RWA perpetuals market hit five record daily volumes within four weeks, with August's largest session ($57.6B) following a faulty oracle event that liquidated $57.4M.
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Real-world asset perpetuals trading reached extreme volume concentration in late July and early August, with five record daily volumes compressed into a four-week window. The largest session topped $64.3 billion on July 29, followed by four additional days exceeding $47.9 billion each. Four of these peak-volume days occurred during an initial rally period, while the fifth—$57.6 billion on August 19—unfolded as markets unwound.
The August 19 surge followed a faulty oracle data point that liquidated $57.4 million in positions across the market. Despite the disruption from the erroneous price feed, trading intensity did not decline; instead, the subsequent session became the second-largest RWA perpetuals trading day on record.
Details explaining the drivers behind each individual session remain unpublished in publicly available material, pending release of a fuller market analysis report.