DeFi User Loses $50.4M in One Swap as MEV Bots and Protocol Failures Collide

TLDR: A DeFi user lost $50.4M swapping aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE after confirming a 99.9% price impact warning. CoW Swap’s legacy gas ceiling and solver failure forced the trade through a $73K illiquid SushiSwap pool. A mempool leak exposed the transaction, letting an MEV bot execute a sandwich attack for $9.9M profit. Titan Builder extracted ~$34M [...]

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