Risks
Description of Risks & Mitigations
This section highlights the risks of using the Level protocol, how we mitigate the risks and any plans to minimize these risks further.
Collateral Risk
Description: Risk that the underlying collateral is insolvent.
Mitigations:
Strict criteria for deciding what collateral to accept to back lvlUSD.
Currently, the only accepted collateral are USDC and USDT.
Lending Protocol Risk
Description: the underlying lending protocols may accrue bad debt.
Mitigations:
Strict criteria for deciding which lending protocols to deploy collateral into, including liquidity, what collateral a lending protocol accepts, and historical performance during periods of heightened volatility. For lending protocols where collateral assets are selected by curators, we apply a similar methodology to the curators.
Smart Contract Risk
Description: Vulnerabilities in smart contracts that lvlUSD collateral is deployed into, or that manage lvlUSD collateral may make lvlUSD insolvent.
Mitigations:
All smart contracts are audited by reputable audit firms, and audits are published on our website (link).
Internally, at least one other engineer peer reviews all smart contract code.
Level uses Hexagate to monitor our smart contracts 24/7 and to automatically respond to critical incidents
Operational Security Risk
Description: certain protocol functionality, such as emergency collateral rescue functions, are controlled by permissioned roles, which may become compromised.
Mitigation:
All smart contracts are owned by a timelock that are controlled by the admin multisig
All admin roles are multisigs
All end-signers are cold wallets.
The team cannot unilaterally execute transactions, there must be at least one external signer
External signers are known, reputable firms such as Spearbit
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