{"id":545913,"date":"2026-01-23T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/paradex-refunds-650k-to-200-users-after-maintenance-bug-triggers-liquidations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:55:03","slug":"paradex-refunds-650k-to-200-users-after-maintenance-bug-triggers-liquidations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/paradex-refunds-650k-to-200-users-after-maintenance-bug-triggers-liquidations\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradex refunds $650K to 200 users after maintenance bug triggers liquidations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmViYmEtZWY4MC03NjUwLTk5YzQtMGM5NjQwYmRmMWI4LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Paradex refunds $650K to 200 users after maintenance bug triggers liquidations\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paradex said a planned database upgrade briefly corrupted funding data, prompting a chain rollback and refunds after unintended liquidations across multiple markets.<\/p>\n<p>Onchain derivatives platform Paradex refunded $650,000 to about 200 users after a maintenance-related software error triggered unintended liquidations across multiple markets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Friday post-mortem <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paradex\/status\/2014616141508051376\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paradex\/status\/2014616141508051376\">shared<\/a> on X by Paradex, the incident occurred during a planned <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/paradex-service-outage-open-orders-cancelled\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/paradex-service-outage-open-orders-cancelled\">30-minute database upgrade<\/a> on Monday, when a \u201crace condition\u201d caused corrupted market data to be written onchain. Paradex said the issue was operational and not the result of a hack or security breach.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">In response, Paradex temporarily disabled access to the platform, canceled all open orders except take-profit and stop-loss orders, and rolled back the chain to a snapshot taken before the maintenance window began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/paradex-refunds-650k-users-bug-liquidations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradex said a planned database upgrade briefly corrupted funding data, prompting a chain rollback and refunds after unintended liquidations across multiple markets. Onchain derivatives platform Paradex refunded $650,000 to about 200 users after a maintenance-related software error triggered unintended liquidations across multiple markets. According to a Friday post-mortem shared on X by Paradex, the incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-545913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}