XAU 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
- 12.60 USDC (shortened; full value 12.601617150002128430125 USDC)Limited by manipulation cost
- Depth within 5%
- buy40.69 USDC (shortened; full value 40.699572970070773743736383729 USDC)sell0 USDC
- Cost to move +50%
- 50.40 USDC (shortened; full value 50.4064686000085137205 USDC)Reachable through the order book
- Checks
- 3 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
- 5.44 USDC (shortened; full value 5.4406898963767407506532614629 USDC)
- Highest
- 101.98 USDC (shortened; full value 101.9880913647358796361361433533 USDC)
- 2% from mid
- 5.44 USDC (shortened; full value 5.4406898963767407506532614629 USDC)
- 5% from mid
- 13.50 USDC (shortened; full value 13.5026719213659956305404721342 USDC)
- 10% from mid
- 26.68 USDC (shortened; full value 26.6875002853460744061793056853 USDC)
Checks
MANIPULATION_CHEAPTHIN_DEPTH_5PCTZERO_DEPTH_2PCTPRICE_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
- 50.40 USDC (shortened; full value 50.4064686000085137205 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
- 50.40 USDC (shortened; full value 50.4064686000085137205 USDC)
The move, plus the genuine volume an averaging oracle forces an attacker to outweigh