Trader’s $50.4M AAVE Swap Reduced to $36K After Liquidity Vacuum and MEV Extraction
A single oversized trade turned into one of the clearest recent examples of execution risk in decentralized finance. A trader routed a $50.4 million USDT order to buy AAVE and ended up receiving only about $36,200 worth of the token after extreme slippage and on-chain extraction tore through the transaction.