Hackers were able to drain $16.4 million in ETH and Dai from DeFi projects Akropolis, Value DeFi Protocol, and Origin Protocol using flash loans, just in the past week. Value DeFi Attack An attacker on Value DeFi swapped flash-loaned ETH for DAI and USDT, deposited part of the flash-loaned DAI into Value DeFi’s multi-stablecoin vault. They…

Many decentralized finance applications broke down earlier today after a series of unfortunate events resulted in an outage on a key piece of Ethereum infrastructure.  The main lesson of the day is that a *decentralized* financial system shouldn’t be so reliant on a single provider.  Here’s what happened: Developers of Ethereum client Geth —one of…

Harvest Finance, one of the latest DeFi projects to ride on the waning yield farming wave, was exploited over the weekend, shortly after its total value locked crossed the $1B mark. The hacker was able to drain $33.8M worth of stablecoins. Users can deposit a variety of stablecoins and governance tokens in the Harvest platform…

The latest ‘test in prod’ experiment from Yearn founder Andre Cronje has many degen traders questioning their YOLO nature following a flash loan attack of contracts which hadn’t been officially released to the public yesterday afternoon. Eminence Finance, an NFT gaming ecosystem which was still in development, was exploited by a hacker who stole $15M...

bZx had relaunched just two weeks ago, highlighting its increased focus on security after attackers were able to make $900k in two exploits earlier this year. Last night, it was exploited once more. The hacker was able to duplicate tokens received in exchange for deposits in the protocol, called iTokens, and then use those iTokens…