[For Discussion] Handling of bad debt on Fantom Network

Community Discussion & Proposal
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Background

During the last week’s market correction, Alpaca Finance platform incurred some bad debt in Fantom network. This was due to a combination of rapid price decrease, network congestion and unresponsive node on the Fantom network, causing delay in liquidation.

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Proposed Implementation:

The total amount of bad debt is 62,471 FTM or ~23k USD (at current FTM price) which represents about ~2% of the total amount of FTM liquidated.

Since the amount is higher than 10k USD, we are putting this up for a discussion to activate the insurance plan to cover bad debt for FTM lenders.

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we should consider whether ftm is suitable chain for alpaca to live and expand

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maybe we need to L2 like optimism

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One thing to note is that most/all of this bad debt was from TOMB.

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My vote is to cover it.

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Can I please ask how long is such a voting usually open before a decision is being taken and executed?

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For this, we probably don’t need an AIP so it can go straight to voting and the whole process takes about half a week, but actual deployment of cover funds may take another 1/2-1 week

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I shall put it up on Snapshot for voting by tomorrow.

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Voting is now live on Snapshot. Snapshot

You have until 12 PM UTC, Monday May 23rd to vote.

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hi, since the voting was passed mostly yes, when is it likely to be executed kindly?

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As Sam stated earlier, in about a week or two.

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And we will need to continue to keep ftm in lending meanwhile until it’s concluded to bei included, correct?

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Yes, that’s correct.

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Hi, Just checking in on an Update here kindly?

Thank you!

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Hi,

The repayment has started and currently in progress.

Thank you,

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great, can you foresee when it will be concluded?

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hi again, would be really cool to have a feedback when the repayment has finished? I would assume it already has?

thank you!

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@ADone

Sorry for the late reply.

It’s still on-going and you can see how much is left in the “4. Remaining” field, since the payback is automated.

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thank you very much, how long do you estimate based on the automated payback frequency the current remaining amount 60450185677128894686944 will take?

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so yesterday we had 60450185677128894686944

Today we have 60283199978752775051001

That is a delta of 1.66986

60283199978752775051001 / 1.66986 = 361

So you need another 361 days to finish this operation?