# Lower the aDOT borrow rate curve

## Summary

This referendum switches the DOT (aDOT) money-market reserve to a new interest rate strategy. The base rate drops from 1% to 0% and the rate at the 85% optimal utilization point drops from 4.5% to 2.75%. The rate at 100% utilization stays at 49.5%.

## Motivation

**The key driver behind this is the recent further reduction in DOT staking rewards - this strategy change aims to make GDOT/vDOT looping profitable at higher utilisation**. DOT borrowing on Hydration currently sits at around 40% utilization. The existing curve charges 1% before any DOT is borrowed and 2.66% at today's utilization. A flatter curve below the kink makes aDOT cheaper to borrow against the same collateral while keeping the steep slope above 85% that protects suppliers' ability to withdraw.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Current | Proposed |
|---|---|---|
| Base variable borrow rate | 1.00% | 0.00% |
| Slope 1 (0% to 85% utilization) | 3.50% | 2.75% |
| Slope 2 (85% to 100% utilization) | 45.00% | 46.75% |
| Optimal utilization | 85% | 85% |
| Borrow rate at 85% | 4.50% | 2.75% |
| Borrow rate at 100% | 49.50% | 49.50% |

At the current utilization of 40.35% the borrow APR moves from 2.66% to 1.31% and the aDOT supply APR from 0.97% to 0.47%.

## Technical details

Aave v3 interest rate strategies are immutable contracts, so the change requires a new strategy deployment and a governance call pointing the reserve at it. The new strategy is deployed at 0xD3798D35EE1C552bB7C5Ee6641118cf800Ea565A and its parameters have been verified on chain.

The call dispatches PoolConfigurator.setReserveInterestRateStrategyAddress for the DOT reserve through the Aave manager. It has been dry-run on a chopsticks fork of mainnet, where it executed successfully and emitted the expected ReserveInterestRateStrategyChanged event.

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Source: https://github.com/galacticcouncil/money-market/compare/hydration...feat/dot-rate-strategy


# Lower the aDOT Borrow Rate Curve

## What is it?
- A vote to change how much interest people pay to borrow DOT (called aDOT) on Hydration.
- It makes borrowing DOT cheaper for most people.

## What changes?
- The starting interest rate goes from 1% down to 0%.
- At 85% full, the rate drops from 4.5% to 2.75%.
- At 100% full, the rate stays at 49.5% (very high, to protect lenders).

## Why do it?
- DOT staking rewards went down recently.
- Cheaper borrowing helps a strategy called GDOT/vDOT looping work better.
- Right now about 40% of DOT is borrowed, and the rate there would fall from 2.66% to 1.31%.

## How does it work?
- Aave v3 rate strategies can't be edited, so a brand new one is deployed.
- The new strategy is at address 0xD3798D35EE1C552bB7C5Ee6641118cf800Ea565A.
- It has been tested on a copy of mainnet and worked correctly.

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Parameter	Current	Proposed
Base variable borrow rate	1.00%	0.00%
Slope 1 (0% to 85% utilization)	3.50%	2.75%
Slope 2 (85% to 100% utilization)	45.00%	46.75%
Optimal utilization	85%	85%
Borrow rate at 85%	4.50%	2.75%
Borrow rate at 100%	49.50%	49.50%