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BREAKDOWN: Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi?
Are two recent attacks taking advantage of ‘flashloans’, low liquidity and price oracle issues the first of more to come?
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Part of what makes DeFi interesting to people is how it takes advantage of open source protocols to enable types of transactions never before available. The problem, however, is that financial structures mean new financial vulnerabilities.
In the last few days, two attacks on bZx have used a similar strategy of manipulating the price of synthetic assets in the context of a new instrument called 'flashloans'. On this episode of @nlw breaks down exactly
- How the attacks were carried out
- How the community is responding
- What the larger ramifications for DeFi might be
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