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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