Original sourcecryptoslate.com
Summary
On-chain perpetuals platform Ostium suffered a five-minute anomaly during which an attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep relay to submit future-timestamped price data, creating fake profits and triggering large payouts. Security firms estimate vault liquidity losses between $11.9 million and $24 m…
Key points
- Analyzing security design flaws in on-chain derivatives is highly valuable for teams developing similar products.
- This attack exposed that without price and time validation, an authorized signer model can drain vaults if a single node is compromised.
- Teams building on-chain perpetuals should immediately check oracle data reasonableness and timestamps, adding rate limiting and circuit breakers; investors should recognize such platform vault risks far exceed those of centralized exchanges.
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