Preon's Liquidation Mechanism

What are the differences between Redemptions and Liquidations?

Redemption is a mechanism that makes a user reduce exposure to the collateral of their choice in the specific vault that is redeemed.

When a Nebula Vault is entirely closed after exceeding the protocol's maximum LTV threshold, liquidation occurs, causing the user to forfeit the whole sum of collateral. However, following a liquidation, the user is no longer required to repay their loan.

What are redemptions?

Holders of STAR have the option to redeem their STAR at any moment for 0.97 USD worth of underlying collateral, according to the redemption mechanism. Every time a redemption is honored, 1 STAR is equal to $0.97 USD in collateral less the current redemption cost.

This means that there is currently a 3% fee in place for redemptions that is paid out to the borrower you are redeeming against. It will not initially be possible to redeem collateral against other users through our dApp.

Is a redemption the same as paying back my debt?

No, redemptions do not constitute top-ups or minimizing LTV. To repay your debt, all one has to do is minimize their $STAR debt from the dApp.

As a borrower, do I lose money if I'm redeemed against?

If your Vault is redeemed against, you do not incur a net loss. However, you will lose some of your collateral exposure.

How can I avoid being redeemed against?

The best way to avoid being redeemed against is by maintaining a conservative LTV relative to the rest of the vaults in the protocol. Riskier vaults are first to be redeemed against.

What are liquidations?

To ensure that STAR is always fully backed by collateral, Vaults that go below the minimum CDR will be closed/liquidated.

The debt of the vault is cancelled and absorbed by the Stability Pool and its collateral distributed among Stability Providers.

The owner of the vault still keeps the full amount of STAR borrowed and will not need to repay their debt.

Who can liquidate Nebula Vaults?

Anybody can liquidate a vault as soon as it goes below the minimum CDR.

Collateral Status

Each opened vault displays LTV for users. Each collateral type on Preon has a maximum LTV that it can have. If the collective LTV of a collateral type goes over the maximum, the vault enters Recovery Mode.

What is Recovery Mode?

Recovery Mode is a system which kicks in when the total LTV of one specific collateral type goes above the maximum LTV.

During Recovery Mode, vaults above 71.4% LTV can be liquidated.

If a vault is in Recovery Mode, no $STAR can be minted until its LTV goes below the maximum. This can be achieved by repaying $STAR debts or adding more collateral to your vault.

The goal of Recovery Mode is to incentivize borrowers to behave in ways that promptly reduce the LTV back below the Maximum LTV and to incentivize $STAR holders to replenish the Stability Pool.

Economically, Recovery Mode is designed to encourage collateral top-ups and debt repayments, and also itself acts as a self-negating deterrent: the possibility of it occurring actually guides the system away from ever reaching it.