Someone tried converting $220k USDC to USDT on-chain and ended up with just $5k—losing $215k in a single transaction. That's decades of accumulation gone in seconds.
On-chain MEV is absolutely ruthless. One miscalculated swap, one slip, and everything vanishes before you can even blink. The MEV bots front-run faster than you can react.
It's a hard reminder of how fragile things can be in crypto. You can be cautious for years, then one bad move changes everything. The risk is real, and it's instant.
Makes you think twice about every transaction you put on chain.
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TokenSherpa
· 6h ago
ngl this is why i've been hammering the slippage tolerance thing in every governance discussion—empirically speaking, most users just don't understand their own exposure vectors here
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FloorSweeper
· 6h ago
lmao $220k to $5k... that's not a slip that's just pure incompetence fr. no way you're moving that much without checking slippage settings first ngl
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AirdropSweaterFan
· 7h ago
Damn, 215k just disappeared like that. This is why I still tread carefully when degen...
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GasFeeSobber
· 7h ago
Oh my, how unlucky can you get... Lost 215k just like that?
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QuorumVoter
· 7h ago
Oh my god, $215k just disappeared... That's why I get so nervous with every trade now.
Morning fam
This one's brutal to witness
Someone tried converting $220k USDC to USDT on-chain and ended up with just $5k—losing $215k in a single transaction. That's decades of accumulation gone in seconds.
On-chain MEV is absolutely ruthless. One miscalculated swap, one slip, and everything vanishes before you can even blink. The MEV bots front-run faster than you can react.
It's a hard reminder of how fragile things can be in crypto. You can be cautious for years, then one bad move changes everything. The risk is real, and it's instant.
Makes you think twice about every transaction you put on chain.