The XRP Ledger has a direct answer to that risk: flash loan attacks cannot be executed on the network under its current ...

In many ways the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) has been closely tied to things that traditional finance has done in the past, with the primary marginal benefit of reducing censorship; ...

An automated trading bot recently performed a complex series of transactions on the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) blockchain. According to The Block, the transactions involved a flash loan of $200 million ...

Quantstamp, a provider of blockchain security solutions, this week unveiled Economic Exploit Analysis. Economic Exploit Analysis identifies flash loan attack vectors in smart contracts through ...

Since the beginning of the year, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has rapidly grown to more than $12 billion in total value locked. With this exponential growth, incentives have increased ...

Crypto flash loans have become among the most debated and technically fascinating innovations in DeFi. Their future is closely linked to advancements in on-chain automation, smarter risk management ...

The decentralized, credit-based finance system Beanstalk disclosed on Sunday that it suffered a security breach that resulted in financial losses of $182 million, the attacker stealing $80 million in ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now It might seem more like a corporate heist than a ...

A hacker who robbed the decentralized stablecoin platform Beanstalk in April had a powerful tool: a $1 billion loan taken out with no collateral, no proof of income and no identity verification. The ...

Jimbos Protocol, an Arbitrum-based DeFi project, has suffered a flash loan attack that resulted in the loss of more than of 4000 ETH tokens, currently valued at over $7,500,000. Lending protocol Euler ...