Summary

Authorize the following changes to the RBS system:

  1. Globally tighten spreads to 7.5% cushion and 15% wall spread

  2. Logic change: If 30D MA is below liquid backing, set target price to liquid backing AND regeneration time to 0

  3. Logic change: If 30D MA is above liquid backing, set target price to 30D Moving Average (MA) AND regeneration time to 18/21 epochs

Also authorize the Policy MS to optionally launch an Inverse Bond market at its discretion to encourage price to move above the new Lower Wall as needed. If needed, this market would launch before the above changes take place.

Context and Motivation

The Range Bound Stability (RBS) system launched on 18 November, and has operated very well with support cushions being activated a few times to reduce volatility. A key takeaway so far has been that the market seems to be supporting price in the cushions before they are activated by RBS. A good example of this is in the price action on 26 November at 1700 UTC. A single massive sell pushed price into the cushion zone, but other market participants “bought the dip” and moved price back into the range. This happened without expending any Treasury funds.

However, during this time the target price (currently the 30d MA of OHM price) has continued to decline. As a result, the cushions continue to trend downwards. Treasury support moves lower and the resistance (sell) cushion and wall are now below backing. This trend is not ideal, as it really doesn’t make sense for the Treasury to sell OHM below backing. It’s purely dilutive to the Treasury and OHM holders, and suppresses price movement to a point of premium. Following the 30d MA this far below backing also shows us a point of improvement for the system: since the Treasury can infinitely support price below backing, and it’s clear that the market will help support the Treasury while in the cushions, it makes sense to follow the Liquid Backing figure as the Target Price instead of 30d MA, while the MA is below backing.

Reminder: the spirit of launching RBS is to find the optimal parameters for all scenarios that RBS could encounter. This OIP is intended to be a step towards optimizing Treasury utilization and market performance in a global bear market scenario. We can further tune these parameters if we find after implementation that the market isn't responding as predicted here.

Implementation Notes

  • The minimumTargetPrice variable will be manually passed into the contract, set to the Liquid Backing price for the launch of this OIP. Following Liquid Backing in an automated way requires the Liquid Backing figure to be available on-chain. This can be done either with a direct calculation, or through an Oracle. These two options will be explored but are not ready yet, so to start the Policy will periodically update this number. Once the DAO finds a suitable automated method, we will transition to that.

  • The new proposed Lower Wall would be around $8.87, which could be above the market price of OHM at the time of launch. This is not a bad thing, it just creates an easy arb for an individual to profit off of. In order to facilitate fair and smooth price action leading up to the launch of these changes, the DAO is asking for permission to launch an Inverse Bond market ahead of time on an as-needed basis. This may not be needed if price organically meets the Lower Wall beforehand.

  • Regeneration time of 0 means that the Policy MS will be able to regenerate the lower wall capacity instantly. This should be automated in the future, in the same spirit as the minimumTargetPrice above. Since the Lower Wall effectively has infinite capacity while below Liquid Backing, it should serve as a “floor” while OHM trends below Liquid Backing.

  • Restore regeneration time to 18/21 epochs (as it is currently) when the MA goes above backing. While OHM price is above Liquid Backing, the Treasury could theoretically run out of funds trying to support the market with the Lower Cushion and Wall. This is the main reason to reinstate the original regeneration time to 18/21 epochs while above backing.

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Poll

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Should the DAO pass the changes in Summary to the RBS system?

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    Came for the tech. Stayed for the TL;DR picture.

    abipup Also authorize the Policy MS to optionally launch an Inverse Bond market at its discretion to encourage price to move above the new Lower Wall as needed. If needed, this market would launch before the above changes take place.

    This is the only part I take a bit of issue with.

    What implications does this have on the measure of success of the RBS experiment?

    I feel like we should just follow the Governance path here and make the changes in due time rather than rushing w/ manual efforts.

    Thoughts?

        dr00 I think if we're going to do it we may as well buy and burn OHM at these cheap prices to get us back up

          Im supportive. Think we end up needing even tighter ranges but this is a good step towards ultimately reaching a tuned state.

          dr00 this is related to the second Implementation Note. Lower Wall price will jump up and we'll suddenly be under the wall if price doesn't move up beforehand. It just means that someone will be able to buy OHM and redeem to the wall price for ez arb. More fair to the market to do so via inverse bonds beforehand. But we will see if that's even needed given the forward guidance provided by the impending change.

              Happy to see quick response to the discussions we had on the server about this topic, you have my full support. Also do agree, fine-tuning is a way to go to find best practice!

              All for, I think we will see the market buy up the current arbing oppertunity up to the new set parameters. Only think those will sell again once parameters are actually set.

              Thank you for monitoring the progress and data since RBS has launched, and for the timely response to adjust parameters based on this data. I think it was important to see the RBS operations at baseline for at least a week before making adjustments to the system and have enjoyed reading through the discussion and feedback in the policy channel on the Olympus discord as this proposal was formed. It seems that the feedback from the community is well represented in this proposal.

              As a close watcher of the RBS experiment overall, I like and support this approach. The current system tuning does not provide enough incentive for market actors to participate in RBS.

              This change to the system would hopefully get market actors (trading more actively with the Treasury), which is within the stated goal of RBS, and will support OHM's price stability and reliability.

              I view the manual intervention as a temporary needed measure as data is collected about when/whether these interventions are needed, and expect this to fade as the system becomes more mature.

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