Pickle Finance's cDAI jar was drained of 19.7 million DAI through a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to substitute a counterfeit "Pickle Jar" into the protocol's swap logic, …
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Two more DeFi protocols were exploited within roughly a day of each other in mid-November 2020, extending a month-long run of flash-loan-driven attacks. Cheese Bank lost $3.3 milli…
Reputations built on confidence rather than caution tend to be the first to crack. Value DeFi found this out on November 14, 2020, when an attacker drained $7,000,000 from the prot…
An attacker combined flash loans with a re-entrancy exploit to drain $2,000,000 in DAI from the Akropolis protocol. In the immediate aftermath, Akropolis administrators initially d…
On November 11, 2020, the Ethereum mainnet suffered a network-wide disruption after a consensus-layer flaw surfaced, splitting participants who were still running older versions of…
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Momentum keeps building. People who staked out early positions in crypto are unsurprised to watch former skeptics, including establishment figures, come around. A handful of holdou…
An attacker used a flash loan to extract $33.8 million from Harvest Finance's FARM_USDT and FARM_USDC pools, in one of the more mechanically intricate DeFi exploits of the "DeFi su…
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Uniswap's very first on-chain governance proposal has been voted down. Submitted by the team behind Dharma , the measure called for setting the proposal-submission threshold at 3 m…
Andre Cronje could not stay away for long. Two weeks earlier, he had gone quiet on crypto Twitter after the Eminence scandal put a dent in his reputation as DeFi's favored develope…
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