Someone exploited a vulnerability in the Meta Pool staking contract to "print money" on the spot, conjuring up more than 9,700 mpETH out of thin air, which at the time was worth a whopping 27 million dollars! But guess what? This genius hacker, after all the fuss, ended up being able to convert less than ten ETH into real money—this scene is like someone using a legendary treasure map to dig up a mountain of gold, only to find out at the exchange that there’s no one in the market to take on such an outrageous fortune.
Clearly, there are assets worth nine figures lying right there in the contract, but in the face of a dried-up liquidity pool, assets without liquidity are just a string of numerical ghosts in the world of code.
As long as a certain long-tail asset encounters extreme market conditions, the entire system could instantaneously play out a "Monopoly Game Bankruptcy". Nowadays, even hackers have begun to consider cash-out methodologies; they need to assess the depth of the pool before deciding whether to cast their nets to catch fish. "The deeper the pool, the more real the wealth". Can your pool really catch my money?