deviant/scripts/sim-anthemus-usd-buffer.mjs

#!/usr/bin/env node
/**
 * sim-anthemus-usd-buffer.mjs — can a unified "USD on Bitcoin Cash" hold a HARD 1=1 even if one
 * component stablecoin DIES on its home chain? Tests the user's stronger claim and finds the exact
 * mechanism that makes it true (spoiler: diversification + per-issuer caps + a BUFFER sized to the
 * cap; the P2P fiat ramp anchors the peg + adds demand but does not manufacture backing).
 *
 * Naming decision (stated, not simulated): the UNIFIED basket has NO single source to mark, so it
 * is just "USD" on BCH — no ε/τ prefix, no issuer suffix. The per-source markers (εUSDC/τUSDt) were
 * for DISTINCT wrapped assets; the unified pool is ONE asset. Components live in the BACKEND ledger.
 *
 * Run: node scripts/sim-anthemus-usd-buffer.mjs
 */
const $=(n)=>(n<0?'-':'')+'$'+Math.abs(Math.round(n*100)/100).toLocaleString('en-US',{minimumFractionDigits:2,maximumFractionDigits:2});
const pct=(n)=>(n*100).toFixed(2)+'%';
const div=(c='=')=>console.log(c.repeat(94));
const head=(t)=>{console.log('\n');div();console.log(t);div();};

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head('PART 1 — DEPEG vs DEATH: the two events, and the buffer each needs to hold a HARD 1=1.');
{
  console.log('  A DEPEG is temporary + partial (USDC −13% at SVB, recovered in 3 days). A DEATH is permanent');
  console.log('  (issuer → $0). On a diversified basket with a per-issuer CAP, the loss is bounded:\n');
  console.log(['event','component weight','basket loss','buffer to hold 1=1'].map(s=>s.padStart(22)).join(''));
  div('-');
  const rows=[
    ['DEPEG 13% · 10 issuers', 0.10, 0.10*0.13],
    ['DEPEG 13% · 5 issuers',  0.20, 0.20*0.13],
    ['DEATH →$0 · cap 10%',    0.10, 0.10*1.00],
    ['DEATH →$0 · cap 15%',    0.15, 0.15*1.00],
    ['DEATH →$0 · cap 20%',    0.20, 0.20*1.00],
  ];
  for(const [label,w,loss] of rows){
    console.log([label, pct(w), pct(loss), pct(loss)].map(s=>String(s).padStart(22)).join(''));
  }
  console.log('\n  => YOUR CLAIM IS ACHIEVABLE — with a BUFFER (over-collateralization) sized to the loss:');
  console.log('     • a DEPEG needs a TINY buffer (~1–3%) — diversification already shrinks it (report-9).');
  console.log('     • a full DEATH needs buffer = the per-issuer CAP (10–20%). Cap each issuer, buffer to the cap,');
  console.log('       and ANY single issuer can go to zero while USD-on-BCH stays exactly $1. That is a hard peg.');
  console.log('  No major USD stablecoin has ever gone to $0 — so in practice the buffer covers DEPEGS with room');
  console.log('  to spare; the cap-sized buffer is the extreme-tail guarantee.');
}

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head('PART 2 — is the buffer AFFORDABLE? It builds itself from the fees/spread we already modeled.');
{
  const reserve=10_000_000;          // $10M unified-USD reserve
  const cap=0.10, targetBuffer=cap*reserve;   // $1M buffer to survive any single death (cap 10%)
  console.log(`  Target: a ${pct(cap)} buffer on a ${$(reserve)} reserve = ${$(targetBuffer)} (survives any single-issuer death).\n`);
  console.log(['daily volume','buffer accrual @0.05%','days to fund $1M','seed instead?'].map(s=>s.padStart(22)).join(''));
  div('-');
  for(const dv of [250_000, 1_000_000, 5_000_000]){
    const daily=dv*0.0005;           // 0.05% of volume → buffer (a slice of the spread/fee)
    const days=targetBuffer/daily;
    console.log([$(dv), $(daily)+'/d', Math.round(days)+' d', 'or genesis endow'].map(s=>String(s).padStart(22)).join(''));
  }
  console.log('\n  => The buffer is a cheap, self-funding insurance fund: a 0.05% slice of volume (a fraction of the');
  console.log('     40/30/30 spread) builds a full death-proof buffer in months, or seed it once at genesis. This');
  console.log('     is exactly a stablecoin SURPLUS/INSURANCE fund (MakerDAO-style) — but tiny, because the basket');
  console.log('     already diluted the risk. Buffer + diversification + caps = a HARD 1=1 through any one issuer.');
}

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head('PART 3 — the P2P fiat on/off ramp: what it DOES and does NOT do for the peg.');
console.log(`
 DOES:
  • Gives USD-on-BCH its OWN demand + liquidity — people buy it with local fiat to spend/receive on
    BCH (<$0.001, offline), independent of the stablecoin bridges. It becomes first-class money, not
    just a wrapper. Real demand is peg-supportive (buyers want dollars on BCH).
  • Provides an INDEPENDENT peg REFERENCE + arbitrage path: if USD-on-BCH trades below the basket
    value, arbers buy it cheap and redeem the basket; above, they mint and sell. This tightens the peg.

 DOES NOT:
  • Manufacture backing. A P2P market PRICES the real backing — if the basket (net of buffer) is worth
    $0.98, the fiat ramp clears near $0.98, not $1. The ramp anchors + arbitrages the peg; the BUFFER
    is what actually holds it at $1 through a loss. Ramp + buffer together = a hard, liquid, self-
    sustaining dollar; ramp alone = an honest floating price.
  • Remove the regulatory/operational lift: a fiat on/off ramp is a whole product (KYC/AML pressure,
    money-transmission exposure, dispute resolution, local liquidity) — the ADR-0044/0045 P2P market.
`);

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head('PART 4 — the ONE honest correction, and the ONE true residual.');
console.log(`
 CORRECTION — "the value locks on BCH and the other side dying doesn't matter" is not quite right by
  itself. When USDC is deposited, the BACKING is still that USDC on Ethereum; if it dies, that slice
  of backing dies with it. What makes the other side's death "not matter" is the combination:
    (1) DIVERSIFICATION — the dead slice is ≤ its cap (report-9), not the whole reserve;
    (2) ACTIVE MANAGEMENT — the desk rotates OUT of a sickening issuer on the source chain before/as
        it dies (eating a bounded, buffer-covered cost), so the reserve isn't caught holding much of it;
    (3) the BUFFER — absorbs the residual so εUSD stays exactly $1.
  With all three, a single issuer's death genuinely does not move USD-on-BCH. Without the buffer, it
  floats (report-9). So the claim is TRUE — it just names a well-capitalized, actively-managed reserve,
  not magic.

 THE ONE TRUE RESIDUAL — SYSTEMIC risk. Diversification + buffer + caps kill IDIOSYNCRATIC (one-issuer)
  risk completely. They do NOT cover a correlated collapse of the WHOLE USD-stablecoin system at once
  (every component down together, beyond the buffer). That tail is un-diversifiable; the only hedges
  are a larger buffer, or backing partly in a non-correlated asset (BCH itself — but that is FIATm, a
  different product). Disclose it; don't pretend it away.

 NET: "pure USD on Bitcoin Cash", one clean ticker, unified diversified basket in the backend, a
  cap-sized self-funding buffer, active reserve management, and its own P2P fiat ramp = a hard-1=1,
  liquid, self-sustaining dollar that survives ANY single issuer dying. It is the strongest form of the
  design — provided the buffer + caps + management are real and the systemic tail is disclosed.
`);