Liquidation
A user can be liquidated when their borrow value has exceeded their max borrow.
Borrowed and Max Borrow are dollarized amounts representing how much value a user has borrowed, and their maximum allowable borrow, respectively.
Borrow Utilization = Borrowed ($) / Max Borrow ($)
A user's Borrowed is calculated by summing Borrowed Amount * Price over their borrowed assets.
A user's Max Borrow is calculated by summing Collateral Amount * Price * Collateral Factor over their collateral assets. Collateral factors represent what percentage of assets a user can borrow against their collateral.
A user can only be liquidated when their Borrow Utilization exceeds 100%.
User with Borrow Utilization near 100%, they will soon be at risk of liquidation.
A user liquidates (the "liquidator") another user (the "liquidatee") by repaying up to 50% of the liquidatee's borrow and seizing their collateral at a discount. To give an example, let's say a user supplied 30 algos and borrowed 20 USDC.
Asset | Collateral Factor | Liquidation Incentive |
|---|---|---|
USDC | 80% | 7.5% |
ALGO | 50% | 7.5% |
Asset | Price |
|---|---|
USDC | 1.00 |
ALGO | 1.75 |
Asset | Supply | Borrow |
|---|---|---|
USDC | 0 | 20 |
ALGO | 30 | 0 |
The liquidatee's initial Borrowed = 20 * $1.00 = $20 and initial Max Borrow = 30* $1.75 * 0.50 = $26.25, therefore initial Borrow Utilization = $20 / $26.25 = 76.2%.
Now, suppose the asset prices change as tabulated below.
Asset | Price |
|---|---|
USDC | 1.00 |
ALGO | 1.30 |
As the price of ALGO decreases to $1.30, the user's Max Borrow falls to 30 * $1.30 * 0.50 = $19.5, and the Borrow Utilization rises to 102%, which means the user can now be liquidated.
A liquidator identifies this and calls liquidate on the liquidatee via the Algofi smart contracts. The liquidator is allowed to repay up to 50% of the liquidatee's USDC Borrow.
In exchange for repayment, the liquidator seizes a fraction of the liquidatee's ALGO collateral at a discount. If the liquidator repays a full 50% of the 20 USDC Borrow, 10 USDC tokens, then the liquidator seizes $10 * (1 + Liquidation Incentive) = $10.75 worth of ALGO from the liquidatee. This amounts to $10.75 / $1.30 = 8.27 ALGO.
Afterwards, the liquidatee has a Borrow of 10 USDC vs. a Collateral of 30 - 8.3 = 21.7 ALGO. The liquidatee's borrow is $10 and Max Borrow is 21.7 * $1.30 * 0.50 = $14.1 for a Borrow Utilization of $10 / $14.1 = 71%, under the 100% threshold.
Simply put, liquidation keeps the Algofi protocol solvent by incentivizing liquidators to repay the loans of liquidatees whose Borrow Utilizations have risen past 100% for one or more of three key reasons:
- Collateral prices fell quickly causing Max Borrow to fall below Borrow
- Borrow prices rose quickly, causing their borrow value to exceed Max Borrow
- Borrow interest caused their Borrow to rise above Max Borrow
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