Symbiotic

Cap integrates Symbiotic's restaking infrastructure to create a delegation-based credit system where Underwriters provide coverage for Borrowers (agents). Underwriters can deploy Vaults to provide stake to Borrowers as coverage, where depositors can deposit and withdraw out of the vault.

Overview

Vault to Borrower relationship

• Unique Borrower-Vault pair: Each Symbiotic Vault can only delegate to one Borrower. A Borrower must use a different Ethereum address in order to receive delegations from a new Vault. Likewise, an Underwriter must deploy a new Vault in order to delegate to a new Borrower.

• Once a Borrower starts receiving delegations, the Borrower address is immutable.

Lifecycle of Symbiotic Vault

1. Vault Creation: Underwriter creates a Vault via the Cap Symbiotic Vault Factory Contract, which accepts one ERC20 collateral type

2. Cap Whitelisting: After the Vault is deployed, Cap adds the Vault and Borrower address to Cap system along with loan parameters and underwriting premiums

3. Vault Management: Once the Borrower-Vault pair is live, Underwriters have access control over depositors and claiming rewards. Liquidations will trigger liquidation events on the Vault.

Let's dive deeper into each of the steps.

Vault Creation

Deploy Vault

Cap Symbiotic Vault creation and deposit flow

The createVault function is the core deployment function in the CapSymbioticVaultFactory contract.

Vaults that are not registered using the Vault Factory will not be accepted in Cap's system.

function createVault(
    address _owner,      // Vault owner/admin address
    address _asset,      // Collateral asset address (e.g., wstETH)
    address _agent,      // Agent address for delegation coverage
    address _network     // Cap Symbiotic network address
) external returns (
    address vault,       // Deployed vault contract address
    address delegator,   // Deployed delegator contract address
    address burner,      // Deployed burner router address
    address slasher,     // Deployed slasher contract address
    address stakerRewards // Deployed staker rewards contract address
);

Specifically, the function executes the following:

1. deploys a Symbiotic operator for the specified agent to manage delegation

2. deploys Symbiotic Vault and modules according to Cap requirements

Let us dive deeper into the specific requirements of Cap Symbiotic Vaults.

1. Burner

The burner specifies where assets are transferred to when liquidation happens.

A burner router is deployed to set the receiver of the liquidated assets. By setting the owner of the router to be the zero address, the global receiver is immutably set to be Cap's middleware.

function _deployBurner(address _collateral) internal returns (address) {
    return burnerRouterFactory.create(
        IBurnerRouter.InitParams({
            owner: address(0),                    // No owner (immutable)
            collateral: _collateral,              // Asset to burn
            delay: 0,                            // Instant execution
            globalReceiver: middleware,          // Cap network middleware
            networkReceivers: new IBurnerRouter.NetworkReceiver[](0),
            operatorNetworkReceivers: new IBurnerRouter.OperatorNetworkReceiver[](0)
        })
    );
}

2. Delegator

The Delegator module specifies whether restaking is allowed across networks and Borrowers, and the allocation of assets.

Cap requires that staked assets are solely used as coverage for the specific Borrower receiving delegations (i.e. stake cannot be shared with other networks/Borrowers). As such, the OperatorNetworkSpecificDelegator is used to ensure delegations are siloed. Each vault can only delegate to one Borrower.

3. Slasher

The Slasher handles slash requests from Cap’s middleware, by fetching stake from the Delegator and calling the Vault to transfer the assets to the Burner.

The vault uses INSTANT slasher type for immediate slash execution, so that liquidation bonuses can be redistributed immediately.

4. Vault

The Vault handles deposit and withdrawals on an epoch basis. Assets leave Symbiotic vaults only when there is a withdrawal or liquidation event.

Deposits are instant. Withdrawals take until the end of the next epoch to withdraw. The epoch is fixed to 7 days, hence withdrawals take up to 14 days to execute.

5. Staker Rewards

The stakerRewards contract creates a rewards contract to distribute underwriting premiums to Underwriters

stakerRewards = defaultStakerRewardsFactory.create(
    IDefaultStakerRewards.InitParams({
        vault: vault,
        adminFee: 0,                             // Initial admin fee (0%)
        defaultAdminRoleHolder: _owner,          // Vault owner gets admin role
        adminFeeClaimRoleHolder: _owner,         // Vault wner can claim admin fees
        adminFeeSetRoleHolder: _owner            // Vault owner can set admin fees
    })
);

Whitelisting

After the Vault is created, the Vault needs to be added to Cap's system.

Cap whitelists the Borrower-Vault pair via the addAgent function in the SymbioticAgentManager contract. The contract acts as a bridge between the Cap delegation system and the Symbiotic restaking infrastructure, ensuring proper registration and configuration of Borrowers in the system.

The function takes in the following parameters:

struct AgentConfig {
    address agent;              // Agent address (operator)
    address vault;              // Associated Symbiotic vault
    address rewarder;           // Staker rewards contract
    uint256 ltv;                // Loan-to-value ratio (e.g., 0.5e27 = 50%)
    uint256 liquidationThreshold; // Liquidation threshold (e.g., 0.7e27 = 70%)
    uint256 delegationRate;     // Underwriting premium for interest calculation
}

First, the pair is added to the delegation contract, configuring loan parameters such as LTV and LT. By default, LTV is set to 50%, with the liquidation threshold at 80%. Notice, the underwriting premium is also configured in this step.

// Add agent to delegation contract
IDelegation(delegation).addAgent(
    agentAddress,    // Agent address
    middleware,      // Network middleware
    0.5e27,         // LTV (50%)
    0.8e27          // Liquidation threshold (80%)
);

Next, the Vault, rewarder and agent are registered to Cap's Middleware, completing necessary Symbiotic Opt In processes.

ISymbioticNetworkMiddleware($.networkMiddleware).registerVault(
    _agentConfig.vault,
    _agentConfig.rewarder,
    _agentConfig.agent
);

In particular, a subnetwork identifier is created for the Borrower. The identifier is used to enforce the one-to-one relationship between the Borrower and the vault. Delegations to other subnetwork identifiers will not count as effective stake.

Vault Management

Rewards

distributeRewards: Distributes rewards through Symbiotic network

function distributeRewards(address _agent, address _token) external checkAccess(this.distributeRewards.selector)

• _agent: Agent address for reward distribution

• _token: Reward token address

Liquidation

slash: Executes liquidation through Symbiotic network via the Burner

function slash(address _agent, address _recipient, uint256 _slashShare, uint48 _timestamp) external checkAccess(this.slash.selector)

• _agent: Borrower address to liquidate

• _recipient: Address to receive liquidated collateral

• _slashShare: Share of collateral to liquidate

• _timestamp: Timestamp for liquidation

Admin Control

• DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE - Full vault management

• DEPOSIT_WHITELIST_SET_ROLE - Manage deposit whitelist

• DEPOSIT_LIMIT_SET_ROLE - Set deposit limitst