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What is Haircut Ratio?
Updated over 4 months ago

BIT calculates the total USD collateral of a unified margin (UM) account based on currency haircut ratios*. The higher the haircut ratio of a currency, the lower the conversion rate of that currency as collateral.

* Which are measured against USD

Based on the risk profile of each currency, BIT classifies them into different tiers, click here for more information

Example:

Assuming that the assets of user A's account are as follows, and the BCH haircut ratio is 5%, then when the user's BCH equity is 100 and the USD index price is 300, the effective collateral value is 28,500 USD.

Currency

Quantity/Equity

Currency Haircut Ratio

USD Index Price

Discounted Collateral in USD

BTC

3.136088934

0.02

37496.76318

115241.3204

FLOKI

14000

1

0.000032118265

0

IOTX

5

1

0.02507838032

0

PEPE

100000

1

0.000001109749128

0

RSS3

4

1

0.1497739099

0

USDT

347974.9709

0.001

1.000296667

347730.1252

Total: 462971.4456

The collateral calculation formula for UM is as follows:

3.136088934×37496.76318×(1−0.02)+34974.9709×1.000296667×(1−0.01)=462971.4456

The remaining haircut is valued at zero after a 10% discount.

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