Why does TSLAB have a 60% collateral factor but a 70% liquidation threshold on Venus?
At first, those numbers looked like two ways of saying the same thing to me.
If Venus recognizes 60% of the asset's value for borrowing, why is the liquidation threshold 70%?
Then I realized I was mixing two different risk parameters.
The collateral factor answers one question:
How much of the supplied asset's value can count toward borrowing capacity?
The liquidation threshold answers another:
At what point does the position become eligible for liquidation?
For TSLAB and NVDAB, Venus initially set:
60% collateral factor
70% liquidation threshold
For SPCXB:
50% collateral factor
65% liquidation threshold.
And there's an important detail: borrowing was paused at launch, with the borrow cap set to zero.
So these numbers weren't evidence that users were already borrowing against bStocks. They were the initial risk parameters for how those markets would be treated.
That made me look at the two percentages differently.
The collateral factor limits how much borrowing capacity the collateral can create.
The liquidation threshold defines where the position crosses into liquidation risk.
So the gap between them isn't a contradiction.
It's a buffer between:
“How much can this collateral support?”
and
“How far can the position deteriorate before liquidation becomes possible?”
For me, that's one of the more interesting things about bringing tokenized stocks into DeFi.
The token may represent the same underlying exposure.
But once another protocol accepts it as collateral, the asset gets a completely different risk framework.
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