The interest you're earning on Anchor Protocol comes from borrowers.
4/ @anchor_protocol requires users to deposit an asset like $bETH or $bLUNA as collateral in order to borrow against it.
In order to borrow $60 of $UST, you need to deposit $100 or more of collateral.
Your Loan-To-Value or LTV ratio here is $60/$100 = 60%
@anchor_protocol requires borrowers to have an LTV ratio <= 60%.
This means that borrowing the maximum amount allowed ($60 $UST with $100 bETH collateral) is very risky because the value of $ETH could fall, and put your collateral at risk.
6/ Letβs say you borrow $60 $UST using $100 $bETH as collateral.
$ETH falls 20%. You now have $80 of $bETH collateral but $60 of borrowed $UST. So your LTV now rises to $60/$80 = 75%.
Anchor is not comfortable with this level of collateral, so the loan is deemed at risk
7/ Anchor is now looking to liquidate the collateral and repay the loan. So they need to find buyers for the $bETH collateral. π³
The buyer of the collateral needs an incentive as well (otherwise he / she could simply buy $ETH from the spot market).
8/ So Anchor is willing to sell it at a discount to the market value. The size of the discount depends on what people are willing to pay.
Interestingly, this protocol is also supposed to prevent cascading liquidations by having this gradient of buyers at lower discounts (though we're not quite sure how that works yet).
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