Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun
Zero Knowledge
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Oracle Manipulation
The recent cream attack and the almost ave attack are effectively oracle manipulation attacks. You manipulate an oracle causal liquidation, and then sort of take the other side of that indirectly. I mean, it's a lot more complicated for those assets, but the acids that were used both of those. But oracles are certainly a source of vulnerabilities. And i think one of the reasons unsop stood out to us in 20 19 was really this fact that somehow, in spite of there being no oracle, it was able to effectively induce market participants to make it a good oracle where there is enough arbitreasure trading against it. Whereas protocols that tryd to be explicit oracles
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