Integrate PT-cUSDO on Euler Yield Market

Summary

This proposal seeks approval to integrate PT-cUSDO-19JUN2025 as collateral on the Euler Yield market. We believe this will allow Euler DAO to strategically expand its competitive stablecoin yield offering, capturing increasing demand for OpenEden.

Fundamentals

cUSDO is the compounding (accumulating) version of the USDO token, a yield-bearing stablecoin issued by OpenEden Digital in a bankrupt-remote setup. USDO is backed by short-term U.S. Treasury Bills and reverse repurchase agreements. USDO is overcollateralized with its reserves transparent and continuously attested to via a Chainlink Proof of Reserves feed. USDO has a total supply of 89.2M tokens, 69.4M of which are in the compounding wrapper, cUSDO. 60% of cUSDO supply is locked in Pendle.

Liquidity

The Pendle pool has 36.8M in liquidity. cUSDO has $42.1M in total liquidity on a single Curve pool against USDC. Both liquidity venues combined can accommodate a 15M PT-cUSDO to cUSDO swap with 1.78% price impact.

Yield

OpenEden has an active Bills Points campaign with the biggest 10x multiplier given for Pendle YT and LP, contributing to a market leading yield for PT-cUSDO at 13.2%. For comparison, PT-eUSDe yields 8.7% and sUSDS yields 4.5% (benchmark rate). The high PT yield is an indicator that market participants value OpenEden’s points program highly. Its addition in the Euler Yield market would create lucrative looping opportunties, resulting in a positive feedback loop for both OpenEden and Euler.

Risk Recommendations

Based on the fundamental and economic indicators of PT-cUSDO we would like to recommend the following risk parameters for its integration on Euler Yield:

Caps

Supply Cap Borrow Cap
4M (~$4M at expiry) 0 (borrowing disabled)

Liquidation LTV

Debt LLTV
wM 84%
USDT 84%
USDS 84%
USDe 84%
USDC 84%
USD0 84%
RLUSD 84%
PYUSD 84%
FDUSD 84%
DAI 84%

In line with the rest of the market, Objective Labs recommends that the borrow LTV should be set to two percentage points less than liquidation LTV.

Interest Rate Model

The IRM can remain unset since PT-cUSDO will be non-borrowable.

Oracle

We propose that a Pendle PT market oracle be used, crossed by cUSDO’s ERC4626 conversion rate, crossed by a fixed (1:1) oracle to USD.

Author

Objective Labs is a service provider for Euler Labs tasked with product development, risk management, and incentive optimization. Objective Labs is Euler-aligned.

[Gauntlet] - Parameter Recommendations for PT-cUSDO-19JUN2025 on Euler Yield (2025-04-17)

Gauntlet has reviewed Objective Labs’ proposal to onboard PT-cUSDO-19JUN2025 to Euler Yield. The PT asset, cUSDO, is OpenEden’s accumulating wrapper for their USDO. USDO is a regulated yield-bearing stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar that is backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries and USDC.

The backing is primarily composed of OpenEden’s TBILL token, which itself is backed by a fund consisting of U.S. treasuries of weighted average maturity less than 3 months. The TBILL issuer is regulated by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission and was given an “Investment Grade” rating by Moody’s. The U.S. T-Bills themselves are held in custody by regulated custodians.

Presently, the only on-chain liquidity that exists for cUSDO lives primarily in a ~$39M liquidity Curve cUSDO/USDC pool, as well as a smaller ~$140K Balancer pool. The Curve pool’s LP holders are sufficiently diversified, as the top 10 holders hold ~60% of the token. Otherwise the only atomic liquidity available is an instant redemption of USDO through OpenEden, which requires permissioning.

The Pendle cUSDO LP pool currently holds ~$45M SY-cUSDO and ~$10M PT-cUSDO, and its holders are also sufficiently diversified as the top 10 holders hold ~67% of the token.

We are aligned with Objective Labs’ oracle recommendation of a Pendle PT-cUSDO/SY-cUSDO oracle composed with a cUSDO/USDO exchange rate oracle. While on-chain liquidity is limited, we recommend a USDO/USD NAV-based oracle or one with similar risk profile for the final composition.

Cap Recommendations

If the community wishes to launch the PT-cUSDO-19JUN2025 market on Euler Yield, Gauntlet recommends the following risk parameters:

  • Set supply cap to 4,000,000
  • Set borrow cap to 0

Presently PT-cUSDO can withstand over 10M swap to SY-cUSDO in Pendle AMM with less than 1% price impact.

Interest Rate Curve Recommendations

This asset is recommended not to be borrowable initially, so no IR curve needs to be set.

LLTV Recommendations

Here, we aim to maximize risk-adjusted capital efficiency for users. We note that as per the oracle recommendation, primary price risk lies with the Pendle PT/SY oracle, as we believe cUSDO/USDO wrapper risk and USDO/USD NAV risk are low. At a current implied APY of 11.5%, the cUSDO PT/SY price is ~0.982. If we assume the implied APY increases today to 20%, then the PT/SY price will only decrease by ~1.2%, to ~0.97. Outsize increase in implied APY otherwise is very unlikely. PT/SY price will increase if the implied APY decreases, and as maturity approaches.

Therefore, we believe the LLTVs recommended by Objective Labs can actually be increased slightly with minimal additional risk to users.

This table assumes PT-cUSDO as the collateral asset. No recommendation is made for FDUSD as the vault currently has supply and borrow disabled.

Borrow LTVs are recommended as two percentage points less than the recommended LLTVs per collateral/debt pair.

Debt LLTV
wM 88%
USDT 88%
USDS 88%
USDe 88%
USDC 88%
USD0 88%
RLUSD 88%
PYUSD 88%
DAI 88%

Next Steps

  • We welcome community feedback.
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