Compound liquidator makes $4M as oracles post inflated Dai price
DAI reached a price of $1.3 on Uniswap and Coinbase, the two exchanges used by Compound's oracles. The crypto market suffered a powerful crash on Thursday morning UTC, which sent prices of major currencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) tumbling in excess of 10%.When traders rush for the exits, the price of stablecoins generally increase as the demand for stability rises. In today’s crash, however, the effect became particularly pronounced on Dai (DAI), which briefly traded for $1.3 between 7 and 8 AM UTC.Dai/USD price on Coinbase, courtesy of TradingViewMost notably, DAI traded at....
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