Proposal: Remove Bancor 3 Fee Discount From ArbFastLane

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To be posted to snapshot on Sunday Dec 22, 2024

TLDR

  • The Arb Fast Lane Protocol was created in early 2023 following this proposal: Snapshot
  • Since then, the protocol has been a massive success: https://dune.com/bancor/arbfastlane-ecosystem
  • The Arb Fast Lane has a few purposes
    • Help ensure Carbon DeFi’s users have their strategies filled when in the money
    • Use gains to bring pools to a state of surplus
    • It provides a large number of additional benefits to blockchains such as making markets more efficient, filling blocks, sending transactions to the wider DeFi ecosystem on that chain - but this is beyond the scope of this proposal as none of this will change.
  • From the start, it was recognized that the Bancor 3 fee discount could potentially be taken advantage of, though it was uncertain whether the benefits would justify the effort required to do so.
  • In recent weeks,likely due to market movements, multiple attempts, some successful, to take advantage of the discount while avoiding the protocol receiving its due portion of the arbitrage.
  • Instead of engaging in a time consuming and expensive game of cat and mouse, this proposal suggests simply removing the fee discount.
  • This would make the Arb Fast Lane on mainnet function exactly like it does on CELO, SEI and all other chains where it is active.

Will the Bot Support Bancor3?

  • If you want to arb vs Bancor 3 - You will need to update the bot to ensure it is no longer assuming a fee of zero on Bancor 3 pools.

What If I Don’t Want to Arb Bancor 3?

  • Update the settings to not arb this exchange

For

Remove the Bancor 3 fee discount from the ArbFastLane

Against

Do nothing

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I support this as it will allow the focus to remain on innovation, which I believe has a much higher expected value vs focusing on defense.

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Totally agree, focus is expensive and finite so lets put it to the highest use.

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