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
- 9.11 USDC (shortened; full value 9.112056938025193348730507972604131854276082266782 USDC)Limited by liquidation depth
- Depth within 5%
- buy8.82 USDC (shortened; full value 8.8228266084494156033317219353 USDC)sell8.99 USDC (shortened; full value 8.992099100218173436465568245663962418687030823421 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.
Lower at the end of the window than at its start
- Lowest
- 3.58 USDC (shortened; full value 3.5856820345723858018225862106 USDC)
- Highest
- 927.24 USDC (shortened; full value 927.2405979707412128932622425163 USDC)
- 2% from mid
- 3.61 USDC (shortened; full value 3.6153228061401684959183829474 USDC)
- 5% from mid
- 773.73 USDC (shortened; full value 773.7370926245209907659350323642 USDC)
- 10% from mid
- 782.49 USDC (shortened; full value 782.4983731950393245072528708615 USDC)
Checks
MANIPULATION_CHEAPTHIN_DEPTH_5PCTMANIPULATION_RATIO_LOWHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_EXTREMEHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_HIGHPRICE_SOURCE_CONFLICTSPREAD_EXTREMENot 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