Alameda liquidators lost $72,000 on DeFi lending platform Aave after getting liquidated themselves while attempting to recover funds for creditors.
The liquidators were trying to close the position and in the process first removed the extra collateral used for the position, putting it at risk of liquidation. Crypto data platform Arkham noted in a report shared with The Block that over the course of nine days, the position was liquidated twice for a total of 4.05 aWBTC, a token used on Aave that is backed by bitcoin.
These funds will no longer be recoverable for creditors.
The data is based on wallets that have been tagged as relating to Alameda by The Block’s Vice President of Research Larry Cermak and used to label wallets on Ethereum block explorer Etherscan. Funds from these wallets have been swept into a single wallet controlled by a multi-sig, which now holds $19.6 million of ether and $140 million of various tokens on Ethereum.
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