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Mars Perps

Dec 14, 2025

$960K
Lost
$960K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$960K
Unrecovered0% recovered

On December 14, 2025, Mars Protocol's Perps market on Neutron was exploited for ~$973K via skew-based pricing arbitrage. The attacker executed the same-block arbitrage pattern 15 times, exploiting that funding rates were only applied between blocks rather than within them, eliminating downside risk.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Market Manipulation
Technique
Funding Rate Arbitrage
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Neutron

Event timeline

  1. Dec 14, 2025
    Exploit executed — $960K drained via funding rate arbitrage
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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