🔥 Paradex Survives Flash Crash
🔥 Paradex Survives Flash Crash
⚡ When Everything Broke
Paradex faced a major stress test during Oct 10-11 market volatility when extreme price swings triggered mass liquidations.
What Went Wrong:
- Flash crash caused concurrent liquidations overwhelming the GigaLiquidator (GL)
- On-chain transaction backlog slowed position unwinding
- Chain limits were hit, halting GL trading and busting some trades
- Affected users temporarily couldn't open/close positions
Quick Response:
- Activated Cairo Native, doubling throughput within an hour
- Settled all Perp Options to reduce GL positions
- Temporarily reserved GL PnL pending audit for fairness
- Platform returned to normal operation within hours
Resolution:
- $604,225 credited back to Gigavault depositors
- $160,182 distributed to users affected by incorrect liquidations
- TVL cap restored to $60M with deposits re-enabled
- Options settlement fees refunded
Key Improvements:
- Optimized chain logic for higher position limits
- Enhanced position-limit checks to prevent trade busts
- Increased account-resync frequency
- Cairo Native permanently enabled for sustained throughput
Despite market chaos, no socialized loss backstops were triggered and the platform stayed operational throughout.
Incident Post-Mortem - Oct 10-11** What Happened On `Oct 10-11`, extreme volatility and the subsequent flash crash led to a large number of concurrent liquidations on the platform in a short period of time. This led to a large, sudden accumulation of positions on the
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