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CoW Swap Points to Legacy Code and Solver Failures in $50M Loss That Aave Attributes to Illiquid Market

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Monday, 16 March 2026·Source: The Defiant·US·independent

CoW Swap Points to Legacy Code and Solver Failures in $50M Loss That Aave Attributes to Illiquid Market — Image via The Defiant

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What happened: While Aave blamed an illiquid market, CoW Swap identified a stale gas ceiling, silent solver failures, and a possible mempool leak that turned a bad trade...

Cross-source context: Decrypt highlights bitrefill, which lets users swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other crypto assets for gift cards, disclosed a breach that took place on March 1. r/stocks highlights a war that cuts off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, energy infrastructure getting constantly hammered, flip-flopping tariff walls, a job market looking soft, inflation...

What to watch next: movement around attributes, failures.

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Original Source Text

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The Defiant(center)

While Aave blamed an illiquid market, CoW Swap identified a stale gas ceiling, silent solver failures, and a possible mempool leak that turned a bad trade into the worst execution loss in DeFi history.

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Decrypt(center)

Bitrefill, which lets users swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other crypto assets for gift cards, disclosed a breach that took place on March 1.

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Decrypt(center)

Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation prohibiting prediction markets that hinge on government action or pre-determined outcomes.

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r/stocks(lean-left)

A war that cuts off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, energy infrastructure getting constantly hammered, flip-flopping tariff walls, a job market looking soft, inflation running hotter than expected, and billions of dollars poured into AI that seem to be going down the drain the list of bad new

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Decrypt(center)

Prediction market platform Kalshi was hit with 20 criminal charges in Arizona, which alleged that it's an "illegal gambling operation."

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Bloomberg(center)

Brazil’s Treasury intervened in the local bond market for a second straight day, announcing fresh auctions to both buy back and sell government debt to support liquidity and stabilize trading as the surge in crude prices ripples through global markets.

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Story Context

Decrypt

Bitrefill, which lets users swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other crypto assets for gift cards, disclosed a breach that took place on March 1.

r/stocks

A war that cuts off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, energy infrastructure getting constantly hammered, flip-flopping tariff walls, a job market looking soft, inflation...

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Swarm Claim

CoW Swap Points to Legacy Code and Solver Failures in $50M Loss That Aave Attributes to Illiquid Market.

The Defiant · link

CoW Swap Points to Legacy Code and Solver Failures in $50M Loss That Aave Attributes to Illiquid Market

While Aave blamed an illiquid market, CoW Swap identified a stale gas ceiling, silent solver failures, and a possible mempool leak that turned a bad trade...

Decrypt · link

Crypto Gift Card Platform Bitrefill Discloses Hack, Points Finger at North Korean Groups

Bitrefill, which lets users swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other crypto assets for gift cards, disclosed a breach that took place on March 1.

Decrypt · link

Democrats Target Prediction Market Insider Trading, Claim Trump Allies Are Profiting

Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation prohibiting prediction markets that hinge on government action or pre-determined outcomes.

r/stocks · link

Why the Hell Is the Market Pumping on All This Bad News?

A war that cuts off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply, energy infrastructure getting constantly hammered, flip-flopping tariff walls, a job market looking soft, inflation...

The Wire — Other Sources

Decrypt

Crypto Gift Card Platform Bitrefill Discloses Hack, Points Finger at North Korean Groups

Bitrefill, which lets users swap Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other crypto assets for gift cards, disclosed a breach that took place on March 1.

Source ›

Decrypt

Democrats Target Prediction Market Insider Trading, Claim Trump Allies Are Profiting

Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation prohibiting prediction markets that hinge on government action or pre-determined outcomes.

Source ›

r/stocks

Why the Hell Is the Market Pumping on All This Bad News?

Source ›

Decrypt

Arizona Files Charges Against Kalshi, Calling Prediction Market an 'Illegal Gambling Operation'

Prediction market platform Kalshi was hit with 20 criminal charges in Arizona, which alleged that it's an "illegal gambling operation."

Source ›

Bloomberg

Brazil Steps Up Bond Market Intervention as Oil Upends Rates

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