Breaking: Aave’s $27M Oracle Glitch Forces Mass Compensation After wstETH Liquidations
On Tuesday, March 18, 2026, the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Aave faced a critical technical incident that forced approximately $27 million in liquidations. A configuration error in the external Capo risk-oracle system triggered the mass liquidation of wrapped staked Ether (wstETH) positions. Consequently, the protocol’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) announced immediate plans to compensate […]
