[Gauntlet] Arbitrum v3 - Risk Recommendations (2024-04-15)
01Summary
Gauntlet recommends risk parameter updates for Arbitrum v3 USDC Native and USDC.e Comets to increase capital efficiency and mitigate risk. Changes include increasing supply caps, liquidation factors, collateral factors, and liquidation penalties for GMX and WBTC across both markets.
- Type
- parameter change
Key changes
- GMX Supply Cap increased from 100,000 to 120,000 on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- GMX Liquidation Factor increased from 60% to 75% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- GMX Collateral Factor increased from 50% to 60% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- GMX Liquidation Penalty increased from 7% to 15% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- WBTC Liquidation Factor increased from 77% to 85% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- WBTC Collateral Factor increased from 70% to 75% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- WBTC Liquidation Penalty increased from 5% to 8% on USDC Native Comet(medium)
- WBTC Liquidation Penalty increased from 5% to 8% on USDC.e Comet(medium)
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02Description
[Gauntlet] Arbitrum v3 - Risk Recommendations (2024-04-15)
Simple Summary
Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameter updates for the Arbitrum v3 USDC Native comet:
- Increase GMX Supply Cap from 100,000 to 120,000
- Increase GMX Liquidation Factor from 60% to 75%
- Increase GMX Collateral Factor from 50% to 60%
- Increase GMX Liquidation Penalty from 7% to 15%
- Increase WBTC Liquidation Factor from 77% to 85%
- Increase WBTC Collateral Factor from 70% to 75%
- Increase WBTC Liquidation Penalty from 5% to 8%
Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameter updates for the Arbitrum v3 USDC.e Comet:
- Increase WBTC Liquidation Penalty from 5% to 8%
- Increase GMX Liquidation Penalty from 7% to 15%
For more details, see the full forum post here.
Motivation
Gauntlet recommends parameter updates for the Collateral Factor, Liquidation Factor, Supply Cap, and Liquidation Penalty across two Comets to mitigate risk and increase capital efficiency.
Full proposal and forum discussion
Specification
This proposal updates the relevant parameters in the Arbitrum v3 USDC Native and Arbitrum v3 USDC.e
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 uses Compound's standard cross-chain governance pattern: a single L1 action (createRetryableTicket) that bridges a batched configuration update to Arbitrum via the L1->L2 messaging inbox. Rather than one action per parameter, all the described GMX and WBTC parameter changes for both the USDC Native and USDC.e Comets are packed into the bytes payload of this single ticket. Inspecting the embedded ASCII strings inside that payload reveals the expected set of function signatures — updateAssetSupplyCap, updateAssetLiquidationFactor, updateAssetBorrowCollateralFactor, and updateAssetLiquidateCollateralFactor — appearing in counts consistent with the number of parameter changes listed in the description (7 for USDC Native, 2 for USDC.e), plus two deployAndUpgradeTo calls which are the routine mechanism Compound uses to apply a Comet configuration update and are not something a description would normally call out separately. I could not fully decode the packed uint64/uint128 argument values from the raw hex to verify each percentage numerically, so I cannot independently confirm each individual percentage/cap figure matches exactly, which keeps my confidence at medium rather than high. However, the structure, targets, and function set line up closely with what the description claims, with no evidence of extra unrelated actions, missing named actions, or target mismatches. I therefore assess this as consistent, with no material discrepancies to flag.
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04Actions
- Target
- 0x4dbd…ab3f
- Value
- 7358327000000000 wei
- Function
- createRetryableTicket(address,uint256,uint256,address,address,uint256,uint256,bytes)
- Arguments
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}- Calldata
05Tally
Summed from votes
06Voters
No votes recorded yet.
07Forum
- Arbitrum v3 - Risk Recommendations (04/09/2024) ↗discourse · high confidence
Arguments for
- Increasing GMX and WBTC parameters enhances capital efficiency while mitigating insolvency risk through higher liquidation penalties that enable faster liquidation of large positions.— Gauntlet
- The large GMX position (92% of supply cap, ~$3.8M) demonstrates demand for increased supply cap, and higher liquidation penalties ensure the protocol can liquidate this position if undercollateralized while increasing protocol USDC demand.— Gauntlet
- Arbitrum's significantly higher liquidity compared to Polygon makes increasing WBTC liquidation parameters safer, as liquidating WBTC is less risky in this ecosystem.— Gauntlet
Arguments against
None surfaced.
Notable participants
- GauntletRisk parameter analyst who authored the proposal recommending increases to GMX and WBTC parameters for Arbitrum v3 comets.
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