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compoundSource: Compound governor bravo · #74

Risk Parameter Updates for WBTC, BAT, and LINK

executedDec 17, 2021, 05:18 AM UTCby680x683a…6c02

01Summary

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Proposal to adjust collateral factors for three Compound assets (WBTC, BAT, and LINK) to align with the community-chosen Moderate risk level. Updates include: WBTC collateral factor to 65%, BAT to 70%, and LINK to 70%. These changes aim to balance protocol risk while increasing borrow usage and long-term reserves.

Type
parameter change

Key changes

  • WBTC collateral factor adjusted to 65% (0.65)(high)
  • BAT collateral factor adjusted to 70% (0.70)(high)
  • LINK collateral factor adjusted to 70% (0.70)(high)
  • Risk parameters updated to align with Moderate risk level consensus(medium)

Notable concerns

  • Value at Risk (VaR) has increased considerably to over $1B due to increased market volatility and lower collateralization ratios
  • These parameter updates will slightly increase VaR despite aiming to manage risk
  • Market conditions have changed since original risk level consensus, requiring adjusted parameters
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02Description

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Risk Parameter Updates for WBTC, BAT, and LINK

Simple Summary

A proposal to adjust three (3) total parameters across three (3) Compound assets.

Background

This proposal is a batch update of risk parameters to align with the Moderate risk level chosen by the Compound community. These parameter updates are the fifth of Gauntlet's regular parameter recommendations as part of Dynamic Risk Parameters.

Full proposal and forum discussion

Motivation and Specification

This set of parameter updates seeks to level set assets to a Moderate risk level of the protocol while making risk trade-offs between specific assets. Note that some are different from the original risk level consensus check as market conditions have changed.

Dashboard

Gauntlet has launched the Compound Risk Dashboard. The community should use the Dashboard to better understand the updated parameter suggestions and general market risk in Compound.

As shown below, VaR has increased considerably since our last recommendations, up to over $1B. This is mostly due to increased market volatility and lower collateralization ratios amongst the top borrowers. We note however that all the VaR is projected to be liquidations that can be safely absorbed by the market. This new set of parameter updates will slightly increase VaR, but meaningfully increase borrow usage and long-term reserves.

03Mismatch analysis

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04Actions

3 total
#0_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)chain 0x1
Target
0x3d98…cd3b
Value
0 wei
Function
_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)
Arguments
{
  "0": "0x6C8c6b02E7b2BE14d4fA6022Dfd6d75921D90E4E",
  "1": "650000000000000000"
}
Calldata
#1_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)chain 0x1
Target
0x3d98…cd3b
Value
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Function
_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)
Arguments
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  "0": "0xFAce851a4921ce59e912d19329929CE6da6EB0c7",
  "1": "700000000000000000"
}
Calldata
#2_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)chain 0x1
Target
0x3d98…cd3b
Value
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Function
_setCollateralFactor(address,uint256)
Arguments
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  "0": "0xccF4429DB6322D5C611ee964527D42E5d685DD6a",
  "1": "700000000000000000"
}
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05Tally

Summed from votes

Voters16
VP participating907.2K
Outcome (current)For
Current support100%

06Voters

16 total

No votes recorded yet.

07Forum

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sentiment · mixedthread · constructive

Arguments for

  • Parameter updates align with the community-chosen Moderate risk level and respond to changing market conditions with improved capital efficiency.— pauljlei
  • The updates will increase borrow usage and long-term reserves by $286K while keeping projected Value at Risk safely absorbable by the market.— pauljlei
  • BAT volatility has decreased significantly (40 percentage points) since the earlier reduction, making a return to 65% collateral factor justified.— pauljlei

Arguments against

  • Adjusting BAT from 65% to 60% and back to 65% sets a poor precedent by immediately reversing an uncomfortable downward adjustment without clear justification.— getty
  • Frequent parameter changes create user uncertainty and instability, reducing attractiveness of the protocol compared to fixed-rate alternatives.— miscao

Unresolved concerns

  • Whether frequent parameter adjustments should be batched quarterly rather than proposed individually to reduce user friction.— miscao
  • Whether WBTC Legacy and WBTC New collateral factor updates should be coupled going forward to avoid divergence.— rleshner

Notable participants

  • pauljleiProposal author from Gauntlet providing technical rationale and responding to community concerns about parameter changes.
  • rleshnerCommunity member raising concerns about separate WBTC token handling and advocating for deprecation of legacy version.
  • gettyCommunity member expressing skepticism about BAT parameter reversal and threatening to vote against the proposal.
  • miscaoCommunity member questioning the rationale for BAT adjustments and advocating for less frequent parameter changes.
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