HackEthereum2020
bZx Flash Loan Attacks
bZx suffered early DeFi flash-loan attacks that exposed weaknesses in oracle and lending design.
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Key Facts
Peak metricMultiple exploit rounds
OutcomeRisk controls and oracle defenses tightened
ChainEthereum
Year2020
Typehack
Tags
defiflash-loanoracle
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