Lending Protocols Capturing Liquidation MEV with Oval

💰 Liquidation Goldmine Unlocked

By UMA
Apr 15, 2024, 7:05 PM
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Oval is a service that allows lending protocols to capture a significant portion of the miner extractable value (MEV) generated during liquidations on their platforms.​ When market volatility increases, the amount of MEV from liquidations also rises.​ Oval facilitates an auction process where MEV searchers bid to backrun price updates and liquidate undercollateralized loans first, earning the liquidation bonus.​ Oval then distributes up to 90% of this MEV back to the lending protocol.​ This helps lending protocols recapture value that would otherwise be lost to the MEV supply chain.​

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Lending protocols issue liquidation bonuses to incentivize people to secure their solvency. However, the majority of these funds are lost to the MEV supply chain. This is a capital inefficiency that lending protocols can instantly solve with Oval. x.com/hal2001/status…

Hart Lambur (⛺️,⛺️)
Hart Lambur (⛺️,⛺️)
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When we shipped Oval we learned that lending protocols had no idea how much they lost to MEV. This @aave v3 liquidation paid a $73,000 liquidation bonus. The liquidator only got $12. The rest was lost to MEV. @UMAprotocol Oval could have captured and returned ~$65K to Aave.

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