This is unbelievable: A $50M “trading mistake”… or a money-wash strategy? 🤔
$50M Swap → Only $36K in
$AAVE Most people are calling it a trading mistake…
But the data raises a different question: Was this actually a money-washing strategy? 🤔
What happened
A wallet swapped $50M worth of aEthUSDT but received only ~$36K of $AAVE due to extreme slippage.
Where the money went
🔹 MEV Bot → Titan Builder: 16,927 ETH (~$34.8M)
🔹 Titan Builder → Lido Validator: 568 ETH (~$1.2M)
🔹 Titan Builder kept: 16,359 ETH (~$33.6M)
🔹 MEV bot operator kept: ~$10M
🔹 Aave protocol fee: ~$600K
Total extracted fr