ERC-5143: Slippage Protection for Tokenized Vault
An extension of EIP-4626 supporting improved EOA interactions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Security Considerations
This ERC addresses one of the security consideration raised by ERC-4626. Other considerations still apply.
Copyright
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