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; ...

A flash loan is a type of uncollateralized lending that is popular across a number of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols based on the Ethereum network. These types of loans have made headlines ...

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 ...

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Technical weaknesses in smart contracts, such as reentrancy and flash loan exploits, have led to substantial financial losses ...

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 ...

On Sunday, an attacker managed to drain around $182 million of cryptocurrency from Beanstalk Farms, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project aimed at balancing the supply and demand of different ...