Seer Module
The arbiter of collateral prices
The Seer module acts as a coordinator of individual oracle modules, reading the price of the underlying collateral tokens of yangs from the adapter modules of oracles and submitting them to the Shrine.
In order for an oracle to be onboarded to the Seer, an adapter module needs to be implemented that conforms to the IOracle interface. This abstracts away the individualized differences between different oracle designs and implementations, and lets the Seer obtain the prices from multiple sources.
Therefore, the adapter module for each oracle is also responsible for the parameters that determine whether a price is valid, and whether a given price is valid.
An advantage of this modular design is the ability to build different mechanisms for price determination for each oracle based on its capabilities as well as different considerations depending on their priority in the protocol.
For example, the adapter for Pragma adopts a pessimistic design that takes the lower of the spot price and the 7-days TWAP price. As the primary oracle, this lets the protocol prioritize robustness against price manipulation attacks and safeguarding against volatility.
The Seer module is designed with simplicity in mind and does not perform any further manipulation of prices obtained from an oracle. If the price from an oracle is invalid, then it will look to the next fallback oracle, if any.
Description of key functions
update_prices: fetch the earliest valid price for each of theyangs in Shrine from the list of oracles according to their priority, and update the price in Shrine.
Calculation of `yang` price
It is important to note that the price of a yang may be different from the price of its underlying collateral token. As the concept of yang is unique to the Shrine, oracles will return the price of a yang's underlying collateral token instead. The Seer is responsible for calculating the yang price by multiplying the underlying collateral token's price by the conversion rate of a yang to its underlying collateral token.
Conditions for triggering a price update
There are two possible ways in which a price update can be triggered:
sufficient time has elapsed from the last attempt to update prices, whether successful or not; or
the caller has been granted access to call
update_prices, bypassing the requirement in (1).
Option (2) is intended to enable price updates when redistributions occur to ensure that the post-redistribution price correctly reflects any appreciation in the conversion rate of yangs to their underlying collateral tokens from the rebasing of redistributed troves' yangs. This is important because otherwise troves that are attributed with redistributed debt would have a lower LTV.
Supported Oracles
At launch, the protocol will rely on Pragma as the primary oracle and Switchboard as the fallback oracle. More fallback oracles may be added as and when they are available on Starknet.
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