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Liquidation is crucial, and all liquidatable positions must be liquidated to maintain the protocols solvency. However, because the liquidators profit is calculated incorrectly, users are not incentivized to liquidate unhealthy positions. This issue has a significant impact on the protocol.
When the collateral ratio of a user falls below the specified threshold, the users debt positions become liquidatable.
The liquidation process involves the following steps:
Step 1: Calculate the collateral assigned to the debt.
Step 2: Convert debt tokens to collateral tokens.
Step 3: Calculate the liquidators profit if the assigned collateral to this position is larger than the debt value.
As you can see in the log below, the profit is calculated to be extremely small:
Please add below test to the test/local/actions/Liquidate.t.sol:
Use the converted value to ETH:
Math
aviggiano (Size) confirmed and commented:
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