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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

Flash loans allow users to borrow a high amount of assets without having to provide any upfront collateral, this is often used by miscreants to launch attacks on DeFi protocols. New Free DAO, a ...