[Urgent Executive] ETH-A, USDC-A and PSM-USDC-A DC increase

[SebVentures]

As @Primoz is not present and the situation is urgent (USDC-A and ETH-A have both reached the debt ceiling), @LongForWisdom asked me to propose a solution.

Urgency

The urgency of this proposal is based on the following elements:

• The peg is currently fixed and failure to keep it in line would be detrimental to Maker reputation and MKR holder interests.
• The community seems unlikely to want the peg to be arbitraged using TUSD-A.
• We are missing a business opportunity by artificially limiting revenue generation

Executive Proposal

• ETH-A +150M: following the interim result of the community poll. This isn’t an unusual increase for ETH-A.
• USDC-A +70M: Also not an unusual increase for USDC-A.
• PSM-USDC-A +27M (DC increased to 30M): From a risk perspective using PSM-USDC-A is less risky than USDC-A (it provides a better peg and avoid dealing with the liquidation issue). Governance already agreed to a 500M DC for PSM-USDC-A.

The Smart Contracts Domain delegated to @hexonaut, who agreed with these changes.

[Jiecut]

Do we need a Yes/No/Abstain poll for urgent action to be taken?

[SebVentures]

This is not a signal request. It goes straight to executive using @LongForWisdom governance facilitator prerogatives.

[Davidutro]

Is there any desire to include a decrease of the TUSD Debt Ceiling, given your second point?

[SebVentures]

It seems to be the community wish according to the recent poll. Nevertheless, this issue is there for some time now and there is no reason to address that directly. The USDC DC increase will put us in the same situation as before the ETH price rise. For TUSD-A, the usual process will take place.

[Andy_McCall]

@SebVentures

From a risk perspective using PSM-USDC-A is less risky than USDC-A (it provides a better peg and avoid dealing with the liquidation issue). Governance already agreed to a 500M DC for PSM-USDC-A.

If this is true why are we increasing both?

[iammeeoh]

@SebVentures

PSM-USDC-A +27M (DC increased to 30M): From a risk perspective using PSM-USDC-A is less risky than USDC-A (it provides a better peg and avoid dealing with the liquidation issue). Governance already agreed to a 500M DC for PSM-USDC-A.

Ok but why 30M if Governance agreed with 500M ?
What about something in between like 100/150M?
I feel like 30M will be consumed very quickly.

[SebVentures]

@Andy_McCall

If this is true why are we increasing both?

@iammeeoh

Ok but why 30M if Governance agreed with 500M ?

Two reasons:

• @Primoz is the only risk mandated actor currently and he decided to propose only 3M. While we have a bit of evidence that the PSM work, it’s still new and started to be used a few days ago (yesterday?). After discussion with @hexonaut we decided to propose 30M to find a balance between the benefits of the PSM and any PSM risk.
• What really matters for an urgent executive is to pass (quickly). A failed executive is useless at solving the underlying issues. We don’t have evidence that the PSM executive was easy to pass (it has barely the hat currently).

[Jiecut]

@Davidutro

MIP24c4: Urgent Response Procedure

An urgent response may be requested by any community member if they believe the system is experiencing an emergency or urgent situation as defined in MIP24c1.

The urgent response process will be initiated as follows:

The process will be initiated with a signal request thread in the public forum stating the need for expedited governance action and include the following:

• Sufficient detail regarding the issue.
• Proposed action or request to discuss what action governance should take.
• Signal Poll to gauge community sentiment of whether urgent action is needed.
• Tag @Gov-Facilitators at the bottom of the post, so that they will be notified and oversee discussion.

This is from MIP24 regarding the Urgent Response Procedure though there may be something newer.

[swakya]

It will probably be consumed quickly but there’s a feeling that a vote for going immediately too 500M would be less likely to pass. It also makes sense from a risk perspective to only gradually increase the bounty associated with a possible security flaw in the PSM (highly unlikely but we’re trying to straddle the line between moving fast and being safe).

[LongForWisdom]

@Jiecut

Do we need a Yes/No/Abstain poll for urgent action to be taken?
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This is from MIP24 regarding the Urgent Response Procedure though there may be something newer.

So MIP24 represents the path that the community can take to propose an urgent response to something. Additionally, we’ve empowered the mandated actors to also push urgent proposals in the event that they believe there is a clear need for them (such as us hitting the ceilings today.)

@iammeeoh

Ok but why 30M if Governance agreed with 500M ?
What about something in between like 100/150M?
I feel like 30M will be consumed very quickly.

Yes this is fair. 30M was chosen as a compromise between those that want to see it increased rapidly, and those that are still concerned about the new code.

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I appreciate that some people are unhappy about the proposal, or the process it went through. The best answer I can really give to that is that if we’d done otherwise, or delayed for 24 hours to have a poll then a different set of people would be unhappy about a different set of parameters or that we weren’t reacting quickly to the market environment.

I really think this sort of process represents the best of both worlds. We have mandated actors that are empowered to create proposals quickly in the event that an urgent change is deemed to be of interest to governance. Additionally, governance can trigger an urgent response through the process laid out in MIP24. In times where there is no urgency, governance is able to fine-tune the contents of executives via off-chain and on-chain polls and the mandated actors don’t propose things unilaterally.

In this case the PSM complicates matters because the Maker Foundation can’t touch it. Primoz and Wil being unavailable also complicated things. However in the absence of those people, Sam and Seb are the closest we have to Smart Contracts and Risk domain actors.

[Jiecut]

@LongForWisdom

So MIP24 represents the path that the community can take to propose an urgent response to something. Additionally, we’ve empowered the mandated actors to also push urgent proposals in the event that they believe there is a clear need for them (such as us hitting the ceilings today.)

I see, raising ceilings does make sense.

[equivrel]

All three measures seem reasonable given the circumstances. I think lifting USDC-PSM DC to 30MM is also reasonable in light of the discussions of the past few weeks. Even though this amount won’t play a key role in helping supply, it allows us to further battle test the PSM as we prepare to increase its DC further.

[SebVentures]

The executive vote is now live.

[hongbiao_li]

I really hope to use IAM to solve the problem of DC increase, it will be more efficient.

[Derek98]

What a joke! Look at ETH-B pls!

[Signal Request] Adjust ETH-B Debt Ceiling

Most importantly, use more algorithms but not human beings’ meetings/discussions to manage vaults. There’re more and more automatic vault management tools and they need fast solution when ETH’s price drops or increases pretty fast. You definitely know how blockchain market is sophisticated today. Marking it yellow or red is a common way to help users to make a better choice, as we all know. Though there’re always some guys don’t care about it and nobody should care about them too much as well. …

[ultraschuppi]

exec got scheduled, will be executed tomorrow. thanks @SebVentures and @hexonaut and everybody else involved

[chonghe]

Hi all, wondering why the GSM delay is still 48 hours? I understand that the recent upgrade to v1.2 solved the flash loan voting problem, is it possible then that the GSM delay was further decreased to like 24/12 hours just like in the past? This will be useful to execute urgent proposals like DC increase to generate more DAI

[GriffGreen]

So the current timing is that it gets executed in the next 12ish hours and then will take another 48 hours after that before it is applied… correct?