Design choice · Settlement timing
Same crash — staged over 5 blocks, or fired in one tick.
Both runs liquidate the same two longs at the same mark. Does collapsing the whole setup + crash into a single block change the result?
The liquidations are identical — the same two longs (20, 30) closed, the same final mark (96), 2 liquidations both ways. What differs is the path and how the maker book settles.
Identical either way
What changes
Staggering deposits → fills → liquidation across 5 blocks lets you watch positions build before the crash; the single-tick run collapses it into block 1. The one state difference is the second maker (account 50): the staged run leaves it carrying its −20 short (collateral 200), while the single-tick run settles it flat (collateral 444) when the whole match-and-close loop runs at once.
Switch layouts — only these change
What the dial buys you
Block layout is an observability choice, not a correctness one — the liquidations are identical either way. The multi-block path earns its keep by letting you watch positions build before the crash; the single-tick path hides that phase.