Oval Enables Lending Protocols to Capture Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) through MEV-Share Auctions
Oval Enables Lending Protocols to Capture Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) through MEV-Share Auctions
Oval, a solution developed by UMA in collaboration with Flashbots, allows lending protocols to capture a significant portion of the Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) generated during liquidations that was previously lost to the MEV supply chain. Oval runs order flow auctions in Flashbots' MEV-Share to effectively price liquidations and redirects up to 90% of the OEV back to the lending protocols. This helps lending protocols reclaim lost value, improve capital efficiency, and generate revenue from liquidations. The integration of Oval with Chainlink Data Feeds simplifies MEV capture without the need for code changes.
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Liquidations are an essential component of DeFi lending. However, they are broken. Current models cause lending protocols to leak millions of dollars of value each year. Oval is a solution to this problem. Read on to learn why. 馃 Permissionless lending is one of DeFi鈥檚 most
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Permissionless liquidations are one of DeFi鈥檚 most crucial innovations. But they鈥檙e broken. To understand why, we must look to one of DeFi鈥檚 most successful use cases: lending protocols. In DeFi, demand for loans is high because people want leverage. Lending protocols can
MEV is a HUGE topic in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Oval, lending protocols can capture millions of dollars worth of MEV from oracle updates. This is known as Oracle Extractable Value, or OEV for short. Here鈥檚 a quick primer to OEV and how Oval is set to change DeFi forever.
Lending protocols are overpaying for liquidations. The amount overpaid doesn't secure the protocol. It gets lost to the MEV supply chain. With Oval, the market sets the price of a liquidation and the difference goes to the protocol as revenue. Hear more from @hal2001.
Capture the OEV you're losing today. Oval is built on top of Chainlink Data Feeds to make MEV capture easy. Lending protocols can earn millions in revenue without changing a line of code.
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