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Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds
Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit.
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'Flash Loans' Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections
BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process.
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Customers outside the Berlin Stadtbank, waiting to withdraw their savings at the outbreak of World War I, August 1914.
Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M 'Bank Run' in Latest DeFi Exploit
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.
Customers outside the Berlin Stadtbank, waiting to withdraw their savings at the outbreak of World War I, August 1914.

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Blockchain Bites: EY's Auditing Slip and Bitcoin's Long Line of Pseudonymous Developers
Balancer fell victim to a "flash loan" exploit while a shareholders association said EY should have caught Wirecard's multi-billion blackhole earlier.
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MAGIC: Some tokens are more like amulets. (Credit: Thomas Wyness/Shutterstock)
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
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.
MAGIC: Some tokens are more like amulets. (Credit: Thomas Wyness/Shutterstock)

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The DeFi 'Flash Loan' Attack That Changed Everything
Flash loan attacks are here to stay and are likely to get more serious. DeFi needs to adapt, says a leading crypto VC.
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FOR A RAINY DAY: Nexus Mutual members voted to pay out two claims following the bZx flash loan attacks – a first for the DeFi insurance pioneer. (Image via Shutterstock)
DeFi Insurance Firm Nexus Mutual Makes Its First Payout Following bZx Attacks
Nexus Mutual members voted to pay out two claims following the bZx flash loan attacks – a first for the DeFi insurance pioneer.
FOR A RAINY DAY: Nexus Mutual members voted to pay out two claims following the bZx flash loan attacks – a first for the DeFi insurance pioneer. (Image via Shutterstock)

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Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks
A breakdown of the role of price oracles in the recent DeFi attacks, plus what DeFi can learn from early exchange hacks.
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The Flash Loan Attacks Explained (for Everybody)
Today we're breaking down the flash loan attacks that rocked the DeFi community in a way even your grandpa can understand, presented in both audio and full-text format.
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