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Stablecoins

Warp Finance Suffers Possible $8M Flash Loan Attack

Kevin ReynoldsDec 18, 2020

The scheme has become common in the fast-growing DeFi sector.

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DeFi Exploits Can’t Be Pinned on Flash Loans, Industry Leaders Say

William FoxleyNov 18, 2020

DeFi’s novel flash loan products aren't to blame for the recent string of exploits, industry leaders say.

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OpenZeppelin’s ‘Defender’ Gives DeFi Teams a Weapon Against Flash Loan Attacks

Colin HarperMar 11, 2021

Flash loan attacks have filched nearly $150 million from DeFi projects since 2020.

DeFi

Origin Protocol Loses $7M in Latest DeFi Attack

William FoxleyNov 17, 2020

Stablecoin project Origin Dollar (OUSD) sustained a re-entrancy attack at 00:47 UTC Tuesday resulting in a loss of funds worth $7 million.

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Value DeFi Suffers $6M Flash Loan Attack

Muyao ShenNov 14, 2020

The latest flash loan attack in the decentralized finance world has caused a total loss of $6 million.

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MakerDAO

MakerDAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack

Colin Harper

The MakerDAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting.

Harvest Finance

Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds

William Foxley

Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit.

MakerDAO

‘Flash Loans’ Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections

William Foxley

BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process.

DeFi

Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M ‘Bank Run’ in Latest DeFi Exploit

William Foxley

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.

News Roundup

Blockchain Bites: EY’s Auditing Slip and Bitcoin’s Long Line of Pseudonymous Developers

Daniel Kuhn

Balancer fell victim to a "flash loan" exploit while a shareholders association said EY should have caught Wirecard's multi-billion blackhole earlier.

Uniswap

Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans

Brady Dale

The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any token pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum.

Opinion

The DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ Attack That Changed Everything

Haseeb Qureshi

Flash loan attacks are here to stay and are likely to get more serious. DeFi needs to adapt, says a leading crypto VC.