Earlier this week, the decentralized lending protocol bZx was exploited in back-to-back “flash loan” attacks. While the two exploits were distinct, the end results remained the same. In total, ...

How did flash loans originate? Unlike normal loans, flash loans do not require a borrower to provide typical requirements such as proof of income, reserves, or collateral. While that may sound ...

Flash loan security is one of the most discussed concerns in DeFi. Flash loans provide traders and developers with huge amounts of instant capital with no collateral, given that repayments occur in ...

How Flash Loans Work Flash loans use smart contracts, which are self-executing protocols with the terms of the agreement directly written into code on the blockchain. These loans are unique because ...

Crypto flash loans have quickly become one of the most powerful and misunderstood innovations in the decentralized finance ecosystem. In the first couple of years of growth for DeFi, flash loans went ...

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; ...

Flash loans use Ethereum smart contracts to enable anonymous lending with no collateral or liability. Flash loans can make arbitrage trading strategies equally accessible to everyone, regardless of ...