VAQM against USDC — what depth stands behind this price?
Risk band
Critical
partial confidence
A floor: the real band can only be worse.
- Max safe collateral
- 9.12 USDC (shortened; full value 9.123776520985568267146290451789532370557559490092 USDC)Limited by liquidation depth
- Depth within 5%
- buy8.83 USDC (shortened; full value 8.8341741943003371507244865131 USDC)sell9.00 USDC (shortened; full value 9.003664397945094660918822742303641046335810336226 USDC)
- Cost to move +50%
- 764.76 USDC (shortened; full value 764.76460592322 USDC)Reachable through the order book
- Checks
- 7 triggered3 not evaluated
History
Buy-side depth
What an order can absorb before the price moves against a buyer. The rungs are nested, so one scale covers all three.
Higher at the end of the window than at its start
- Lowest
- 3.55 USDC (shortened; full value 3.5580447395471085112563127872 USDC)
- Highest
- 782.22 USDC (shortened; full value 782.2250039617836406135651331185 USDC)
- 2% from mid
- 3.55 USDC (shortened; full value 3.5595919505166790345736033473 USDC)
- 5% from mid
- 8.83 USDC (shortened; full value 8.8341741943003371507244865131 USDC)
- 10% from mid
- 782.22 USDC (shortened; full value 782.2250039617836406135651331185 USDC)
Checks
MANIPULATION_CHEAPMANIPULATION_RATIO_LOWPRICE_SOURCE_CONFLICTSPREAD_EXTREMEHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_EXTREMETHIN_DEPTH_5PCTHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_HIGHNot evaluated3
- No genuine trade in 30 days
- No genuine trade in 7 days
- Volume may be wash traded
Evidence
The figures behind the verdict, as the engine served them.
An averaging oracle makes an attacker outweigh genuine trading as well as move the book. A market with no genuine volume has no such defence.
- Cost of a 50% move, order book only
- 764.76 USDC (shortened; full value 764.76460592322 USDC)
The target is reachable through the order book
- Genuine volume in the oracle window
- 0 USDC
Over the last 900 seconds (15 minutes), after the genuine-trade filter
- Cost against genuine volume
- not computed
Below 1, moving the price is cheaper than all genuine trading across the window. Not computed when there was no genuine volume or the target is unreachable
- Total attack cost
- 764.76 USDC (shortened; full value 764.76460592322 USDC)
The move, plus the genuine volume an averaging oracle forces an attacker to outweigh