Gauntlet Moonwell Quarterly Updates Q3 2023

Gauntlet Moonwell Quarterly Updates Q3 2023

Summary and Highlights

Sharing a recap of Gauntlet’s market risk management work with Moonwell in Q3 2023.

Category Work Completed Commmentary
3 Routine Recommendations for Artemis via Governance Risk Parameter Recommendations 1 - July 12

Risk Parameter Recommendations 2 - August 29

Risk Parameter Recommendations 3 - September 19

Daily risk simulations and stress tests

Adjusting protocol parameters to combat market volatility and support growing the protocol safely
4 Recommendations for BASE BASE IR Improvement - August 15

DAI New Asset Listing Recs - August 17

BASE Market Risk Update via Forum - August 31

USDC New Asset Listing Recs - September 6

Risk Parameter Recommendations - September 19

Daily risk simulations and stress tests

Adjusting protocol parameters to combat market volatility and support growing the protocol safely

Risk analysis and modeling to support new asset listings on new BASE ecosystem
3 Routine Recommendations for Apollo via Governance Risk Parameter Recommendations 1 - Jul 10

Risk Parameter Recommendations 2 - August 29

Risk Parameter Recommendations 3- September 19

Daily risk simulations and stress tests

Adjusting protocol parameters to combat market volatility and support growing the protocol safely


Gauntlet Onboarded as Risk Guardians
Gauntlet <> Moonwell BASE Risk Guardian Snapshot Vote

4 Cap Guardian Changes Executed

- Lower cbETH Supply & Borrow Cap on BASE (2023-08-24)

- Increase DAI Supply Cap (2023-09-03)

- USDbC Guardian Borrow & Supply Cap (2023-09-13)

- USDC Borrow & Supply Cap Correction (2023-09-14)
Gauntlet is thrilled to support the deployment of Moonwell’s BASE instance and support the community as Risk Guardians.

This quarter we executed 4 Cap Guardian Changes.
Risk Modeling via Forum and Governance Multichain Risk Recs and Snapshot - including risk modeling, risk recommendation triggers, and continuous monitoring.

Firefighting during unique market stress events. Risk modeling to provide insight into the risk/reward tradeoffs of Moonwell initiatives



Upcoming Selected Work

  • BASE Support: As BASE continues to grow, Gauntlet is excited to support Moonwell with new asset listing recommendations and dynamic risk monitoring to ensure Moonwell is sufficiently optimizing for capital efficiency. Congrats to the MW team on their progress with BASE so far!
  • Continued support on native MW instances via Routine and Special Situation Risk Parameter Recommendations
  • Continued support of community initiatives and market alerts

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