[Gauntlet] Compound v2 Deprecation (Phase 5) (11/29/23)

Simple Summary

For Phase 5 of the Compound v2 deprecation, Gauntlet recommends decreasing CFs for lowly supplied (< $5M TVL) altcoins.

  • Decrease AAVE Collateral Factor from 58% to 53%
  • Decrease COMP Collateral Factor from 45% to 40%
  • Decrease LINK Collateral Factor from 64% to 59%
  • Decrease MKR Collateral Factor from 58% to 53%
  • Decrease SUSHI Collateral Factor from 52% to 47%
  • Decrease YFI Collateral Factor from 60% to 55%
  • Decrease ZRX Collateral Factor from 50% to 45%

Analysis

Risk-off Liquidations

The recommended Collateral Factor decreases would not currently cause new liquidatable user positions.

Relevant Users with Low Health Factors

When determining what user positions will be most affected by the recommended Collateral Factor decreases, we assess the following:

  1. Size of the position
  2. Health Factor of the position
  3. How much the position’s Health Factor will change due to the Collateral Factor changes

1) Size of the position

We only include positions that have > $5k borrows.

2) Health Factor of the position

We only include positions whose Health Factors are less than 1.17 (Borrow Usage greater than 85%) after the Collateral Factor decreases.

3) How much the position’s Health Factor will change due to the Collateral Factor changes

We only show accounts that become > 5% closer to becoming liquidatable due to the Collateral Factor decreases. For example, a user may have a position with a Health Factor of 1.1, with 99% of their supply in ETH and 1% in COMP. In this case, leaving ETH Collateral Factor unchanged and decreasing COMP CF by 5% will not significantly impact this user’s Health Factor. As a result, we will not show these types of positions.

The below figure shows the top 4 highest borrowing user positions whose Health Factors are less than 1.17 (Borrow Usage greater than 85%) and become > 5% closer to becoming liquidatable after the Collateral Factor decreases.

The table below shows all positions > $5k borrows whose Health Factors are less than 1.17 (Borrow Usage greater than 85%) and become > 5% closer to becoming liquidatable after the Collateral Factor decreases.

User Address Total Supply Balance (USD) Total Borrow Balance (USD) Initial Borrow Usage New Borrow Usage Initial Health Factor New Health Factor % Closer to Liquidation
0xc6a58d687d67eda6451a2f55da49104c8326497d $123.8k $89.9k 91.26% 91.98% 1.096 1.087 8.24%
0x8e445422baa49c7b98645e918577de7d48280384 $47.3k $31.8k 93.12% 95.51% 1.074 1.047 34.74%
0xc7f8689d426975ed7f97f304e512f54c0fde8d02 $42.6k $29.1k 94.6% 97.25% 1.057 1.028 49.07%
0x87279585d52f534a2d2e453518cd7890c5762d19 $16.2k $11.7k 91.76% 92.37% 1.09 1.083 7.4%

In total, these positions have $162k borrows.

We will continue to rerun these liquidation analyses and update the community if the Collateral Factor decreases cause any risk-off liquidations and/or relevant Health Factor decreases.

Next Steps

  • Target on-chain vote 12/4/23

We posted the on-chain proposal for phase 5 of the v2 deprecation here. Voting begins in 1 day and lasts for 3 days.

The proposal has passed and been executed. We thank the community for their participation.