[ARC] Increase Supply Cap of sAVAX on v3 Avalanche (Fast-track)

This is the conclusion of the team analysis: sAVAX supplier’s leverage demand is very strong.
After the proposal is passed, sAVAX suppliers can still gain a good APY.

Title: Prediction about the increase of sAVAX supply cap

Author: CIAN_team

  • Analysis of sAVAX on AAVE V3

    • Analysis of users’ strategies
    • Analysis of increase of sAVAX
  • The impacts of the proposal after it is passed

Analysis of sAVAX on AAVE V3

Total Supply: 500K
Total Supply/ Supply Cap: 100%
Addresses of sAVAX supplies https://snowtrace.io/token/0x513c7e3a9c69ca3e22550ef58ac1c0088e918fff#balances
Number of suppliers: 2,487
Proportion of the top 36 token holders: 98.39%
Below is the snapshot of main suppliers on 19 th July at 10:00 UTC

Analysis of suppliers strategies

  • 50% of suppliers are using the leveraged staking strategy and half of their health factors are below 1.1.

  • 61.3% of suppliers health factors is under 1.4, which means they are using a high leverage.

Analysis of increase of sAVAX


sAVAX launched on AAVE since 30th June. After the launch, the total supply of sAVAX increased fast by 26%, about 800,000. According to estimates, there is about 200,000 - 300,000 new sAVAX tokens minted because of the leveraged staking strategy.

The impacts of the proposal after it is passed

The supply APY of sAVAX on AAVE is 3.55%, and the borrow APY is 4.4%.

If the supply cap of sAVAX doubles, and is full, the supply APY will be 1.77%.

About 250,000 AVAX will be borrowed due to leveraged staking , so the borrow APY of AVAX will be around 5.76%.

By using CIAN’s leveraged staking strategy, the APY for AVAX can be 30.536%.

Reference
Explanation on SAVAX’s leverage staking strategy: Leveraged Staking Strategies for sAVAX | by CIAN | Jul, 2022 | Medium

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