Overview

The Reservoir Protocol sets several key mechanisms to mitigate the financial risks and to ensure the health and solvency of the protocol. The key metrics are as follows:

Liquidity Ratio

Liquid assets within 30 daysrUSD that can be redeemed within 30 days\frac{\sum \text{Liquid assets within 30 days}}{\sum \text{rUSD that can be redeemed within 30 days}}
  • This ratio indicates the ability for the rUSD to be redeemed timely by measuring the liquid assets with 30 days against the maximum amount of rUSD redeemable for 30 days. The ratio is used to manage liquidity risk of the protocol.

  • The safeguarding threshold for liquidity ratio is set at 105%. As the ratio falls below 105%, the credit enforcer (which is the smart contracts that ensure risk metrics are enforced permissionlessly) will commence sales of assets to increase liquidity.

Asset Ratio

AssetsLiabilities\frac{\sum \text{Assets}}{\sum \text{Liabilities}}
  • The solvency ratio indicates the protocol’s ability to meet its existing liabilities by measuring its total assets against its total liabilities.

  • The solvency ratio's safeguarding threshold is set at 105%. If the ratio falls below this, the credit enforcer, a key internal mechanism, will step in and sell native tokens to raise cash for the balance sheet's liabilities.

Equity Ratio

EquityCapital at risk (*)\frac{\sum \text{Equity}}{\sum \text{Capital at risk (*)}}
  • The capital ratio is used to mitigate capital risk when the protocol takes on too many risky assets, and the capital at hand might not be enough to absorb the losses (if losses happen).

  • The safeguarding threshold for the equity ratio is set at 105%. As the ratio falls below 105%, the credit enforcer will commence sales of risky assets to reduce the exposure to risky assets on hand.

Metric
Liquidity Ratio
Asset Ratio
Equity Ratio

Measuring/ Indicating

Reservoir Protocol’s ability for rUSD to be redeemed timely

Reservoir Protocol’s ability to meet its liabilities and repay the creditors

Reservoir Protocol’s capital on hand is enough to absorb any losses from the risky assets

Comparable to

Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) with Reservoir using 100% of net cash outflow

Leverage Ratio (at Basel III standard) with Reservoir inverting the Asset Ratio (i.e. Asset Ratio = 1/(1 - Leverage Ratio)

Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital requirement, which computes Equity / Capital at risk with Reservoir adjusting with Capital ratio = CET1 * 12.5

Threshold

105%

105%

105%

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