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dYdX Price Manipulation: $9.00M Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

About $9m from the dYdX v3 insurance fund were used to fill gaps on liquidations processed in the YFI market, and the CEO said this was pretty clearly a targeted attack against dYdX, including market manipulation of the entire $YFI market.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://twitter.com/dYdX/status/1725921897848914353 (opens in a new tab)

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