Now that the dust has settled after the market wiped out nearly $20B, it’s time to look at how Nolus held up under one of the toughest stress tests in DeFi history
1️⃣ Protocol Resilience
Nolus faced its biggest real-world trial yet and held strong
From a total position value of $2.61M before the crash:
→ $146K (5.6%) were partial liquidations
→ $129K (5%) were full liquidations
Exceptionally low rates given the market conditions
2️⃣ Smarter Price Feeds
The Nolus oracle applies a 10-minute EMA (Exponential Moving Average) to trim outliers. For instance, $ATOM printed $2.78 on Nolus — while some CEXs hit $0.001
This design prevented unnecessary liquidations and protected users’ positions
3️⃣ The Market Anomaly Guard (MAG) protected $610K from wrongful liquidation (~23.4% of total protocol value). Funds that would’ve been wiped elsewhere stayed intact here
4️⃣ Infrastructure
Even as markets broke structure, the network, relayers, and oracle feeders ran flawlessly
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