Borrowing

Please review Disclaimer: Risk of Using Protocol and Terms of Service before using the Yeti Finance and/or interacting with YETI or YUSD. Yeti Finance & YETI/YUSD are not available in the U.S.

Why Borrow With Yeti Finance:

Due to minumum collaterals ratios as low as 105%, the Yeti Finance protocol offers more capital efficiency than other borrowing systems (i.e. less collateral is needed for the same loan).

Borrowing Process:

Borrowing is pretty straightforward if you understand a couple key things. Users of Yeti Finance can create a trove by depositing collateral assets and borrow our stablecoin, YUSD.

After you pay back your borrowed YUSD, you can withdraw your deposited collateral. Until then, your collateral is held in Yeti Finance as backing for the issued YUSD and a guarantee that the YUSD debt will be paid back. There is a requirement for a minimum debt of 2000 YUSD.

You can take out a loan if the "Risk-Adjusted Value" of your collateral is greater than 110% (or 1.1 times) your borrowed YUSD. The more collateral deposited, and the more safe vs. risky collateral you put in, the higher the "Risk-Adjusted Value." The ratio between collateral and debt in your trove is called your trove's "Individual Collateral Ratio" (ICR) and is displayed here:

Viewing your trove's collateral ratios on the Borrow and Dashboard Pages

Liquidations:

If your collateral drops in price, it will cause your Risk-Adjusted Value to drop, and potentially may make your trove eligible for liquidation. Luckily, stablecoin collaterals should not drop in value as long as the component stablecoins remain pegged. So borrowing against stablecoins is a good way to avoid liquidation no matter what happens in the markets.

There are two system modes, Normal Mode and Recovery Mode. We expect the system to remain in normal mode the vast majority of the time. Recovery mode is an edge case in case of a large systemic drop in collateral value. Recovery mode happens if the Total Collateral Ratio (TCR) falls below 150%. The TCR is displayed on the Dashboard page under "System Collateral Ratio." In both Normal and Recovery Mode, you will be eligible for liquidation if your trove's collateral ratio is below 110%. But in Recovery Mode you are also eligible for liquidation if your AICR (Adjusted Individual Collateral Ratio) is less than TCR.

Trove Status	Normal Mode	Recovery Mode
ICR < 110%	Liquidation	Liquidation
110% < ICR and AICR < TCR	Can't be liquidated	Liquidation
110% < ICR and 150% < AICR	Can't be liquidated	Can't be liquidated

So if you keep your ICR above 110% and AICR above 150%, your trove can never be liquidated under normal mode or recovery mode.