> It would take weeks to figure out precisely what had happened, but it appeared that the platform had been fooled into severely undervaluing tokens that belonged to its users and selling them to the attacker at an extreme discount.

Q: is the programming language these things are written in powerful enough and have sufficient data access for the developers to include sanity checks that would halt trading automatically if something is happening too far out of the norm such as an unusually high volume of attempted night discount sales? Or maybe that would just block extreme discount sales if there have been too many of those recently?