This is quite an interesting Easter egg.
The blogger is a foreign KOL who specializes in futures contracts and has been invited to provide user experience testing feedback for many PERP DEX teams. Recently, during the crypto disaster, all of his test positions were liquidated, except for @DriftProtocol.
He thought he had encountered a bug, but later discovered that Drift has a liquidation protection system—guardrails. This system switched the price feed to the oracle during the most chaotic market times, cutting the order book to the ORACLE, and even paused liquidations when the market was at its craziest, resulting in a position that "should have been liquidated" being preserved and held until the rebound.
"Drift’s guardrails - the ones they quietly mention in their docs - actually worked. They throttle liquidations during violent wicks, use oracle-based pricing instead of thin-book marks, and can even temporarily pause liquidations when volatility or oracle data goes off the rails. In other words, they built a system that recognizes when the market’s lost its mind - and gives traders a fighting chance instead of an instant execution."
This is truly one of a kind.
Props Where Props Are Due
I am a hands-on explorer. When I review various protocols, I get in there, test, use, attempt to find every positive as well as every negative.
A couple months ago a certain team reached out to me. They wanted my feedback as a large trader on what they could do to improve, as they are working furiously on some updates. I agreed to dive in and give them feedback.
After my big public liquidation, what most people didn’t know was that I’d been testing multiple perp DEXs simultaneously with much smaller sizes to get hands on experience - not just for myself - but for my audience who asks me daily "what about ____ protocol?"
One by one, the dominoes fell. Every single position across every DEX got liquidated.
Except one.
@DriftProtocol
At first, I actually thought I’d broken their liquidation engine. Price had blown right past my liquidation price - yet somehow, my position stayed alive. I was convinced it was a bug.
Turns out it wasn’t.
Drift’s guardrails - the ones they quietly mention in their docs - actually worked.
They throttle liquidations during violent wicks, use oracle-based pricing instead of thin-book marks, and can even temporarily pause liquidations when volatility or oracle data goes off the rails. In other words, they built a system that recognizes when the market’s lost its mind - and gives traders a fighting chance instead of an instant execution.
I know many of you are new to following me so as a reminder: my voice is never for sale. I never sponsor anything and refuse to talk about anything positively or negatively in exchange for financial gain.
In a space where “robust risk management” usually means “we’ll pray the oracle holds,” Drift engineered something real. They deserve acknowledgment for that.
Respect.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
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