Decentralized exchange dYdX published a post-mortem on an Oct. 10 outage that halted the dYdX Chain for roughly eight hours during the largest crypto liquidation event in history. The team attributed the halt to a misordered code process and prolonged validator delays restarting oracle sidecar services, which led to stale oracle data and incorrect trade/liquidation prices once operations resumed.

Solana has overtaken Ethereum in daily decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume, signaling a notable liquidity rotation in DeFi. Data shows Solana posted $5.84 billion in 24-hour DEX volume versus Ethereum’s $5.75 billion, with nearly $137 billion processed over the last 30 days. This jump underscores Solana’s rising market share in on-chain trading as its high-throughput infrastructure attracts high-frequency traders and automated market makers.

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