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XRP Ledger's design blocks the flash loan attacks costing DeFi hundreds of millions
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CoinDesk Staff(02:30 AM UTC)
1 min read
A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are "structurally impossible" on the network because of how its transactions are built, an architectural quirk that has spared the chain from the exploit class that has cost Ethereum DeFi billions.
The two biggest DeFi exploits of the past two months have one thing in common. They used a tool that does not exist on the XRP Ledger.
Thorchain lost…
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