Last Resort Liveness: Pricing Aztec's Escape Hatch

No, the lending rate includes the risk of exploitation. I’ll reiterate that a short position (attacker selling borrowed tokens) allows an attacker to profit from a crash.

Some ideas for addressing soundness risk directly:

  • Postpone the escape hatch until after Prediction-marketed non-governance prices the risk of exploit below a threshold
  • Create an on-chain soundness bounty that disables the escape hatch for a while
  • Pay third-party contractors for security audits