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
- 7.08 USDC (shortened; full value 7.088100974117822012944700236817040766379920825624 USDC)Limited by liquidation depth
- Depth within 5%
- buy801.53 USDC (shortened; full value 801.5301962380977806847651855017 USDC)sell4.63 USDC (shortened; full value 4.634274067276887923574517195284607474722652871984 USDC)
- Cost to move +50%
- 787.72 USDC (shortened; full value 787.7233777068 USDC)Reachable through the order book
- Checks
- 6 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
- 3.94 USDC (shortened; full value 3.9481653231485995341722784197 USDC)
- Highest
- 810.45 USDC (shortened; full value 810.4549647813047105771660642778 USDC)
- 2% from mid
- 8.36 USDC (shortened; full value 8.3621744739620881358090125904 USDC)
- 5% from mid
- 801.53 USDC (shortened; full value 801.5301962380977806847651855017 USDC)
- 10% from mid
- 810.43 USDC (shortened; full value 810.4345447192060470737842769877 USDC)
Checks
MANIPULATION_CHEAPMANIPULATION_RATIO_LOWHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_EXTREMETHIN_DEPTH_5PCTHOLDER_CONCENTRATION_HIGHZERO_DEPTH_2PCTNot 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
- 787.72 USDC (shortened; full value 787.7233777068 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
- 787.72 USDC (shortened; full value 787.7233777068 USDC)
The move, plus the genuine volume an averaging oracle forces an attacker to outweigh