$BTC Bitcoin briefly displayed as $0 on Paradex, a Starknet-based perps platform, while actual market price held steady near $92,600. What happened wasn't a collapse — it was an oracle or data feed malfunction isolated to that exchange. But the consequences were real: traders got liquidated based on phantom pricing that never reflected broader reality.
This kind of event exposes something uncomfortable. Most traders assume price feeds are bulletproof, but they're just infrastructure — and infrastructure breaks. When you're trading derivatives on a platform with its own data layer, you're not just taking market risk. You're also trusting that their systems won't glitch in ways that vaporize your position while everyone else trades normally.
What stands out here isn't the technical failure itself, but how isolated it was and how brutally it still punished users.
