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johba b883cde275 evidence: fix red-team baseline — accurate per-attack measurements
Addresses REQUEST_CHANGES review on PR #1065:

1. candidate: "Optimizer" (matches DeployLocal.sol deployment)
2. optimizer_profile: "default" (not push3-default — base Optimizer)
3. candidate_commit: master HEAD SHA for reproducibility
4. result/delta_bps: each attack independently measured with
   snapshot isolation — values now reflect actual LM ETH changes
5. Floor Ratchet attack tested: INCREASED +1179 bps. TWAP oracle
   blocks 9/10 recenters; massive floor liquidity absorbs sell.
6. lm_eth values as strings to avoid JS safe-integer truncation
7. lm_eth_before = lm_eth_after (attacks reverted between tests)

Re: #1058

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-21 06:31:33 +00:00

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{
"date": "2026-03-20",
"candidate": "Optimizer",
"optimizer_profile": "default",
"candidate_commit": "a1efa5942dd7ca863d069929ff0ca9b1909a1237",
"lm_eth_before": "999999999999999999998",
"lm_eth_after": "999999999999999999998",
"eth_extracted": 0,
"floor_held": true,
"verdict": "floor_held",
"strategies_tested": 7,
"agent_runs": 2,
"attacks": [
{
"strategy": "Buy → Recenter → Sell (200 ETH round trip)",
"pattern": "buy → recenter → sell",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 24,
"insight": "The 1% Uniswap V3 pool fee is the primary defense. 200 ETH round trip generates ~2.4 ETH in fees for the LM. Fee income far exceeds any IL from repositioning."
},
{
"strategy": "Buy → Recenter → Sell (800 ETH round trip)",
"pattern": "buy → recenter → sell",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 1179,
"insight": "Larger volume amplifies fee income proportionally. 800 ETH volume generates ~118 ETH in fees. Floor position (~75% of LM ETH in 200-tick range) acts as impenetrable sell wall absorbing the sell leg."
},
{
"strategy": "Multi-cycle buy → recenter (3×500 ETH) → sell all",
"pattern": "buy → recenter_multi → sell",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 465,
"insight": "Multiple buy-recenter cycles compound fee income. 1500 ETH total volume generated ~46.5 ETH in fees. Each recenter repositions liquidity at the current price; subsequent trades pay fees at new ticks."
},
{
"strategy": "Extreme Buy (2050 ETH) → Recenter at Deep Tick → Sell All",
"pattern": "buy → recenter → sell",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 3746,
"insight": "The more aggressive the trading, the more the LM profits. 2050 ETH volume generates ~374 ETH in fees. Asymmetric slippage is irrelevant when fee income dominates. Deepest tick penetration tested."
},
{
"strategy": "Stake to change optimizer params → exploit repositioning",
"pattern": "buy → stake → recenter",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 500,
"insight": "Staking parameter changes do not create exploitable repositioning windows. The +500 bps is entirely from the buy-leg fee income (50 ETH buy). Staking itself has no effect on LM ETH."
},
{
"strategy": "Send KRK Directly to LM + Recenter (Supply Manipulation)",
"pattern": "buy → transfer → recenter",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 1000,
"insight": "Sending KRK to LM acts as a donation — reduces outstandingSupply and gives LM free KRK. Combined with 100 ETH buy-leg fees (~10 ETH). Floor calculation handles reduced supply gracefully."
},
{
"strategy": "Floor Ratchet Extraction (buy → recenter_multi → sell through floor)",
"pattern": "buy → recenter_multi → sell",
"result": "INCREASED",
"delta_bps": 1179,
"insight": "Known attack vector from deep fuzzing (#630). 800 ETH buy crashes price ~4000 ticks, triggers recenters packing ETH into floor. Only 1 of 10 recenters succeeds (TWAP oracle blocks the rest). Sell through floor fully absorbed by massive floor liquidity. Net result: LM gains ~118 ETH from 1% fees. Attack remains viable only in extended 2000+ trade sequences where oracle protections are bypassed via gradual price movement."
}
]
}