💔 Trader Loses $50M in $AAVE Swap Blunder
📅 Date: March 12, 2026
💰 Amount: $50.4M USDT → AAVE
⚡ What Happened
📱 Trader tried swapping $50.4M USDT → AAVE on Aave app via CoW Protocol, Uniswap V3 & SushiSwap.
⚠️ Warnings of extreme slippage appeared on mobile — the trader accepted anyway.
🤖 MEV bots & block builders captured most of the value. No hack involved.
🔥 Result
Received only ~327 AAVE tokens (~$36k) instead of millions.
💸 Loss: ~$50M — purely execution + liquidity problem.
🔍 Why It Happened
💧 Low liquidity pools couldn’t handle a $50M swap.
📊 High slippage tolerance made the trade execute at terrible rates.
🤖 MEV bots profited by front-running & sandwich attacks.
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