[Proposal] Provide NMR lending liquidity on Kashi

Got it, key excerpt for anyone interested “If the utilization goes above the maximum target utilization, the interest rate doubles every eight hours. At 100%, utilization it doubles every 8 hours. At 90% it’s much slower, and at 80% it’s stable.”.

Since utilization is at 100%, presumably the interest rate will rapidly increase.

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That’s why USDC is a logical choice; as long as it keeps its peg of 1:1 your position is not at risk of defaulting.

Is this accurate? I thought liquidation was based on the value of the borrowed token vs the value of your collateral. So if NMR price goes up too much, your collateral would not longer be cover your debt, so you would get liquidated with penalty. (but also your NMR that you now have would be worth more than it was before as well, so it’s not so bad except for the liquidation penalty).

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I like the proposal and I think it would be a good idea to add liquidity to Sushi if Aave is going to take a long time.

I do think we would need to add some conditions to the proposal for how/why/when the Council would remove liquidity. If no one is borrowing and the NMR could be used for a more interesting proposal, can the Council remove at any time? Should another proposal be made to remove the liquidity, same as adding it? Should it be moved to Aave once lending is available there instead? Those would be interesting to add.

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You are right, this is indeed the case. The reason I didn’t notice this is because the “limit used %” in the UI is based on the last known oracle price to the contract. Since it doesn’t update by itself (you have to force it and include it in an on-chain tx), that value remained static for me.

Anyway I’ll amend the opening post with correct liquidation info.

Sure. Let’s say the initial deposit is for a period of a year. Six months after this deposit, council decides whether they should (1) reduce their position when possible, with the goal of closing their position by the end of 12 month period, (2) increase their position—either at a regular interval or all at once, or (3) keep their position as is.

Of course any of this can be overruled at any time with a new proposal which passes.

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I like the proposal, specially as it would generate extra source of yield for the treasury. It would be interesting to define clear conditions about ‘the program’ as my main concern is the recall risk.

We probably shouldn’t wait around for an aave market. Aave is considered to be safer and more established, so it would probably be the best choice, but it may be a while. Kashi seems like a good option for now.

How much should we be allocating? There are 289 NMR in treasury and some other proposals to fund soon too. Like 150 NMR?

What are the risks for the lender?

We are sort of discussing general questions and other SushiSwap topics on the rocketchat if the group is interested in the information to possibly add to proposal Numerai Community

Also I created a #SushiSwap-Kashi channel to the rocketchat if anyone is interested

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Mainly just smart contract risk I guess, any bugs in the lending pool could mean total loss of funds

Thanks. I think there might also be a risk if NMR price goes up a lot quickly and the lender doesn’t liquidate in time, based on the discussions in chat.

Is this enough to be material for any meaningful objective? Seems like one participant could get borrow it all and get all the benefit.

I agree. To be honest I was talking about Numerai’s treasury itself. Ballpark I’d say if only 10% of current classic stakers (~500k NMR) would be interested in borrowing, Kashi pool would need to be ~50k NMR. That’s not yet taking into consideration Signals and/or the chance of that 10% being a low estimate.

From what I can gather, treasury (0x1248C66Bb94607Cf6b80D3AEc3E62A9FE421e210, 0x0000000000377D181A0ebd08590c6B399b272000 and 0x67b18F10C0Ff8C76e28a383B404E8e6FDEfe2050) currently holds ~5m NMR.

Another approach would be to promote it and let the community source it. We’ve basically been seeing this already; the pool quadrupled to ~3k NMR (!) since posting this proposal.

Increasing liquidity does not only enable more users to make use of it, but it should also stabilise the interest rate which I think is just as important.

Existing pricing model used by defi has some fundamental defects, and could be easily attacked with help from flashloan. Unless the liquid is large enough, the price could be easily manipulated and liquidity provider will suffer the lose.

What do you mean by “the pricing model used by defi”? Are you talking about the Chainlink oracle? I don’t see how that can be attacked with a flashloan?

CoE executed a transaction lending 200 NMR to the Kashi pool https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdb67dd0418553ddf64bb79da14e4457ed1b855eb3fc627cc295423f3b79632d4

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Awesome!!! Happy farming :slight_smile: :man_farmer:

And great news for anyone wanting to borrow of course!

I’m not too familiar with how to use etherscan to well. Did you just look up the CoE wallet? Does anyone also happen to know the address of the Erasure contracts and how to see things like burns and adds to people’s stakes on etherscan?
Thanks

I want to borrow 5000 NMR for a year (at least for six months) and at the end of period return the same amount (5000) of NMR.
I would like to pay a fixed and known amount of interest, based on initial price (155K USD aprox).
Which should be this interest rate? 10%? 20%?
Where can I do this kind of transaction?
Sorry if some of this is trivial but I never worked with these platforms.

Added:
Should the interest be paid in NMR or USD?