Liquidations on Aave and the Role of OEV-Share

By API3
Jan 16, 2024, 9:38 AM
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Liquidations on Aave's V2 market on Ethereum Mainnet have been resulting in significant revenue leakage.​ Searchers typically give up 99% of their revenue to validators, with the majority going to builders who include their transactions.​ The introduction of OEV-Share aims to solve this issue by allowing liquidators to compete for oracle order flow, enabling dApps like Aave to recoup up to 99.​9% of the incentives paid out.​ This would significantly improve protocol performance and help capture more value for the dApps themselves.​

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Another high-quality MEV report by @MonocerosVen, including an overview of liquidations and the role of searchers in capturing value in DeFi. Here's how OEV Share can change the liquidation landscape to improve protocol performance: 🧵👇

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dApps are leaking a lot of value due to MEV. @aave paid 130 ETH of a users funds to a validator for this liquidation execution. With OEV-Share, the user could have received that 130 ETH in a single transaction. All dApps are going to need MEV solutions. eigenphi.io/mev/ethereum/t…

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