Rubicon v2

Rubicon v2 contest details

• Total Prize Pool: $60,500 USDC
  • HM awards: $46,550 USDC
  • QA report awards: $5,450 USDC
  • Gas report awards: $2,500 USDC
  • Judge awards: $5,500 USDC
  • Lookout awards: Sponsor to complete Pre-sort
  • Scout awards: $500 USDC
• Join C4 Discord to register
• Submit findings using the C4 form
• Read our guidelines for more details
• Starts April 05, 2023 20:00 UTC
• Ends April 13, 2023 20:00 UTC
• Contest Overview Page from Sponsor

Automated Findings / Publicly Known Issues

Automated findings output for the contest can be found here within an hour of contest opening.

Note for C4 wardens: Anything included in the automated findings output is considered a publicly known issue and is ineligible for awards.

Overview

Rubicon v2 is the next generation of the Rubicon protocol, which has been live on Optimism for over a year. Try out our app, learn more about Rubicon, and read our whitepaper for added context. V2 overhauls the old Pools system, replacing it with a Compound V2 fork - leveraging over-collateralized lending/borrowing to enable cross-margin long/short trading on the protocol. The core of the protocol is RubiconMarket, an open order book contract that allows for limit and market orders for any arbitrary ERC20 trading pair of tokens. Paired with the new Pools system, we feel Rubicon v2 embodies two core primitives of the new financial era: the most efficient modality of exchange paired with a robust multi-collateral money market. Note that this protocol will be deployed on ETH L2 networks that are EVM equivalent, non-EVM L2s may require changes to the implementation.

Scope

The following contracts are considered in scope for this audit. Here is the codebase for the audit, note that it includes some contracts outside of scope for helpful reference and for the testing suite to work.

Total nSLOC: 1577 - calculated with this plugin.

Out of scope

contracts/compound-v2-fork/*.sol and everything that isn't included in the scope above

Additional Context

Rubicon V2 is a new version of the Rubicon Protocol. The Rubicon Pools system has undergone the biggest changes - the previous ERC4626-based liquidity pools have been replaced with Compound’s cTokens. The main functionality of the RubiconMarket remains the same, but minor changes were made. These include the addition of a new maker fee (rebate), changes to the OfferInfo struct, as well as minor changes to the offer functionality itself. All new features are described in more detail in the next section.

We wrap all contracts in TransparentUpgradeableProxies for upgradeability. On Optimism Mainnet, we will upgrade our RubiconMarket and RubiconRouter to the new implementations. For the market contract, there is a storage collision consideration we are aware of (please see Acknowledged Risks below) and the Router will not modify storage when upgraded. Please feel free to sanity-check our approach here!

Contracts overview

RubiconMarket

Source code

This contract implements order-book logic for peer-to-peer trading of ERC-20 tokens and a matching engine. It is a derivative work of MakerDAO’s OasisDEX.

An order book is a list of buy and sell orders for an asset, sorted by price. This contract implements each ERC20/ERC20 order book as two double-linked sorted lists, one for the Buy-side and one for the Sell-side of the given market.

The contract uses an escrow model for liquidity; when a limit order is placed on the book, those tokens are sent to the contract. If/when an order is filled, the contract matches the traders directly and the tokens are sent to each party. An order can be canceled, and the contract will return the tokens to the sender.

V1 to V2 Changeset:

The core trading logic remains the same, while a few minor changes have been implemented, mainly for the accounting of fees, the offer interface, and the OfferInfo struct.

We moved towards fee inclusivity, i.e., the end user does not need to include the fee in their input amount to pay. New view functions for amount calculations with fee(s) were added: getBuyAmountWithFee and getPayAmountWithFee.

A new fee parameter, makerFee, is added to the market. In practice, this fee is paid by the taker to the maker when an offer is filled. To prevent storage collisions (because of the need to store makerFee exactly in one of the inherited contracts), the makerFee storage variable will be stored in a custom storage slot in SimpleMarket.

The owner field in the OfferInfo struct was replaced with recipient, and owner itself has been moved to the end of the struct. recipient now corresponds to the recipient of the offer's fill, while owner refers to the owner and maker of that offer. It's worth noting that only the owner receives the makerFee, if one exists.

To smoothly perform an upgrade of the v1 market to v2, and taking into account the changes done to OfferInfo struct (that affects storage mapping - offers), certain functionality was added in the cancel and buy functions:

• buy
  • buy_gem (an asset to buy), is now transferred to the recipient instead of owner
  • makerFee is transferred to the owner or in case of v1 offer to the recipient to avoid transferring tokens to address(0)
• cancel
  • A new condition for cancelling an offer has been added to the can_cancel modifier. After upgrading, all outstanding offers that were created in v1 will have owner == address(0) and the recipient field will be equal to the owner field of the v1 OfferInfo. To handle the cancellation of v1 offers in v2, an offer can now be cancelled with owner == address(0) and msg.sender == recipient.
  • So, if the above scenario is given, then pay_amt will be transferred to the address that corresponds to the recipient of the offer.

V2Migrator

Source code

Smart-contract, allowing to migrate LP positions from ERC4626-based v1 pool to the cToken-based v2 pool. Position could be migrated by the Rubicon v1 users, through the migrate() entry-point.

BathHouse

Source code

In v2-core, an administrative module that used to manage BathTokens and their respective BathBuddies Contains functionality for the creation of BathTokens and their BathBuddies and claiming of rewards across all pools, using claimComp and getReward

V1 to V2 Changeset:

In contrast with the first version of BathHouse that was acting as an admin and liquidity manager for the Rubicon Pools system and allows access to the market making on Rubicon for actors called strategists, the second version of BathHouse integrates with the Comptroller contract, which now acts as a bath pools manager, while BathHouse more focused on higher-level functions for BathTokens and BathBuddies creation and linking, as well as allows easier access to the reward distribution from both BathToken and BathBuddy.

BathToken (cToken Fork)

Source code, compound docs

In v2-core – main pool primitive, that allows liquidity providers to earn passive yield, while market makers can borrow assets from the pool to execute active market-making strategies.

V1 to V2 Changeset:

BathToken in v2 is a fork of Compound’s CToken contract, which allows bringing together passive LPs and demand from borrowers.

BathBuddy

Source code

Allows liquidity providers (bathToken holders) to earn additional ERC-20 token rewards.

V1 to V2 changeset:

In v2, BathBuddy is spawned upon deployment of each BathToken. The getReward function can now only be called through the BathHouse, either via claimRewards() (for claiming rewards across all existing pools) or via getReward(for claiming rewards in a specific target pool).

This is a conceptual fork and iteration of the SNX rewards distribution contract. We also used this in Pools v1. Note that in our old version, we had the claim function called in the low-level ERC20 functions of the Bath Token itself for automatic distribution. In v2 we remove this because we take the vanilla COMP v2 fork instead for that logic - please ensure that rewards cannot be stolen or incorrectly distributed by the bolt-on nature of a BathBuddy to a BathToken (cToken v2).

Position

Source code

This contract allows for the creation of the leveraged long/short positions on RubiconMarket, internally utilizing cToken functionality, continuously providing collateral and borrowing needed assets to reach a certain desired leverage amount.

Leveraged positions are cross-margined because the cTokens lending market itself is also cross-margined.

All positions are created via PoolsUtility factory contract. The created Position contract can then be used to create multiple leveraged positions.

All leveraged positions are opened by simple recursive borrowing loop (supply collateral → borrow → swap → repeat).

Both longs and shorts can be opened using buyAllAmountWithLeverage and sellAllAmountWithLeverage, respectively.

FeeWrapper

Source code

This contract allows any external smart contract to wrap calls to the Rubicon Protocol (actually it’s possible to wrap calls to any contract) and charge an additional fee. Examples of interactions with the FeeWrapper can be found in Test3rdPartyProtocol.sol

Points of Focus and Concern

• Ensuring BathBuddy is a secure way to distribute rewards to those lending and holding bathTokens (cToken fork)
  • In our past audit, we had calls to distribute these bonus token rewards in the low-level ERC20 functionality of our bath tokens - in this version we don’t do that due to simply taking the vanilla COMP v2 fork as is. Help us make sure rewards work correctly and cannot be hacked.
  • The idea is a BathBuddy is paired with a single cToken and if a rewards program is started on it, then any bathToken holder can claim rewards from the BathBuddy and our system over time
• Ensuring that only the assigned admin of the system, a single EOA, has admin permissions to modify fee logic, create bath tokens, and generally update the system
• Ensuring fee logic on RubiconMarket is bulletproof
• Ensuring the added implementation of batch calling functionality on RubiconMarket is secure
• Ensuring that users can easily perform levered long/short operations, with accuracy, using the combination of the new Pools v2 - COMP v2 fork - system and RubiconMarket
• Ensuring in BathHouseV2 that we are using the correct parts of the COMP v2 fork. For instance, in their repo, they have a number of versions of the Comptroller and we should adopt the best practices that they have keyed in on. Moreover, if there are known issues with this repo that could affect our implementation (however unlikely as this is somewhat of a Lindy system on L1) we would love to know
• Making that the correct version of COMP v2 was pulled for our fork - no modifications or deviations that are semantic should have been made

Acknowledged Risks

• On Optimism Mainnet, we acknowledge that we are accepting a small risk when it comes to storage collision on the RubiconMarket. This stems from the extension of the low-level offers mapping and the OfferInfo struct.
  • For OP Mainnet, we plan to upgrade our RubiconMarket to the v2 implementation using the TransparentUpgradeableProxy pattern.
  • Note that according to our research, the chances of storage collision are quite low, driven by keccak256 behavior, close to that of getting struck by a meteor according to StackOverflow. Here are a couple of links that explore this exact question and where we sized up this “risk”.
  • If you think this risk is not small enough to ignore as we do, please feel free to plead your case We feel it is near-zero that storage collision occurs here given we are only adding one property to the struct and the nature of mappings being stored in storage - if you disagree let’s discuss!
• The parameters supplied to the Pools v2 system are very important. We understand that adding low-liquidity, bad, or malicious tokens to the multi-collateral system invites risks into the entire system. We intend to only add blue-chip assets (e.g. WETH, WBTC, USDC, USDT, DAI) and to ensure we monitor the maximum liquidate-able value of each token on each chain we are on to implement borrowing caps. The Pools system must not grow to a size of borrows in which liquidators cannot remove the position in a healthy way. We plan to continuously monitor the system to make sure the right limits are in place.
• The admin has superpowers in our system - this is an acknowledged point of failure.

Scoping Details

- If you have a public code repo, please share it here:  <https://github.com/RubiconDeFi/rubi-protocol-v2>
- How many contracts are in scope?:   6
- Total SLoC for these contracts?:  1577
- How many external imports are there?:  8
- How many separate interfaces and struct definitions are there for the contracts within scope?:  8
- Does most of your code generally use composition or inheritance?:   Composition
- How many external calls?:   5
- What is the overall line coverage percentage provided by your tests?:  60%
- Is there a need to understand a separate part of the codebase / get context in order to audit this part of the protocol?:   False
- Please describe required context:
- Does it use an oracle?:  Chainlink
- Does the token conform to the ERC20 standard?:
- Are there any novel or unique curve logic or mathematical models?: None - order books baby! Matching engine has some maths
- Does it use a timelock function?:
- Is it an NFT?:
- Does it have an AMM?:
- Is it a fork of a popular project?:
- Does it use rollups?:   True
- Is it multi-chain?:
- Does it use a side-chain?:

Tests and Installation

Install dependencies

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/code-423n4/2023-04-rubicon # clone the repo with HTTPS
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:code-423n4/2023-04-rubicon.git # clone the repo with SSH
git submodule update --init --recursive # Updating with submodule if the repo was cloned without `--recurse-submodules`
npm i
yarn install # install deps
yarn run test # run tests
yarn run compile # compile

OR

# Cloning the repo using HTTPS
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/code-423n4/2023-04-rubicon
# Cloning the repo using SSH
git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:code-423n4/2023-04-rubicon.git
# Updating with submodule if the repo was cloned without `--recurse-submodules`
git submodule update --init --recursive
# install deps
npm i
# run tests
npm run test 
# compile
npm run compile 

Hardhat

yarn run test # run the test suite
yarn run compile # compile contracts

OR

npm run test # run the test suite
npm run compile # compile contracts

Foundry

forge install
forge test # run the test suite
forge build # compile the contracts