Friday, March 13, The $50 Million Fat Finger Fiasco

Key Takeaways

• Hyperliquid surged: open interest rose to $1.26B from $500M, platform cap raised tenfold to $10B, crude perpetuals topped $1B daily, buybacks exceeded $1.3B and DEX perp share jumped past 10%.
• A fat-fingered Aave swap routed via CalSwap turned a $50M input into about $36,000 output; CalSwap executed a signed order despite extreme slippage warnings the user confirmed.
• MEV and oracle fallout: an MEV bot extracted nearly $10M in ETH, the user lost principal and Aave plans to refund about $600K; a misconfigured oracle undervalued WSTETH causing ~$27M wrongful liquidations and liquidation bots captured 499 ETH.
• Anthropic launched Claude CodeReview to auto-scan pull requests for logic and security, suggest fixes directly in GitHub, dispatch multi-agent reviewers, shift engineers to strategy; reviews cost about $15–$25 and the tool is in research preview for teams.
• Claude now shares full conversation context across Excel and PowerPoint, lets one prompt chain flow between apps, and generates interactive charts, graphs, and diagrams inline to streamline data-to-presentation work.
• Interactive visuals accept direct prompts, pull live data (weather, markets) to power what-if scenarios, convert passive reading into active exploration, and encourage listeners to subscribe, comment, and hit the bell.

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