[MRC-124] USDT.kava Deposit Cap Decrease

Summary

This proposal aims to decrease the USDT.kava deposit cap from 1.3M to 600k USDT.kava on the Osmosis outpost of the Red Bank.

Motivation

USDT.kava liquidity has significantly decreased on Osmosis: there’s currently ~600k liquidity on Osmosis pools (excluding alloyed pools) which implies a reduction in the cap to keep the exposure within the limits as per Deposit Caps Risk Framework.

The current deposit cap for USDT.kava token is ~40% filled, therefore, with the new cap there will still be a small buffer for new deposits. We will monitor the situation and revise the caps if necessary.

Risks

Capping exposure for a given asset allows Mars to reduce risk associated with the lack of liquidity (inability to liquidate collateral in a timely manner with reasonable slippage), asset price manipulation, extreme price volatility, and abnormally high swapping fees, among others. These issues could be detrimental to Red Bank in terms of insolvencies and liquidations.

Deposit Caps Risk Framework is developed to manage those risks. We ensure that the caps do not exceed the maximum allowable caps as per the framework.

Implementation

This is a signaling proposal, not an executable proposal.

Copyright

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Disclaimers/Disclosures

This proposal is being made by Mars Protocol Foundation, a Cayman Islands foundation company. Mars Protocol Foundation engages in research and development of the Mars Protocol. Mars Protocol Foundation and certain of its service providers and managers own MARS tokens and have financial interests related to this proposal. The aforementioned persons or their affiliates may also have financial interests in complementary or competing projects or ecosystems, entities or tokens, including USDT.kava and Osmosis. These statements are intended to disclose relevant facts and to help identify potential conflicts of interest, and should not be misconstrued as a complete description of all relevant interests or conflicts of interests; nor should they be construed as a recommendation to purchase or acquire any token or security.

This proposal is also subject to and qualified by the Mars Disclaimers/Disclosures. Mars Protocol Foundation may lack access to all relevant facts or may have failed to give appropriate weighting to available facts. Mars Protocol Foundation is not making any representation, warranty or guarantee regarding the accuracy or completeness of the statements herein, and Mars Protocol Foundation shall have no liability in the event of losses or damages ensuing from approval or rejection or other handling of the proposal. Each user and voter should undertake their own research and make their own independent interpretation and analysis of all relevant facts and issues to arrive at their own personal determinations of how to vote on the proposal.

I agree that liquidity is reduced and poorly placed right now, so this is probably a good move.

However, I wanted to raise an issue with the line:

~600k liquidity on Osmosis pools (excluding alloyed pools)

Sales of USDT.kava will flow into all USDT and utilize this liquidity—up to the point where adding new USDT.kava hits the static cap of 75%.

If Mars continues to use variants within alloys rather than the alloys themselves, then some method of taking this liquidity into account for caps will need to be included in the calculations. Otherwise, usable liquidity will fall over time for USDT, BTC, and other non-IBC-native assets, and the caps for variants will have to shrink rapidly leading to a lack of new deposits on Mars.