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Origin Protocol Loses $3.25M in Latest Flash Loan Attack: Reports
17.11.2020
Blockchain project Origin Dollar (OUSD) has sustained an oracle manipulation attack. The attacker used flash loans to grab $3.25 million
Value DeFi Suffers $6M Flash Loan Attack
14.11.2020
The latest flash loan attack in the decentralized finance world has caused a total loss of $6 million
Flash Loans Aren’t the Problem, Centralized Price Oracles Are
11.11.2020
Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO
Maker DAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack
30.10.2020
The Maker DAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting
Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds
29.10.2020
Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit
Maker community scrambles to fix long-standing vulnerability to flash loans
29.10.2020
A relatively benign attack highlighted the potential threat of flash loans
‘Flash Loans’ Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections
29.10.2020
BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process
Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M ‘Bank Run’ in Latest DeFi Exploit
26.10.2020
Harvest Finance has seen its total value locked drop by more than $500 million in the 12 hours since being hit by a flash loan attack
Money Market Protocol Aave Settles $300 Million in Defi Flash Loans
2.9.2020
This weekend the decentralized money market protocol Aave broke records as the community witnessed a massive flash loan of $14 million worth of the stablecoin DAI. So far, the Aave protocol has seen over $300 million in flash loans to-date and this trend doesn’t seem to be abating any time...
Aave Protocol Outpaces Maker With $1.4B Locked, Defi Project Granted UK Electronic Money License
26.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) open-source protocol built on Ethereum, Aave, has surpassed the Maker Dao project in terms of total-value-locked (TVL) this week. The lending and borrowing platform Aave has $1.43 billion locked on Tuesday climbing 7.7% in the last 24-hours. On August 25, the defi...
Inter-Blockchain Liquidity: Minting Synthetic Bitcoin Cash With the Ren Protocol
24.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has matured quite a bit in 2020 and one project that’s seen some growth is the Ren Protocol. The application that allows people to access inter-blockchain liquidity for a number of defi applications. The following post is a step-by-step guide on...
Zero Collateral: $138 Million in Defi Flash Loans Issued in 24 Hours
30.7.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) realm continues to heat up with concepts like yield farming, but another scheme called defi flash loans has also grown exponential. On Monday, the noncustodial lending protocol Aave issued $138 million in loans with zero collateral. Since the last week of June, defi...
Aave Ascends Market Rankings as Flash Loans Explode
29.7.2020
Aave is climbing the DeFi and market cap rankings as its flash loans see daily volume exceeding $100 million
Blockchain Bites: EY’s Auditing Slip and Bitcoin’s Long Line of Pseudonymous Developers
29.6.2020
Balancer fell victim to a "flash loan" exploit while a shareholders association said EY should have caught Wirecard's multi-billion blackhole earlier
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
18.5.2020
The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any pool pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum
The DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ Attack That Changed Everything
27.2.2020
Flash loan attacks are here to stay and are likely to get more serious. DeFi needs to adapt, says a leading crypto VC
Understanding Defi Flash Loans: Complex Attacks, Inflation and Composable Systems
23.2.2020
Two recent flash loans on the defi platform Bzx have started a fierce debate about the subject of using uncollateralized loans in a quick trade. Essentially these flash loans are providing people with the ability to borrow crypto without relinquishing any collateral. The scheme was used to exploit...
DeFi Insurance Firm Nexus Mutual Makes Its First Payout Following bZx Attacks
20.2.2020
Nexus Mutual members voted to pay out two claims following the bZx flash loan attacks – a first for the DeFi insurance pioneer
What are These Flash Loans that Caused an Uproar in Cryptoverse?
20.2.2020
Two recent attacks on decentralized finance (DeFi) platform bZx prompted a number of discussions about flash loans. But what are these and how are they useful to a hacker - or rather, an "exploiter"?
DeFi lending usually requires a collateral, and given the volatility of the market, most lenders...
Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks
19.2.2020
A breakdown of the role of price oracles in the recent DeFi attacks, plus what DeFi can learn from early exchange hacks