[Gauntlet] - USDC & USDT Risk Recommendations for Mainnet WETH & WBTC Comets

Simple Summary

If the community wishes to proceed with listing USDC and USDT as collateral on the Mainnet WETH and WBTC comets, Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameters:

Risk Parameters

Comet Collateral Supply Cap Collateral Factor (CF) Liquidation Factor (LF) Liquidation Penalty (LP)
Mainnet WETH USDC 20M 83% 88% 7%
Mainnet WETH USDT 20M 83% 88% 7%
Mainnet WBTC USDC 10M 80% 85% 10%
Mainnet WBTC USDT 10M 80% 85% 10%

Slippage

Mainnet WETH

USDC

USDT

Mainnet WBTC

USDC

USDT

Analysis

Supply Caps

Given the above slippage results, Gauntlet recommends setting supply caps on Mainnet WETH to 20M for both USDC and USDT. The ~2% slippage on both swaps falls well below the 7% liquidation penalty, ensuring sufficient incentive for liquidators.

Similarly, Gauntlet recommends setting supply caps on Mainnet WBTC to 10M for both USDC and USDT. The ~2% slippage on both swaps falls well below the 10% liquidation penalty.

CF/LF/LP

Mainnet WETH

Gauntlet recommends aligning CF, LF, and LP with those for WETH collateral on the Mainnet USDC and USDT comets.

Mainnet WBTC

Gauntlet recommends aligning CF, LF, and LP with those for WBTC collateral on the Mainnet USDC and USDT comets.

Next Steps

We welcome community feedback.

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Add USDC and USDT to the WETH market on Mainnet

PR - Add USDC and USDT to WETH market on Mainnet by MishaShWoof · Pull Request #1057 · compound-finance/comet · GitHub
PR(woof) - Add USDC and USDT to WETH market on Mainnet by MishaShWoof · Pull Request #254 · woof-software/comet · GitHub

Proposal - Tally | Compound | Add USDC and USDT as collaterals into cWETHv3 on Mainnet

Recommendations

The recommendations provided by Gauntlet

Name USDC
1 SupplyCap 50M(e6)
2 USDC token Decimals 6
3 USDC token Address 0xA0b86991c6218b36c1d19D4a2e9Eb0cE3606eB48
4 Collateral Factor 80%
5 Liquidation Factor 85%
6 Liquidation Penalty 5%
Name USDT
1 SupplyCap 50M(e6)
2 USDT token Decimals 6
3 USDT token Address 0xdAC17F958D2ee523a2206206994597C13D831ec7
4 Collateral Factor 80%
5 Liquidation Factor 85%
6 Liquidation Penalty 5%

Actions

Action name Link Status
1 Run Slither Link Success
2 Run Forge Tests Link Success
3 Run Tests With Gas Profiler Link Success
4 Run Semgremp Link Success
5 Run Scenarios (mainnet-weth) Link Success
6 Run Unit Tests Link Success
7 Run ESLint Link Success
8 Run Contact Linter Link Success
9 Run Prepare Link Success
10 Run Enact impersonate Link Success
11 Tenderly simulation (mainnet) Link Success
12 Run Enact (by delegator) Link Success

Artifacts

Name Value
1 Migration name 1762179749_add_usdc_and_usdt_collateral
2 Branch name woof-software/add-usdc-and-usdt-to-mainnet-weth
3 Prepare id 19431679451
4 Network mainnet
5 Deployment weth

Description

Add USDC and USDT as collaterals into cWETHv3 on Mainnet

Proposal summary

WOOF proposes to add USDC and USDT into cWETHv3 on Ethereum network. This proposal takes the governance steps recommended and necessary to update a Compound III WETH market on Ethereum. Simulations have confirmed the market’s readiness, as much as possible, using the Comet scenario suite. The new parameters include setting the risk parameters based on the recommendations from Gauntlet.

Further detailed information can be found on the corresponding proposal pull request and forum discussion.

Proposal Actions

The first action adds USDC asset as collateral with corresponding configurations.

The second action adds USDT asset as collateral with corresponding configurations.

The third action upgrades Comet to a new version.