Seed-deposit requirement for new market listing
Euler V2's assessment for RD-F-071 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
EVK whitepaper recommends (but does not mandate) that vaults have some small initial deposit as a defensive measure. Vault creation is permissionless — deployer can create with zero initial supply. The virtual deposit mechanism (F074) mitigates share-inflation risk even for empty vaults, but a new empty vault with a thin oracle-feeding pool remains manipulable via direct token donation if VIRTUAL_DEPOSIT is insufficiently large. No hard protocol-enforced seed-deposit listing gate exists. Yellow: protection is architectural but not enforced as a required listing condition.
Sources #
- Docshttps://github.com/euler-xyz/euler-vault-kit/blob/master/docs/whitepaper.mdretrieved 2026-05-04
- https://docs.euler.finance/creator-tools/vaults/evk/introduction/retrieved 2026-05-04
Methodology #
Determine whether market-listing governance or code requires a minimum seed deposit before borrow-enabling a new market.
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