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List of Flash Loan Attacks in Crypto

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Project Date of Exploit Exploit Amt. (USD) Blockchain Type of Exploit Contract Type Exploited Contract Add Exploit Transaction
Goledo Finance 2024-01-28T00:00:00.000Z 1700000 Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi https://evm.confluxscan.net/address/0xcb6c84324030365d00ac9e02785b662876127da6 https://evm.confluxscan.net/tx/0x9359dbee49fdb2567612908a419a95034df34af86874a0761f1e9111596526d9
Gamma Strategies 2024-01-06T00:00:00.000Z 3400000 Arbitrum Flash Loan Attacks, Flash Loan Attacks DEX https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x025cf2858723369d606ee3abbc4ec01eab064a97cc9ec578bf91c6908679be75
Radiant Capital 2024-01-03T00:00:00.000Z 4500000 Ethereum Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks Lending and Borrowing https://arbiscan.io/address/0xf4b1486dd74d07706052a33d31d7c0aafd0659e1 https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x1ce7e9a9e3b6dd3293c9067221ac3260858ce119ecb7ca860eac28b2474c7c9b
Channels Finance 2023-12-31T00:00:00.000Z 320000 BNB Chain Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi https://bscscan.com/address/0x07e536f23a197f6fb76f42ad01ac2bcdc3bf738e https://bscscan.com/tx/0x93372ce9c86a25f1477b0c3068e745b5b829d5b58025bb1ab234230d3473b776
GoodDollar 2023-12-18T00:00:00.000Z 624000 Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks
Peapods Finance 2023-12-13T00:00:00.000Z 239000 Ethereum Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks, Reentrancy
Fulcrum 2023-12-04T00:00:00.000Z 223000 Ethereum Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb072f2e88058c147d8ff643694b43a42e36525b7173ce1daf76e6c06170b0e77
FCN-TRUST 2023-12-01T00:00:00.000Z 504000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/tx/0xbeea4ff215b15870e22ed0e4d36ccd595974ffd55c3d75dad2230196cc379a52
Platypus Defi 2023-10-12T00:00:00.000Z 2000000 Avalanche C Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi https://snowtrace.io/tx/0xab5f6242fb073af1bb3cd6e891bc93d247e748a69e599a3744ff070447acb20f
Balancer Vault 2023-08-27T00:00:00.000Z 2100000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Flash Loan Attacks Vaults
Uwerx 2023-08-02T00:00:00.000Z 324000 Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks Vesting Contract https://etherscan.io/address/0xda2ccfc4557ba55eada3cbebd0aeffcf97fc14ca https://etherscan.io/tx/0x3b19e152943f31fe0830b67315ddc89be9a066dc89174256e17bc8c2d35b5af8
WGPT 2023-07-12T00:00:00.000Z 82000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0x1f415255f7e2a8546559a553e962de7bc60d7942 https://bscscan.com/tx/0x258e53526e5a48feb1e4beadbf7ee53e07e816681ea297332533371032446bfd
Libertify 2023-07-11T00:00:00.000Z 452000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Reentrancy DeFi https://etherscan.io/token/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2?a=0xdfcdb5a86b167b3a418f3909d6f7a2f2873f2969 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcb0ad9da33ecabf75df0a24aabf8a4517e4a7c5b1b2f11fee3b6a1ad9299a282
SELL Token 2023-06-11T00:00:00.000Z 105273 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0xa645995e9801f2ca6e2361edf4c2a138362bade4 https://bscscan.com/tx/0xe968e648b2353cea06fc3da39714fb964b9354a1ee05750a3c5cc118da23444b
wDAO EON 2023-06-02T00:00:00.000Z 30000 Polygon Flash Loan Attacks DEX https://polygonscan.com/address/0x9d101e71064971165cd801e39c6b07234b65aa88 https://explorer.phalcon.xyz/tx/polygon/0xa1f2377fc6c24d7cd9ca084cafec29e5d5c8442a10aae4e7e304a4fbf548be6d
Celframe Network 2023-06-01T00:00:00.000Z 74900 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Jimbos Protocol 2023-05-28T00:00:00.000Z 7500000 Arbitrum Flash Loan Attacks, Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi https://arbiscan.io/address/0x271944d9D8CA831F7c0dBCb20C4ee482376d6DE7 https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x44a0f5650a038ab522087c02f734b80e6c748afb207995e757ed67ca037a5eda
LW token 2023-05-12T00:00:00.000Z 48000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0x7b8c378df8650373d82ceb1085a18fe34031784f https://bscscan.com/tx/0xb846f3aeb9b3027fe138b23bbf41901c155bd6d4b24f08d6b83bd37a975e4e4a
WEEB Token 2023-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 30689 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation Tokens https://etherscan.io/token/0x9e3d5b091e7728080d9b2e1aaf20ee63db6b65bb https://etherscan.io/tx/0xcb58fb952914896b35d909136b9f719b71fc8bc60b59853459fc2476d4369c3a
MChainCapital 2023-05-09T00:00:00.000Z 18871 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://etherscan.io/token/0x1a7981d87e3b6a95c1516eb820e223fe979896b3 https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf72f1d10fc6923f87279ce6c0aef46e372c6652a696f280b0465a301a92f2e26
Floki Inu 2023-05-09T00:00:00.000Z 58591 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://etherscan.io/token/0xcf0c122c6b73ff809c693db761e7baebe62b6a2e https://etherscan.io/tx/0x118b7b7c11f9e9bd630ea84ef267b183b34021b667f4a3061f048207d266437a
Block Forest 2023-05-06T00:00:00.000Z 275439 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0xc4e83b0ef81b4c7cab394f1c0d4a39bf8bc4e248 https://bscscan.com/tx/0x5a89e083e8e3ad75c38be65a6a92d7e32249cf9b5ceb304bf1ae2409241993ff
ForTubeFi 2023-04-28T00:00:00.000Z 60000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi https://etherscan.io/token/0xdb694cb2b58f66c5e79ff272df37ecb46dc31add https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4b4fa751b2cb82ff9aa53406f48e83a44babb7c60d2354e13905efa7a2ddffe7
SASHIMI Token 2023-04-25T00:00:00.000Z 24200 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0x6cb9d7ecf84b0d3e7704ed91046e16f9d45c00fa https://bscscan.com/tx/0x3bf529642d21ddde9c24569ae363ccc09c1d2cb2de2c375d67c05f90685ce07a
XBN Token 2023-04-19T00:00:00.000Z 10000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation Tokens https://bscscan.com/address/0x0321394309CaD7E0E424650844c3AB3b659315d3 https://bscscan.com/tx/0x3b698ba37f33ac0f822a0de7e097126d71e8216bf59ec9b2e6044df7d4f40296
Ocean Life Token 2023-04-19T00:00:00.000Z 11000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Logic Exploit Tokens https://bscscan.com/token/0xb5a0ce3acd6ec557d39afdcbc93b07a1e1a9e3fa https://bscscan.com/tx/0xa21692ffb561767a74a4cbd1b78ad48151d710efab723b1efa5f1e0147caab0a
Meta Skyer 2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z 20000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/tx/0xee1bc3d0b5b9bbbe3fa47730774a391491f583a602afb0969f532d521975137d
UNMS Token 2023-03-29T00:00:00.000Z 104174 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens https://bscscan.com/tx/0x5feb28c35ddda566cf224714f7f721d093ab1de964ea0420f025dd44d953a344
FastSwap 2023-03-24T00:00:00.000Z 8812 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DEX
Euler Finance 2023-03-13T00:00:00.000Z 196000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
DKP Token 2023-03-08T00:00:00.000Z 80000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation Tokens
HakunaMatata (TATA) 2023-02-23T00:00:00.000Z 10000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Dynamic DYFA Token 2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z 22400 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
BABYDOLL Token 2023-02-19T00:00:00.000Z 7900 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Platypus DeFi 2023-02-17T00:00:00.000Z 9000000 Avalanche C Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
dForce 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000Z 3650000 Arbitrum Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
DAYUDAO Token 2023-02-08T00:00:00.000Z 3300 BNB Chain Price/Oracle Manipulation, Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
FDP Token 2023-02-07T00:00:00.000Z 10000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
BEVO NFT Art Token 2023-01-30T00:00:00.000Z 44000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation Tokens
Storm Bringer Token 2023-01-30T00:00:00.000Z 35000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Unbound DAO (UBT) 2023-01-13T00:00:00.000Z 4560 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DAO
ThreeBodyOF 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z 3000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Roe Finance 2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z 80000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
Elastic Swap 2022-12-13T00:00:00.000Z 850000 Avalanche C Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi 0x75739a693459f33B1FBcC02099eea3eBCF150cBe
TRQ 2022-12-10T00:00:00.000Z 75483 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens 0xaa0c7ccb56ec1d6510bcd9d223a57362d5b63d59b16f074343749e3337f42a35
MU Official 2022-12-10T00:00:00.000Z 57000 Avalanche C Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens MU-0xD036414fa2BCBb802691491E323BFf1348C5F4Ba, MUG-0xF7ed17f0Fb2B7C9D3DDBc9F0679b2e1098993e81
Project AES 2022-12-07T00:00:00.000Z 65000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Reward Pool 0xdDc0CFF76bcC0ee14c3e73aF630C029fe020F907h
MBC token 2022-11-30T00:00:00.000Z 5600 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation Tokens, DeFi
project SEAMAN 2022-11-29T00:00:00.000Z 7780 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
UEarnPool 2022-11-17T00:00:00.000Z 16038 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi Staking
DFX Finance 2022-11-10T00:00:00.000Z 5000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Logic Exploit DEX
$mooCakeCTX token 2022-11-07T00:00:00.000Z 140000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks ERC20
$VTF Tokens 2022-10-27T00:00:00.000Z 58000 BNB Chain Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
$ULME 2022-10-25T00:00:00.000Z 50646 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
PLTD Project 2022-10-22T00:00:00.000Z 24497 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
$PLTD 2022-10-18T00:00:00.000Z 24497 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
MTDAO (MT) 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z 487000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Earning Farm 2022-10-14T00:00:00.000Z 971000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
awakening project 2022-10-12T00:00:00.000Z 120000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
BTUs (BTU) 2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z 72000 BNB Chain Exit Scam, Flash Loan Attacks Tokens 0xf5e88c44093252db8c8250df3cd51c8fd96cd6c9
RL Token (RL) 2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z 9000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
RADT-DAO token 2022-09-23T00:00:00.000Z 94305 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
New Free Dao 2022-09-08T00:00:00.000Z 1250000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Avalanche ( 2022-09-07T00:00:00.000Z 370000 Avalanche C Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Dao_officials 2022-09-04T00:00:00.000Z 581254 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Cupid 2022-08-31T00:00:00.000Z 78623 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks Tokens
Nirvana 2022-07-28T00:00:00.000Z 3490000 Solana Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
$LPC Flashloan 2022-07-25T00:00:00.000Z 45000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Logic Exploit DeFi, ERC20
Space Godzilla 2022-07-13T00:00:00.000Z 26000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
Omni X 2022-07-10T00:00:00.000Z 1400000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Pandora chain DAO 2022-06-22T00:00:00.000Z 128222 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
WhaleLoans 2022-06-20T00:00:00.000Z 5964 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
FSwap 2022-06-13T00:00:00.000Z 390085 BNB Chain Smart Contracts Vulnerability, Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Novo DeFi 2022-05-29T00:00:00.000Z 83000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
FEG Token 2022-05-15T00:00:00.000Z 1300000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Deus DAO 2022-04-28T00:00:00.000Z 13400000 Fantom Price/Oracle Manipulation, Flash Loan Attacks DAO
Hundred Finance 2022-03-15T00:00:00.000Z 6200000 Gnosis Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Agave 2022-03-15T00:00:00.000Z 5500000 Gnosis Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Paraluni 2022-03-13T00:00:00.000Z 1700000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Grim Finance 2021-12-18T00:00:00.000Z 30000000 Fantom Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Cream 2021-10-27T00:00:00.000Z 130000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
Indexed Finance 2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z 16000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
Cream Finance 2021-08-30T00:00:00.000Z 18800000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
X-Token 2021-08-29T00:00:00.000Z 4500000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
SurgeBNB 2021-08-17T00:00:00.000Z 4000000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Popsicle Finance 2021-08-03T00:00:00.000Z 20000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
PancakeBunny 2021-07-16T00:00:00.000Z 2400000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
ApeRocketFi 2021-07-14T00:00:00.000Z 1260000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Eleven Finance 2021-06-22T00:00:00.000Z 4500000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Belt Finance 2021-05-29T00:00:00.000Z 6200000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
BurgerSwap 2021-05-27T00:00:00.000Z 7200000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
JulSwap 2021-05-27T00:00:00.000Z 700000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
AutoShark Finance 2021-05-24T00:00:00.000Z 750000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Bogged Finance 2021-05-22T00:00:00.000Z 3600000 BNB Chain Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Rari Capital 2021-05-08T00:00:00.000Z 10000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DeFi
Alpha Finance 2021-02-13T00:00:00.000Z 38000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Growth DeFi 2021-02-09T00:00:00.000Z 1300000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Yearn 2021-02-04T00:00:00.000Z 11000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Origin Dollar 2020-11-17T00:00:00.000Z 7700000 Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
CheeseBank 2020-11-16T00:00:00.000Z 3300000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Value Defi 2020-11-14T00:00:00.000Z 7000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Harvest Finance 2020-10-26T00:00:00.000Z 25000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks, Price/Oracle Manipulation DEX
Eminence Finance 2020-09-15T00:00:00.000Z 15000000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
Balancer 2020-06-28T00:00:00.000Z 522000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi
bZx 2020-02-15T00:00:00.000Z 350000 Ethereum Flash Loan Attacks DeFi

Flash loan exploits are a type of attack in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem that exploits the mechanics of flash loans. Flash loans are uncollateralized loans provided by certain DeFi protocols that must be borrowed and repaid within a single transaction. If the loan cannot be repaid within the same transaction, the transaction is reversed, making it as if the loan never happened.

How Flash Loans Work?

Flash loan exploits typically involve the following steps:

  • Borrowing a Large Sum: The attacker borrows a substantial amount of funds via a flash loan.
  • Executing Exploitative Actions: Using the borrowed funds, the attacker manipulates the market or exploits vulnerabilities in other DeFi protocols. Common targets include price oracles, liquidity pools, and smart contracts with bugs.
  • Profiting and Repaying the Loan: The attacker profits from the exploitative actions, repays the flash loan within the same transaction, and pockets the remaining profit.

Common Types of Flash Loan Exploits

  • Oracle Manipulation: Exploiters target price oracles (mechanisms that feed external price data into the blockchain). By manipulating the oracle price, they can buy assets at artificially low prices or sell them at inflated prices.
  • Liquidity Pool Draining: Exploiters use flash loans to create large price swings in liquidity pools, enabling them to buy assets cheaply and sell them at a profit after manipulating the pool’s pricing mechanism.
  • Reentrancy Attacks: In this scenario, attackers exploit a smart contract’s vulnerability. A function makes an external call to another contract before updating its state, allowing the attacker to repeatedly withdraw funds before the contract’s state is updated.

Preventive Measures

To mitigate the risk of flash loan exploits, DeFi protocols can implement several strategies:

  • Oracle Security: Using decentralized and tamper-resistant oracles to provide more reliable price data.
    Rate Limiting: Implementing limits on the amount of assets that can be borrowed or traded within a short time frame.
  • Smart Contract Audits: Regularly auditing smart contracts to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
  • Dynamic Fees: Introducing dynamic transaction fees that increase with the size and frequency of transactions to deter large-scale exploits.

Flash loan exploits highlight the importance of robust security measures and vigilant monitoring in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape.

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