Haseeb Qureshi is a managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, a cross-border crypto venture fund. A longer version of the article appears on Medium. Flash loans have been the center of attention lately.

In the high-speed age of decentralized finance (DeFi), few technologies have thrilled—and terrified—so many eyeballs as flash loans. As an instrument for sophisticated users, flash loans enable anyone ...

Quantstamp, a provider of blockchain security solutions, this week unveiled Economic Exploit Analysis. Economic Exploit Analysis identifies flash loan attack vectors in smart contracts through ...

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 ...

The attack – the second in less than a week – began at just after 03:00 UTC Tuesday, when attackers apparently took out a flash loan of 7,500 ETH (approximately US$1.98 million), using 3,518 ETH ...

Crypto flash loans have become among the most debated and technically fascinating innovations in DeFi. Their future is closely linked to advancements in on-chain automation, smarter risk management ...