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Compound III: a single-borrow-asset market

Compound III. Compound Labs.

Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.

A reading of the project's public design document. Not a copy, not a benchmark, and not an offer.

Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.
Evidence
Primary paper
Re-measured
No
Assumptions
3
Records linked
3

01 Claim ledger

What the paper is allowed to say

Each row is a sentence already in the study. The status is the same on every row: a model claim, not a live measurement.

  1. Claim 01 · Paper model

    The defect

    The 2019 Compound paper is the money-market design. Comet, or III, is a later market. Quoting one for the other misstates the risk.

  2. Claim 02 · Paper model

    The proposal

    Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.

  3. Claim 03 · Paper model

    The mechanism

    A user supplies collateral and borrows the base asset. They do not borrow a basket unless the docs you opened say so.

  4. Claim 04 · Paper model

    The bound

    No rate is stated here.

02 Three cuts

Observation, model, falsifier

A desk does not stop at the summary. Each claim is cut three ways, using only this study's own assumptions and checks. Nothing here is a new figure.

  1. 01 The defect

    Observation

    What the study says

    The 2019 Compound paper is the money-market design. Comet, or III, is a later market. Quoting one for the other misstates the risk.

    Model

    What has to hold

    You are reading Compound's current docs for the III market, not the 2019 white paper.

    Falsifier

    What would retire it

    What is the single borrow asset in the deployment you are reading?

  2. 02 The proposal

    Observation

    What the study says

    Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.

    Model

    What has to hold

    You are reading Compound's current docs for the III market, not the 2019 white paper.

    Falsifier

    What would retire it

    What is the single borrow asset in the deployment you are reading?

  3. 03 The mechanism

    Observation

    What the study says

    A user supplies collateral and borrows the base asset. They do not borrow a basket unless the docs you opened say so.

    Model

    What has to hold

    No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.

    Falsifier

    What would retire it

    What is the single borrow asset in the deployment you are reading?

  4. 04 The bound

    Observation

    What the study says

    No rate is stated here.

    Model

    What has to hold

    You are reading Compound's current docs for the III market, not the 2019 white paper.

    Falsifier

    What would retire it

    What is the single borrow asset in the deployment you are reading?

03 Sequence

One action, as an operating tape

  1. 01A user supplies collateral and borrows the base asset. They do not borrow a basket unless the docs you opened say so.
  2. 02The interest model is a parameter of the base asset. It is not stated here.
  3. 03Liquidation uses the oracle and the collateral factors the docs list. Those factors are the risk policy.

04 Load-bearing

The argument, and where a pitch drops it

  1. What the name has to mean

    The cut

    Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.

    Why it carries weight

    If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.

    Where it is dropped

    The original Compound study remains in the library. This note is the later market.

  2. What actually moves

    The cut

    The interest model is a parameter of the base asset. It is not stated here.

    Why it carries weight

    If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.

    Where it is dropped

    No rate is stated here.

  3. What a later deployment may change

    The cut

    Liquidation uses the oracle and the collateral factors the docs list. Those factors are the risk policy.

    Why it carries weight

    If this cut is skipped, the paper's name is being used without the mechanism that makes the name mean anything.

    Where it is dropped

    A governance change to a collateral factor is a change in risk, not a change in branding.

05 Register

What has to be true

  • Model · Not re-measured

    You are reading Compound's current docs for the III market, not the 2019 white paper.

  • Model · Not re-measured

    The document is the one at the source URL. A marketing page with the same brand is not this text.

  • Model · Not re-measured

    No price, supply, yield, or adoption figure is added by this desk.

06 Divergence

What happened after the paper

A governance change to a collateral factor is a change in risk, not a change in branding.

A later client, parameter set, or reward formula is a different object. Cite this paper for the mechanism. Cite a primary release for the network. This desk has not re-run the proof.

07 Pre-mortem

What to check before you use the idea

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08 Anatomy

The paper, in the order a builder needs

The problem it names

The 2019 Compound paper is the money-market design. Comet, or III, is a later market. Quoting one for the other misstates the risk.

What the design proposes

  • A user supplies collateral and borrows the base asset. They do not borrow a basket unless the docs you opened say so.
  • The interest model is a parameter of the base asset. It is not stated here.
  • Liquidation uses the oracle and the collateral factors the docs list. Those factors are the risk policy.

How the mechanism is specified

  • A user supplies collateral and borrows the base asset. They do not borrow a basket unless the docs you opened say so.
  • The interest model is a parameter of the base asset. It is not stated here.
  • Liquidation uses the oracle and the collateral factors the docs list. Those factors are the risk policy.

What this page does not treat as proven

  • No rate is stated here.
  • The original Compound study remains in the library. This note is the later market.
  • A governance change to a collateral factor is a change in risk, not a change in branding.

Why the desk still reads it

Compound III, as documented, is a market with one borrow asset and many collateral assets, rather than the cross-borrow matrix of the earlier white paper.

09 Lexicon

Terms, opened into the record

Base asset
The asset that is borrowed in this market design.
Collateral factor
The fraction of collateral value that counts. It is a governance parameter.

10 Repository

Every linked record on this page

Underlined words open a page that already exists: a concept, a protocol profile, a failure record, or another paper. If a word is not underlined, this desk does not have a record for it.

This is Blockchain Lab's reading of a public design paper. It is not the paper, not a copy of it, and not an offer of tokens, equity, custody or a partnership. Later network behaviour can diverge from the text. Nothing here is investment, legal or technical advice.

Research status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026. This is a reading of a public paper, not investment, legal or security advice.