Flash Loan Attacks: Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi?

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Are two recent attacks taking advantage of "Flash loans," low liquidity and price oracle issues the first of more to come?

For early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.Part of what makes decentralized finance, or DeFi, interesting to people is how it takes advantage of open-source protocols to enable types of transactions never before available.

The problem is financial structures mean new financial vulnerabilities.

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