes
06Voters
No votes recorded yet.
07Forum
- [Gauntlet] Arbitrum Native USDC - Risk Recommendations (10/12/23) ↗discourse · high confidence
Arguments for
- WBTC supply cap has reached 100% utilization, indicating strong demand that the protocol should accommodate by doubling the cap to 600 tokens.— Gauntlet
- Increasing the WBTC supply cap from 300 to 600 tokens will improve protocol growth and usage by providing an additional $8.02M of borrowing capacity.— Gauntlet
- Arbitrum has sufficient WBTC DEX liquidity and BTC's high liquidity and low volatility support a higher supply cap without undue risk.— Gauntlet
Arguments against
None surfaced.
Notable participants
- GauntletRisk management firm proposing the WBTC supply cap increase with supporting data and analysis.
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