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How Flash Loans Attacks Work: Price Manipulation and Arbitrage

18 Mar 2025 1 minute read 7 comments ☑️0🆇D̺͈͙͕̿ͧ̑ͣ🅰🆅🅸🅳eͤ

In this series of articles, we will see some of the most widespread attacks in DeFi. In this case, we are not talking about hacking smart contracts but about exploiting price variations. Let's start with Flash Loan Attacks. Flash Loan Attacks involve...

Flash Loans

29 Jun 2022 8 minute read 4 comments cryptogod-1

Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a great day, welcome to CryptoGod-1's blog on all things Crypto. In this post I will be looking at a very interesting topic in Flash Loans. Many people have probably come across this terminology before, and m...

What Is a Flash Loan in DeFI?

5 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Notum DeFi App

When you want to take a traditional loan, you need to provide lots of information such as proof of reserves, income, etc. What about flash loans? Actually, they wouldn’t be that flash if they asked for so many personal details.  How did that become p...

Wrap Finance Loses Nearly $8M in Flash Loan Attack

18 Dec 2020 1 minute read 95 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Lending protocol Wrap Finance has become the latest victim of a flash loan attack, losing approximately $7.7 million on Dec. 18. The attacker siphoned $7.7 million worth of stablecoins, with the team saying there is a plan to recover $5.5 million, w...

Chainlink CEO Expects Flash Attacks to Ramp Up

25 Nov 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Chainlink (LINK) co-founder Sergey Nazarov believes that the DeFi market will experience more flash loan attacks going forward. Nazarov made the statement during a Decrypt Daily podcast on Nov. 24. Nazarov said that the main pain point with respect...

Original Dollar (OUSD) Loses $7M Through Flash Loan Attack

17 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

The Origin Dollar (OUSD) project has lost $7 million in a flash loan attack, the team announced in a blog post published on Nov 17.  The attacker exploited a reentrancy bug in the protocol’s smart contracts, which took place in the middle of a mint;...

DeFi Protocol Value Suffers $6M Flash Loan Attack

16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

DeFi protocol Value announced on Nov. 14 that it had experienced a flash loan attack that resulted in the loss of $6 million. The attacker specifically targeted Value Protocols’ MultiStables Vault, which led to $6 million in user deposits being stol...

DeFi Protocol Akropolis Loses $2M in Flash Loan Attack

13 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

DeFi Savings protocol Akropolis revealed on Nov. 12 that it had been subject to a flash loan attack, losing over $2 million as a result. The Akropolis team noticed at 14:36 GMT on Nov. 12 that $2 million in DAI had been siphoned out of a Curve and s...

A $50,000,000 Loan with 0 Downpayment | Welcome to DeFi

3 Nov 2020 4 minute read 10 comments Chenhuang_defi

Welcome to DeFi, a place where you can easily take out a $50 million loan with ZERO collateral. How? You can take out an uncollateralized loan of any size as long as you can repay it in the same transaction. Confused? Let's dig deeper. SourceOn 26 O...