Oval: Capturing Liquidation Oracle Extractable Value for Lending Protocols
Oval: Capturing Liquidation Oracle Extractable Value for Lending Protocols
🔒 Liquidation Season Profits
Oval is a new application built on Flashbots' MEV-Share infrastructure that allows lending protocols to capture Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) generated during liquidations. When Chainlink price feeds update and trigger potential liquidations, it creates OEV. Oval uses MEV-Share's order flow auctions to allow searchers to bid for the right to backrun these price updates and execute liquidations. The winning bid proceeds are then distributed to the lending protocol and oracle providers. This system promotes capital efficiency by ensuring liquidators are compensated based on market demand, redirecting up to 90% of OEV back to protocols. Over $2.5M has been lost to OEV on Aave and Compound in the past 30 days alone.
Almost 300 ETH is lost to MEV every day. This happens at the expense of everyone in the Ethereum ecosystem. How can we capture MEV and distribute the profits fairly instead? MEV Capture is about building tools that capture MEV and redirect it to the protocols and users that
Liquidation season is upon us. Last week, we witnessed over $6.7 million in liquidation volume across Aave and Compound, totaling almost $9.6 million over the past 30 days. About $2.5 million has been lost to OEV because of this.
Lending protocols can capture liquidation OEV with Oval. This is possible because Oval is built on MEV-Share infrastructure developed by Flashbots. Here’s how it works. Flashbots’ MEV-Share is an open-source protocol designed to capture MEV. It achieves this by efficiently
Over the last 7 days, 404 liquidations happened on @aave and @compoundfinance. These protocols paid $2.3M+ in liquidation incentives, 76% of which were lost to MEV. This is why MEV capture is crucial. More liquidations will happen in this bull market. Be prepared with Oval.
Start capturing OEV now with Oval. 🥚 Oval is a plug-and play tool that any EVM lending protocol can quickly integrate without making any contract adjustments. Simply plug in Oval and start getting paid to use your oracle. x.com/UMAprotocol/st…
Almost 300 ETH is lost to MEV every day. This happens at the expense of everyone in the Ethereum ecosystem. How can we capture MEV and distribute the profits fairly instead? MEV Capture is about building tools that capture MEV and redirect it to the protocols and users that
UMA Surpasses Monthly 2022-2023 Assertion Volume in Single Day
UMA has already exceeded its typical monthly assertion volume from 2022/2023 on just the first day of October 2025. **Key metrics:** - 2022/2023: ~500 assertions per month - October 1, 2025: Already surpassed 500 assertions - September 2025: Over 22,000 assertions (20% of all-time total) - Total milestone: 100,000+ assertions reached This dramatic acceleration shows UMA's oracle network experiencing unprecedented growth, with daily volumes now matching what previously took entire months to achieve.
🔮 Oracle Milestone
**UMA's Optimistic Oracle reaches $50 billion milestone** The decentralized oracle has secured over $50 billion in Total Transaction Value across its ecosystem: - **Across Protocol**: $31.6B in cross-chain transactions - **Polymarket**: $18.7B in prediction market volume - **oSnap**: $111M in governance transactions The platform has processed **170 million transactions** total, doubling its value from $25B earlier this year. This growth highlights increasing adoption of optimistic oracle technology for securing cross-chain bridges, prediction markets, and DAO governance systems.
🔒 UMA Secures Two Top Polygon Protocols
**UMA's optimistic oracle technology** now secures two of the top ten protocols operating on Polygon's network. This milestone demonstrates **growing adoption** of UMA's oracle solutions within the Polygon ecosystem. The protocols join other major platforms like Polymarket in leveraging UMA's security infrastructure. - UMA provides optimistic oracle services for decentralized applications - Two major Polygon protocols now rely on UMA's security model - Reflects broader trend of oracle adoption in DeFi The integration highlights **UMA's expanding role** in securing critical Web3 infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks.
Across Protocol V4 Announces Integration with Succinct Labs and UMA Protocol
Across Protocol has unveiled Version 4 of their bridge solution, marking a significant technical upgrade to their infrastructure. - Integration with Succinct Labs brings enhanced zero-knowledge proof capabilities - Security framework reinforced through UMA Protocol's optimistic oracle system - New version aims to improve cross-chain transaction efficiency The collaboration represents a strategic enhancement of Across's bridging architecture, combining Succinct's ZK technology with UMA's battle-tested security mechanisms.
UMA Dispute Voting Reaches 333 Unique Commits with 23.4M Tokens Staked
The latest UMA dispute voting round demonstrated significant participation with **333 unique commit addresses** and over **23.4M $UMA tokens** staked. This continues the protocol's growth trajectory from Q4 2024, when it first achieved an average of 100 commits per vote, later peaking at 462 commits in a single round. - 333 unique commit addresses - 23,484,787.52 $UMA tokens staked - Consistent growth from Q4 2024 Participate in securing truth onchain at [vote.uma.xyz](https://vote.uma.xyz/)