[Gauntlet] 2023-11-27: Arbitrum Native USDC - Risk Recommendations
01Summary
Gauntlet proposes to double the supply caps for ARB (from 4M to 8M tokens) and WBTC (from 600 to 1,200 tokens) in the Arbitrum Native USDC market to reduce utilization from 100%/92% to 50%/46% respectively, enabling further protocol growth.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- Increase ARB Supply Cap from 4M tokens ($4.10M) to 8M tokens ($8.20M)(medium)
- Increase WBTC Supply Cap from 600 tokens ($22.30M) to 1,200 tokens ($44.60M)(medium)
- Decrease ARB supply cap utilization from 100% to 50%(medium)
- Decrease WBTC supply cap utilization from 92% to 46%(medium)
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02Description
[Gauntlet] 2023-11-27: Arbitrum Native USDC - Risk Recommendations
Simple Summary
A proposal from Gauntlet to adjust two risk parameters in the Arbitrum Native USDC comet.
Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameter changes:
- Increase ARB Supply Cap from 4M tokens ($4.10M) to 8M tokens ($8.20M)
- Increase WBTC Supply Cap from 600 tokens ($22.30M) to 1,200 tokens ($44.60M)
For more details, see the full forum post here.
Motivation
These changes will decrease WBTC supply cap utilization from 92% to 46% and decrease ARB supply cap utilization from 100% to 50%, to allow further long-term protocol usage and growth.
Full proposal and forum discussion
Specification
This proposal updates supply cap on V3 Arbitrum USDC Native market through updateAssetSupplyCap in 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
The proposal is a single cross-chain governance action (createRetryableTicket) that bridges a multicall to the Arbitrum Configurator. Decoding the nested calldata reveals three inner calls: two updateAssetSupplyCap calls and one deployAndUpgradeTo call. The two updateAssetSupplyCap calls set the ARB supply cap to 8,000,000e18 (8M tokens, 18 decimals) and the WBTC supply cap to 1,200e8 (1,200 tokens, 8 decimals), which exactly match the description's stated new caps of 8M ARB and 1,200 WBTC. The deployAndUpgradeTo call is the standard, routine step required to push Configurator changes onto the live Comet proxy and is boilerplate for this contract type, consistent with the 'ignore routine bookkeeping' guidance. The outer target (Arbitrum Inbox/retryable ticket mechanism) and the small ETH value are standard cross-chain messaging plumbing, not a separate substantive action, and do not contradict the description's claim that this updates supply caps via the Configurator's updateAssetSupplyCap function. No value, target, or recipient mismatches were found, and no significant omitted or extra actions were identified. Confidence is high because the embedded ABI-encoded call data could be decoded precisely enough to verify both numeric values and target addresses against the prose.
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x4dbd…ab3f
- Value
- 4997138000000000 wei
- Function
- createRetryableTicket(address,uint256,uint256,address,address,uint256,uint256,bytes)
- Arguments
{ "0": "0x42480C37B249e33aABaf4c22B20235656bd38068", "1": "0", "2": "1816010000000000", "3": "0x3fB4d38ea7EC20D91917c09591490Eeda38Cf88A", "4": "0x3fB4d38ea7EC20D91917c09591490Eeda38Cf88A", "5": "6362256", "6": "500000000", "7": "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" }- Calldata
05Tally
Summed from votes
06Voters
| Voter | Choice | % of total | Rationale | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EA0xea6c…3bf7 | For | 331K | 59.01% | — | 3y ago |
| B90xb933…8dd1 | For | 53.9K | 9.62% | — | 3y ago |
| B40xb49f…7948 | For | 50K | 8.92% | — | 3y ago |
| 070x0703…961b | For | 50K | 8.92% | — | 3y ago |
| 130x13bd…8548 | For | 50K | 8.92% | — | 3y ago |
| 3F0x3fb1…4c8a | For | 25.6K | 4.56% | — | 3y ago |
| 660x66cd…65f9 | For | 368.6 | 0.07% | — | 3y ago |
| 6F0x6f9b…8a1d | For | 42.8 | 0.01% | — | 3y ago |
| E40xe459…e666 | For | 0.7 | 0.00% | — | 3y ago |
07Forum
- [Gauntlet] Arbitrum Native USDC - Risk Recommendations (11/22/23) ↗discourse · high confidence
Arguments for
- High supply cap utilization (92% for WBTC, 100% for ARB) indicates strong demand that the proposed increases would accommodate for protocol growth.— Gauntlet
- WBTC and ARB have sufficient DEX liquidity on Arbitrum and (for BTC) low volatility, supporting the risk profile of higher supply caps.— Gauntlet
- The proposed caps would reduce utilization to healthier levels (46% for WBTC, 50% for ARB), allowing further long-term protocol usage without hitting constraints.— Gauntlet
Arguments against
None surfaced.
Notable participants
- GauntletRisk management firm that authored the proposal with detailed supply cap analysis and recommendations.
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