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Aave released an analysis of the Swap event: a user executed a token exchange operation through the CoW Swap router integrated into the Aave interface. The user attempted to exchange 50,432,688 aEthUSDT (worth approximately $5,043,270) for aEthAAVE. Due to the user's order being exceptionally large in a market with insufficient liquidity, the quotes from CoW Swap were extremely poor, and the user confirmed acceptance of the quote.It should be noted that the Aave protocol itself was never at risk, as this exchange occurred outside the protocol, through the aforementioned third-party Swap protocol. Currently, the relevant user has not contacted the Aave team. The key issue in this event was insufficient market liquidity, rather than slippage.Insufficient liquidity refers to the inability of the market to provide enough assets at a specific price to meet large orders, resulting in severe price deviations. The user's order was far larger than the available market liquidity, and the CoW Swap quote was 99.9% lower than the expected market clearing price; the adverse outcome stemmed from the user's confirmation of the quote, rather than price changes during execution.The root cause of this event was the routing of large trades in a market with insufficient liquidity, leading to extreme price shocks. The user executed the trade after confirming a clear warning on the interface. To prevent similar events, Aave Shield will be introduced in the Swap widget: it will default to blocking exchanges with price shocks exceeding 25%, and users will need to manually disable this feature to execute high-risk trades. The transaction incurred approximately $110,368 in fees, which will be refunded after user verification.

Aave released a recap of the Swap event stating that a user exchanged approximately $50.43 million aEth USDT for about $36,000 aEth AAVE through the CoW Swap route on the Aave front end, with a price impact of about 99.9%.Aave indicated that the transaction occurred within a third-party Swap protocol, and the core lending protocol was unaffected. The cause of the event was the user executing a large order in a market with extremely low liquidity and confirming a high-risk quote. Aave stated that it will launch the Aave Shield feature, which will by default block Swaps with a price impact exceeding 25%.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale "0xFF5D" withdrew 10,008 AAVE from Aave and then deposited it into Binance, worth 1.15 million dollars.

Aave founder Stani.eth announced on the X platform that Aave has released the Aave V4 Ethereum mainnet activation governance proposal. Aave V4 will introduce a modular architecture, where the liquidity center Liquidity Hubs holds shared liquidity, while Spokes define independent lending environments with governance restrictions. This version is also expected to launch a topology, promotion paths, implementation and control models, as well as an initial asset range for risk parameterization. Once the community reaches a consensus on this proposal, a Snapshot will be submitted for voting.

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, the investment firm Blockchain Capital has transferred all of its 216,000 AAVE to Coinbase Prime, worth approximately $24.8 million.The firm had accumulated about 233,000 AAVE from October 2020 to March 2023, with an average price of around $94, and has long been one of the major institutional holders of AAVE. Previously, near the price peak of AAVE in December 2024, Blockchain Capital sold 16,900 AAVE through FalconX, worth about $5.04 million. After this transfer, its early holdings have basically been fully exited.

According to Arkham data, at 01:25, 216,300 AAVE (worth approximately $24,799,900) was transferred from Blockchain Capital to an anonymous address (starting with 0x5329...). Subsequently, the address transferred all AAVE to Coinbase Prime.

Ethereum block builder Titan Builder earned $34.5 million in the past 24 hours, surpassing Tether ($16.43 million) to take the top spot.Earlier reports indicated that a user, while exchanging approximately $50.43 million aEthUSDT for AAVE via CoWSwap, ended up receiving only about 327 aEthAAVE, worth approximately $36,000, due to slippage exceeding 99%. Titan Builder made a profit of about $34 million.

CoW DAO responded to the incident where "a certain whale lost approximately 50.39 million dollars due to excessive slippage when exchanging aEthAAVE," stating that "no DEX, DEX aggregator, public liquidity pool, or private liquidity pool (or their combination) can execute this transaction at a price close to a reasonable level. However, preventing users from trading would deprive them of their choices and could lead to extremely poor outcomes in certain situations (such as market crashes).Such transactions indicate that the DeFi user experience has not yet reached the level necessary to protect all users. The team is currently exploring how to balance strong security measures with maintaining user autonomy. We will also refund any fees paid to CoW DAO due to this transaction."According to previous news from ChainCatcher, a user lost approximately 50 million dollars in a single transaction due to slippage, and the founder of Aave stated that the interface had issued multiple warnings.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a suspected Trend Research wallet borrowed ETH through Aave and then transferred it to Binance, short-selling 27,000 ETH (57.11 million USD).This address withdrew 303 million USDC from Binance on February 11, just a few days after Trend Research transferred all ETH to Binance in February. A week ago, this address transferred 150 million USDC to Binance, with one transaction using a known Binance deposit address of Trend Research. This address is now collateralizing 100 million USDC on Aave and has borrowed 27,000 ETH, which has already been transferred to Binance.

A crypto user lost approximately $50 million in a token swap transaction on Thursday. On-chain data shows that the user exchanged about $50.43 million worth of aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE through the CoW Protocol, but due to insufficient liquidity pool depth, the transaction experienced a slippage of over 99%, ultimately resulting in the user receiving only about 327 aEthAAVE, worth approximately $36,000, with the difference being captured by arbitrage traders and network intermediaries.Aave founder Stani Kulechov posted on the X platform that the user purchased AAVE using $50 million USDT through the Aave interface. Due to the unusually large size of the single order, the interface issued an extreme slippage warning to the user and required confirmation. After accepting the warning on a mobile device, the user proceeded with the transaction.Kulechov stated that the CoW Swap router operated as expected and followed industry-standard operating procedures, but the outcome was clearly not ideal. Kulechov mentioned that Aave plans to contact the user and refund approximately $600,000 in fees charged from the transaction. Days before this incident, about $27 million in positions on Aave were liquidated, and some market participants believe that this liquidation may be related to a temporary pricing issue with wstETH.

According to Arkham data, at 06:44, 19,728.25 AAVE (worth approximately 2.19 million USD) was transferred from one anonymous address (starting with 0xAe75...) to another anonymous address (starting with 0xD283...).

Lido announced that Aave's CAPO oracle misquoted yesterday, leading to incorrect price boundaries for wstETH:USD in the AAVE market, which triggered liquidation events. There was no bad debt, and all affected users will be fully compensated.These erroneous price boundaries are unrelated to wstETH as the underlying asset and do not indicate any issues with the Lido protocol. The Lido Earn products, including stRATEGY and GGV, were not affected by this liquidation, and user funds remain secure.

According to The Block, Aave experienced a temporary oracle failure on March 10, resulting in the improper liquidation of approximately $26 million in wstETH positions.A post-mortem analysis report released by Chaos Labs, a major risk management service provider for Aave, indicated that the issue stemmed from a configuration error in the price oracle for the relevant assets (CAPO). Due to an inconsistency between the snapshot ratio and the snapshot timestamp, the oracle reported an exchange rate cap of approximately 1.1939, significantly lower than the actual market exchange rate of about 1.228, leading to erroneous liquidations of E-Mode positions.The incident affected around 34 accounts, with a total of approximately 10,938 wstETH being liquidated. Chaos Labs stated that a compensation plan is underway, which will utilize 141.5 ETH recovered from the event and up to 345 ETH from the DAO treasury to compensate affected users. The report emphasized that this incident was not a design flaw of CAPO or the off-chain risk oracle, but rather a parameter misalignment caused by on-chain configuration inconsistencies.

According to an analysis report released by Chaos Labs, the recent liquidation event of approximately $27 million in Aave was caused by a configuration issue with the CAPO risk oracle.The root cause lies in the inconsistent update constraints at the smart contract level: the snapshotRatio parameter is limited by an on-chain constraint that allows only a 3% increase every 3 days, preventing it from being updated directly from approximately 1.1572 to the target value of about 1.2282, and it can only increase to about 1.1919; meanwhile, the snapshotTimestamp was successfully updated to a timestamp from 7 days ago. This misalignment between the ratio and the timestamp led to the CAPO calculating an upper exchange rate (approximately 1.1939) that was about 2.85% lower than the actual market exchange rate, triggering the liquidation of approximately 10,938 wstETH. No bad debt was incurred by the protocol during the event.Chaos Labs and BGD Labs have immediately reduced the wstETH borrowing limit for affected instances to 1 and manually aligned the parameters to restore the exchange rate through Risk Steward. A total of 141.5 ETH has been recovered through BuilderNet, which will be used to compensate affected users, while the remaining amount will be covered by the Aave treasury. The amount expected to be temporarily compensated by the DAO is not anticipated to exceed 345 ETH.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov posted an article calling for reforms in the DAO governance model. He pointed out that the current operation of DAOs is extremely difficult, with the decision-making process slowed down by forum discussions, temperature checks, and multiple rounds of voting. At the same time, DAOs can easily become politicized, with participants forming political alliances, ultimately leading to "politicians" winning instead of builders.Kulechov advocates that governance should focus on areas that truly require collective participation, such as significant protocol changes and treasury strategies, while the rest should belong to the execution level, requiring leaders to drive it forward. He stated that Aave needs to remain agile and streamline governance processes to capture opportunities in the global lending market. Recently, the Aave community experienced governance turmoil, with core contributors BGD Labs and ACI withdrawing from the protocol due to conflicts with Aave Labs, and both sides having disagreements over the "Aave Will Win" proposal put forth by Aave Labs.

Aave founder Stani.eth posted on the X platform, stating, "The private credit market is facing pressure in a high-interest-rate environment. Since the Federal Reserve began its rate hike cycle in 2022, interest rates have rapidly risen above 5% and remained high, leading to a significant increase in capital costs for borrowing businesses and consumers.Recent data shows that several funds have experienced stock price declines and redemption pressures, such as Blue Owl Capital, which has dropped about 50% over the past year, and Blackstone's BCRED, which is facing approximately $3.7 billion in redemption requests in Q1 2026. The average BDC is trading at about a 20% discount, with yields of 10-11%, and some funds have seen default rates rise to 9%.Stani.eth proposed three risk scenarios: a single fund default can be absorbed by the system, multiple fund defaults may trigger a downturn in the credit cycle, and a complete collapse could lead to systemic risk. However, the overall private credit market has a total size of about $1.8-2 trillion, making a single fund default unlikely to cause a systemic crisis.For DeFi investors, the biggest risk is that many retail users do not understand the risks involved before putting funds into high-yield RWA. I believe RWA is the biggest opportunity for DeFi in the near term. However, my biggest concern is that institutional speculators may view DeFi as a channel to offload illiquid and distressed products that Wall Street has lost confidence in, effectively using DeFi participants as an exit liquidity.However, well-functioning on-chain private credit can provide advantages that traditional finance cannot reach. DeFi can enforce redemption windows, withdrawal limits, collateral ratios, and profit distribution rules through smart contracts, achieving transparent and immutable execution, avoiding arbitrary tightening of redemption policies by traditional fund managers. Through carefully structured RWA projects, transparent and secure investment channels can be provided between traditional finance and on-chain markets. DeFi should not become a source of exit liquidity for Wall Street."

According to Binance spot market data, there has been significant volatility. RESOLV has increased by 20.64% in the last 24 hours and is showing a rebound after hitting a low, while ARPA has decreased by 10.1% in the last 24 hours, reaching a peak before falling back.At the same time, AAVE, CHZ, FET, INJ, and SAND have all reached new lows today, with declines of 5.13%, 6.49%, 5.88%, 5.7%, and 5.67%, respectively.In addition, GUN is also showing a rebound after hitting a low, with an increase of 6.51%.

HyperEVM's native non-custodial lending protocol HypurrFi stated on platform X that there is a "rounding error" vulnerability in versions prior to Aave V3 3.5. Under specific conditions, an attacker could extract underlying tokens by repeatedly executing supply/extract and borrow/repay loop operations.The affected markets are XAUT0 and UBTC in HypurrFi Pooled. Currently, user funds are not at risk. To ensure safety, related markets have suspended new supply and lending operations, while withdrawal and repayment functions remain operational, and other markets are running normally. HypurrFi added that it quickly identified the issue on-chain through its internal monitoring system and promptly froze the affected markets. They are also collaborating with other Aave deployers and security researchers to address the issue and have invited other Aave fork projects to reach out for more security information.