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.
USDC Finally Beats USDT: How Solana’s Throughput and a Political Shift Reordered Stablecoin Flows
USDC handled about $18.3 trillion in transfers in 2025, topping USDT’s roughly $13.3 trillion and reshaping how stablecoins moved on-chain. The headline is not about which token was “bigger,” but about which one was used more aggressively for settlement-style throughput.