[Gauntlet] WETH, weETH, USDC, and USDT Risk Recommendations for Mainnet wstETH

Simple Summary

Should the community choose to list WETH, weETH, USDC, and USDT on the Mainnet wstETH Comet, Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameters:

Risk Parameters

Comet Collateral Supply Cap Collateral Factor (CF) Liquidation Factor (LF) Liquidation Penalty (LP)
Mainnet wstETH WETH 100,000 90% 93% 4%
Mainnet wstETH weETH 10,000 90% 93% 4%
Mainnet wstETH USDC 10,000,000 80% 83% 10%
Mainnet wstETH USDT 15,000,000 80% 83% 10%

DEX Liquidity

Note: Additional liquidity can come from Lido’s wstETH/stETH redemption mechanism. Also, the below are a summary of the largest liquidity channels and are not exhaustive.

WETH

Pool Type Pool Name Pool URL TVL ($) 24H Volume ($)
Uniswap V3 wsETH / WETH wstETH/WETH - Wrapped liquid staked Ether 2.0 Price on Uniswap V3 with 0.01% Fee | GeckoTerminal 15.1M 9.6M
Balancer V2 wstETH / wstETH - WETH - BPT / WETH wstETH/WETH - Wrapped liquid staked Ether 2.0 Price on Balancer V2 (Ethereum) with 0.01% Fee | GeckoTerminal 29.5M 2.2M
Fluid wstETH / ETH Fluid 140.15M 9.0M

Total TVL: $184.75MM

weETH

Pool Type Pool Name Pool URL TVL ($) 24H Volume ($)
Uniswap V3 weETH / WETH 0.01% weETH/WETH - Wrapped eETH Price on Uniswap V3 with 0.01% Fee | GeckoTerminal 30.90M 37.84K
Curve weETH / WETH weETH/WETH - Wrapped eETH Price on Curve | GeckoTerminal 23.65M 5.7M
Balancer RZR / weETH 1% RZR/weETH - Rezerve.money Price on Balancer V3 (Ethereum) with 1% Fee | GeckoTerminal 2.39M 1.76K
Curve tETH / weETH tETH/weETH - Treehouse ETH Price on Curve | GeckoTerminal 897.82K 207.09K

Total TVL: $57.84MM

Slippage

WETH

weETH

USDC

USDT

Analysis

Supply Caps

Given the observed slippage, Gauntlet recommends the supply caps for WETH and weETH at 100,000 and 10,000 respectively. Liquidating the total supply caps would incur slippage under 1%, which is well below the 4% liquidation penalty. For USDC and USDT, we suggest 10,000,000 caps for each. These would see roughly 1% slippage. However, this is still much lower than the 10% liquidation penalty that we set.

CF/LF/LP

Gauntlet recommends aligning the CF, LF, and LP for WETH and weETH on the wstETH Comet to align with other correlated ETH derivative collaterals. The parameters for USDC and USDT are set more conservatively in-line with other stablecoin collaterals given the lack of correlation to wstETH.

Next Steps

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