Market Manipulation

ASTER’s collapse from $2.42 to $0.54 exposed extreme supply concentration and prompted a Strategic Reserve Buyback Fund. This analysis breaks down the evidence, buyback mechanics, regulatory risks, and practical scenarios for retail holders.

An alleged market-maker account compromise on Binance ignited a BROCCOLI rally that a trader converted into roughly $1M in profits. This article reconstructs the timeline, the technical weak points that enabled the exploit, and concrete controls exchanges, custodians, and counterparties should adopt.

An investigative post-mortem of the coordinated attack on Hyperliquid that paid ~$3M to force a multi-million-dollar perpetuals loss and the related POPCAT crash. We reconstruct plausible on-chain signals, explain perp-DEX mechanics that amplify contagion, and give practical mitigations for traders and protocol designers.