AI agents use earn_place_order to commit financial operations through Bybit — usually the final step of a payment, billing, or trading workflow. A call moves real money.
On a cryptocurrency exchange like Bybit, placing an order in an earn product (e.g., staking, savings, yield products) commits real financial capital. Even with an empty description, the combination of the exchange context and 'place_order' naming makes this a Financial category tool. Misuse could result in unintended capital deployment into financial instruments.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'earn_place_order' on a trading exchange MCP server with 246 tools for 'trading, market data, account management'. The 'place_order' suffix strongly implies committing a financial transaction on Bybit's earn/investment products.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
earn_place_order. It is categorised as a Financial tool in the Bybit MCP Server, which means it involves financial transactions. Block by default and require explicit approval.
Register the Bybit MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for earn_place_order: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Bybit. Nothing to install.
earn_place_order is a Financial tool with critical risk. Critical-risk tools should be blocked by default and only enabled with explicit human approval.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the earn_place_order rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for earn_place_order. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
earn_place_order is provided by the Bybit MCP server (johnnywic/bybit-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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