Slippage Protection for Tokenized Vault
ERC-5143 is a proposed standard that extends the EIP-4626 Tokenized Vault standard with functions dedicated to safe interaction between EOAs and the vault when the price is subject to slippage. It proposes an overloaded version of ERC-4626's deposit function that mints shares of the vault to the receiver by depositing exactly the assets of underlying tokens. The proposal aims to standardize the function signatures and behaviors for improved interoperability and better support by wallets.
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Abstract
The following standard extends the EIP-4626 Tokenized Vault standard with functions dedicated to the safe interaction between EOAs and the vault when price is subject to slippage.
Motivation
EIP-4626 security considerations section states that:
"If implementors intend to support EOA account access directly, they should consider adding an additional function call for deposit/mint/withdraw/redeem with the means to accommodate slippage loss or unexpected deposit/withdrawal limits, since they have no other means to revert the transaction if the exact output amount is not achieved."
Yet, EIP-4626 does not standardize the corresponding function signatures and behaviors. For improved interroperability, and better support by wallets, it is essential that this optional functions are also standardized.
Specification
This ERC is an extension of EIP-4626. Any contract implementing it MUST also implement EIP-4626.
Methods
deposit
Overloaded version of ERC-4626's deposit
.
Mints shares
Vault shares to receiver
by depositing exactly assets
of underlying tokens.
MUST emit the Deposit
event.
MUST support EIP-20 approve
/ transferFrom
on asset
as a deposit flow.
MAY support an additional flow in which the underlying tokens are owned by the Vault contract before the deposit
execution, and are accounted for during deposit
.
MUST revert if all of assets
cannot be deposited (due to deposit limit being reached, slippage, the user not approving enough underlying tokens to the Vault contract, etc).
MUST revert if depositing assets
underlying asset mints less then minShares
shares.
Note that most implementations will require pre-approval of the Vault with the Vault's underlying asset
token.
- name: deposit type: function stateMutability: nonpayable inputs: - name: assets type: uint256 - name: receiver type: address - name: minShares type: uint256 outputs: - name: shares type: uint256
mint
Overloaded version of ERC-4626's mint
.
Mints exactly shares
Vault shares to receiver
by depositing assets
of underlying tokens.
MUST emit the Deposit
event.
MUST support ERC-20 approve
/ transferFrom
on asset
as a mint flow.
MAY support an additional flow in which the underlying tokens are owned by the Vault contract before the mint
execution, and are accounted for during mint
.
MUST revert if all of shares
cannot be minted (due to deposit limit being reached, slippage, the user not approving enough underlying tokens to the Vault contract, etc).
MUST revert if minting shares
shares cost more then maxAssets
underlying tokens.
Note that most implementations will require pre-approval of the Vault with the Vault's underlying asset
token.
- name: mint type: function stateMutability: nonpayable inputs: - name: shares type: uint256 - name: receiver type: address - name: maxAssets type: uint256 outputs: - name: assets type: uint256
withdraw
Overloaded version of ERC-4626's withdraw
.
Burns shares
from owner
and sends exactly assets
of underlying tokens to receiver
.
MUST emit the Withdraw
event.
MUST support a withdraw flow where the shares are burned from owner
directly where owner
is msg.sender
or msg.sender
has ERC-20 approval over the shares of owner
.
MAY support an additional flow in which the shares are transferred to the Vault contract before the withdraw
execution, and are accounted for during withdraw
.
MUST revert if all of assets
cannot be withdrawn (due to withdrawal limit being reached, slippage, the owner not having enough shares, etc).
MUST revert if withdrawing assets
underlying tokens requires burning more then maxShares
shares.
Note that some implementations will require pre-requesting to the Vault before a withdrawal may be performed. Those methods should be performed separately.
- name: withdraw type: function stateMutability: nonpayable inputs: - name: assets type: uint256 - name: receiver type: address - name: owner type: address - name: maxShares type: uint256 outputs: - name: shares type: uint256
redeem
Overloaded version of ERC-4626's redeem
.
Burns exactly shares
from owner
and sends assets
of underlying tokens to receiver
.
MUST emit the Withdraw
event.
MUST support a redeem flow where the shares are burned from owner
directly where owner
is msg.sender
or msg.sender
has ERC-20 approval over the shares of owner
.
MAY support an additional flow in which the shares are transferred to the Vault contract before the redeem
execution, and are accounted for during redeem
.
MUST revert if all of shares
cannot be redeemed (due to withdrawal limit being reached, slippage, the owner not having enough shares, etc).
MUST revert if redeeming shares
shares sends less than minAssets
underlying tokens to receiver
.
Note that some implementations will require pre-requesting to the Vault before a withdrawal may be performed. Those methods should be performed separately.
- name: redeem type: function stateMutability: nonpayable inputs: - name: shares type: uint256 - name: receiver type: address - name: owner type: address - name: minAssets type: uint256 outputs: - name: assets type: uint256
Rationale
This ERC's functions do not replace ERC-4626 equivalent mechanisms. They are additional (overloaded) methods designed to protect EOAs interacting with the vault.
When smart contracts interact with an ERC-4626 vault, they can preview any operation using the dedicated functions before executing the operation. This can be done atomically, with no risk of price change. This is not true of EOA, which will preview their operations on a UI, sign a transaction, and have it mined later. Between the preview and the transaction being executed, the blockchain state might change, resulting in unexpected outcomes. In particular, frontrunning make EOA's interractons with an ERC-4626 vault possibly risky.
Other projects in the DeFi spaces, such as decentralized exchanges, already include similar mechanisms so a user can request its transaction reverts if the resulting exchange rate is not considered good enough.
Implementing This ERC on top of an ERC-4626 contract can be done very easily. It just requires calling the corresponding ERC-4626 function and adding a revert check on the returned value.
Alternative approaches
This ERC aims at solving the security concerns (describes in the motivation section) at the vault level. For completeness, we have to mention that these issues can also be addressed using a generic ERC-4626 router, similar to how Uniswap V2 & V3 use a router to provide good user workflows on top of the Uniswap pairs. The router approach is possibly more versatile and leaves more room for evolutions (the router can be replaced at any point) but it also leads to more expensive operations because the router needs to take temporary custody of the tokens going into the vault.
Reference Implementation
Given an existing ERC-4626 implementation
contract ERC5143 is ERC4626 { function deposit(uint256 assets, address receiver, uint256 minShares) public virtual returns (uint256) { uint256 shares = deposit(assets, receiver); require(shares >= minShares, "ERC5143: deposit slippage protection"); return shares; } function mint(uint256 shares, address receiver, uint256 maxAssets) public virtual returns (uint256) { uint256 assets = mint(shares, receiver); require(assets <= maxAssets, "ERC5143: mint slippage protection"); return assets; } function withdraw(uint256 assets, address receiver, address owner, uint256 maxShares) public virtual returns (uint256) { uint256 shares = withdraw(assets, receiver, owner); require(shares <= maxShares, "ERC5143: withdraw slippage protection"); return shares; } function redeem(uint256 shares, address receiver, address owner, uint256 minAssets) public virtual returns (uint256) { uint256 assets = redeem(shares, receiver, owner); require(assets >= minAssets, "ERC5143: redeem slippage protection"); return assets; } }
Security Considerations
This ERC addresses one of the security consideration raised by ERC-4626. Other considerations still apply.
Copyright
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