Introduction for BA Labs as eBTC Contributor

Hello BadgerDAO community,

We at BA Labs are excited to participate as risk management contributors for Badger’s upcoming eBTC protocol! We wanted to take the opportunity to introduce ourselves, share more about our background, and touch on some focus areas we’ll be prioritizing to support eBTC.

Parameters and Monetary Policy

We have deep experience with parameter management and stablecoin monetary policy through our contributions at MakerDAO, including long term engagement as the Maker risk service provider and participation in the former DAI monetary policy committee (MOMC). We will provide guidance to the BadgerDAO for managing key eBTC monetary policy levers including protocol yield share and redemptions parameters. Along with Steakhouse, we will also be founding members of the initial eBTC asset liability committee (ALCO) to drive monetary policy and stability for eBTC.

Liquidity Management

Protocol directed liquidity and surplus funds will play a key role in driving utility and stability for eBTC’s launch. We’ll provide analysis and strategic recommendations for managing the protocol’s assets to ensure adequate liquidity for both user experience and risk management purposes. As usage and circulating supply of eBTC scale up further, we will also assess liquidity requirements and provide guidance on the most efficient way to meet these needs, either via additional protocol owned assets or targeted incentives. Concurrently, a framework for using protocol reserves to actively support the eBTC peg through arbitrage trading will drive improved stability and market confidence while providing profit opportunities for the protocol reserves.

Analytics Tooling

BA Labs has provided highly used dashboards across top lending and stablecoin protocols including Maker, Aave, Compound, Spark, and Ajna. We are currently developing a dashboard for eBTC to show key protocol metrics including the following:

  • Aggregate data across all CDPs: total debt, total collateral, total collateral ratio of the protocol overall (TCR) and comparison to recovery mode, distribution of debt by CDPs’ individual collateral ratio (ICR) and corresponding liquidations curve
  • Individual CDP data: ICR, collateral and debt amounts, protection score rating (modeled likelihood of CDP being liquidated based on user behavior), debt in front (at lower ICR) for redemptions, and historical CDP activity including eBTC mints/burns as well as collateral deposits/withdrawals
  • Current system parameters: redemption fee floor, alpha, and decay, recovery mode status, flash loan fee, and protocol yield share
  • Oracles: primary and backup oracle status, current price, and historical data
  • Liquidations: historical breakdown of liquidations over time with price and performance data, broken down by borrower and liquidator
  • User acquisition: analysis of CDP user migration from other defi protocols

The eBTC dashboard will be a core tool for surfacing risk metrics, demonstrating the utility of eBTC and CDP products, and communicating the protocol’s growth story to the wider public. Over time we plan to provide additional information beyond CDP focused data, including eBTC price and liquidity metrics, protocol revenue, and asset allocation across future minting mechanisms.

Future Work

As the protocol matures after launch, Badger will be able to shift focus from stabilization to rapidly scaling eBTC. Some of the top priorities we envision include a staked version of eBTC to share protocol revenues with holders and drive growth, and deploying additional minters to deepen eBTC liquidity and utility, including a potential Bitcoin stability module (BSM, functionally similar to PSMs used by other decentralized stablecoins) or algorithmic market operation (AMO) module. Sound risk analysis will ensure that these and other growth initiatives get off on the right foot.

We look forward to working collaboratively with Badger core contributors, Steakhouse, and the broader community to grow the protocol and position eBTC as the canonical tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum!

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Hello BA Labs. Can you post links to your socials and some information about your business model and ethos? Would enjoy learning more about you.

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Hi @hash_error!

You can find us on twitter at https://twitter.com/BlockAnalitica, and we also run a bot twitter account that highlights liquidations and other activity in protocols we cover at https://twitter.com/BlockAnaliticaA. We plan to highlight data and insights from eBTC on our socials going forward!

We’re a risk consulting and analytics company and we operate on a fee-for-service model. To date, we are fully bootstrapped with no VC funding.

We’ve chosen to focus specifically on risk analysis and management for defi lending and stablecoin projects, and have built up a strong team with deep hands-on experience in these areas. We’re proud to have built a strong track record through our work at MakerDAO and other top defi projects over the past several years.

Our team holds itself to high standards of integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness, and we seek to balance the sometimes competing demands of supporting innovation while maintaining protocol solvency and safety of user funds. We’re looking forward to bringing our experience to bear to help launch and bootstrap eBTC!

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