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How can a DeFi project’s entire liquidity become inaccessible in an instant? In this article, we explore a type of Denial-of-Service attack vector. Namely, Denial-of-service by affecting internal token balances. This particular vulnerability arises when a Balancer multi-token flash loan is taken out for tokens with double entry points.

Having smart contracts audited is necessary if they are to serve a meaningful purpose. It is also essential that all stakeholders of a project read its audit report. This is so that the project and its security outlook is understood at a deeper level.

On April 14, we informed Curve and affected projects about a read-only reentrancy vulnerability in some Curve pools. More specifically, the value of function get_virtual_price can be manipulated by reentering it during the removal of liquidity.

It’s easy to get tricked by lies and deception when you’re blinded by beauty. Taking off rose-colored glasses can be heartbreaking but getting them smashed on your face will be disastrous. Oracle manipulations are quite similar. They deceive you into not seeing the true value of something. Once you realize, the world around you is crumbling.

Proof of Stake is coming Ethereum’s Merge is coming soon™ and will be moving the network from PoW to PoS. This is a consensus layer change and will have relatively few effects on the application layer.