Aave and CoW Swap publish dueling post-mortems after $50 million DeFi swap disaster

Aave and CoW Swap have released competing post-mortem reports following a $50 million DeFi swap disaster. CoW Swap's analysis reveals that a transaction initially submitted through a private RPC endpoint was leaked to the public mempool, contributing to the incident.

• →A $50 million DeFi swap disaster prompted both Aave and CoW Swap to publish separate post-mortem analyses.
• →CoW Swap identified that a private RPC transaction was leaked to the public mempool as a key factor in the incident.
• →The competing post-mortems suggest different perspectives on what caused the large-scale swap failure.
• →The incident highlights ongoing security and infrastructure vulnerabilities in DeFi protocols.
• →Private RPC endpoints may not provide the transaction privacy that users expect.