Discussion on Granda Mento: Enabling Larger Stablecoin Mints

I am a bit confused what is the goal here. I see two scenarios:

#1. There is a user who has 1 million+ $-s and wants to convert it to cUSD with minimal slippage.
#2. There is a user who already has ton of CELO and wants to get access to cUSD.

I don’t think it makes sense to solve or enable any batch trade things for #2 case. Especially at the core protocol. If such large trades are needed, it would be much better if someone else were to build a decentralized auction type of thing so large buys or sells of CELO for cUSD can happen as a single batch. But overall, that shouldn’t be a concern for the core protocol itself.

As for case #1, question would be, what as an acceptable slippage and timeline for the trade?

  • I am fairly confident it is possible to trade 1 million USDT <-> cUSD at 1% premium + (whatever trading fees they would get charged on Bittrex), over just a few days at most. This is especially true for acquiring cUSD. Essentially, if you make a limit order to buy cUSD at the price of 1.01 USDT, even with an order of size 1 million, it will get filled in few days at most.
  • If we want this type of trade to happen at even lower premium, there are other things that would be more useful to do:
    • Get USD / cUSD listed on CoinbasePro
    • Decrease Mento spread from 0.005 to 0.003
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