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Recently, everyone has been doing tasks like crazy during the airdrop season, as if clocking in at work. The anti-witch measures are getting stricter and stricter. As a result, many people simply start using high leverage to "speed up," but honestly, the biggest risk at this point isn't misreading the market direction—it's the oracle price feed being half a beat slow.
If the price feed is delayed, your position should have already been margin-called, but on the interface, it still looks fine; when the feed suddenly updates, the liquidation line is instantly breached, and the liquidator arrives faster than you can react, sometimes even before you can close your position. There's an even more annoying scenario: the on-chain price has already dropped, but the oracle hasn't updated yet. You think it's safe, but in reality, you're gambling against time.
Now, whenever I see proposals involving lending or liquidation, I first check the oracle source, update frequency, deviation protection, and shutdown plans. If the budget just says "to be optimized later," I directly push back—don't treat everyone's positions as a testing environment. Risks, after all, are enough to break your defenses when there's latency.