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
- 6.33 USDC (shortened; full value 6.3313251752876855425240735047748500249980903596875 USDC)Limited by liquidation depth
- Depth within 5%
- buy803.05 USDC (shortened; full value 803.0530501609853829377637086153 USDC)sell3.12 USDC (shortened; full value 3.12066128303966662730013558355301303743591175865 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
- 6.25 USDC (shortened; full value 6.2545570087745080617526804199 USDC)
- Highest
- 810.81 USDC (shortened; full value 810.8191193397353701118462487603 USDC)
- 2% from mid
- 8.74 USDC (shortened; full value 8.7467245383148416658303399188 USDC)
- 5% from mid
- 801.91 USDC (shortened; full value 801.9147556201528378328671311904 USDC)
- 10% from mid
- 810.81 USDC (shortened; full value 810.8191193397353701118462487603 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