Surplus Auction House
For more details, refer to the SurplusAuctionHouse.sol contract.
1. Introduction
The Surplus Auction House is tasked with auctioning the system's surplus coins in exchange for protocol tokens. A fraction of these protocol tokens is burnt to create a deflationary effect, while the rest is transferred to a specified target address. The auction employs an ascending bidding model: a fixed number of system coins are up for auction, and participants bid by offering increasingly higher amounts of protocol tokens.
2. Contract Details
Key Methods:
Public
increaseBidSize: Enables users to participate in the auction by offering higher amounts of protocol tokens, which are transferred during this operation.restartAuction: Resets an expired auction that has not received any bids, making it available for new bids.settleAuction: Finalizes the auction, transferring the system coins to the winning bidder.terminateAuctionPrematurely: Aborts an auction before its scheduled completion. This action returns the protocol tokens to the highest bidder but is only possible when the contract is deactivated.
Authorized
startAuction: Initiates a new surplus auction.