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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Data Shows BSC Dapps Lost $167 Million Last Month From Flash Loan Attacks

Data Shows BSC Dapps Lost $167 Million Last Month from Flash Loan Attacks

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) decentralized applications (dapps) have been hit with a number of flash loan attacks in recent weeks. According to collected data by Rekt, during the last 30 days BSC has lost a total of $167 million from these flash loan exploits.

Flash Loan Hackers Prey on Binance Smart Chain Dapps – $167 Million Siphoned in May

Flash loan attacks have become an issue for the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) as a myriad of BSC dapps were breached during the month of May. Essentially, these flash loans provide people with the ability to borrow crypto without relinquishing any collateral.

The person using the flash loan leverages the method to trigger decentralized finance (defi) apps associated with oracles to sell at the desired spot price. Sometimes the hackers leverage phony ERC20s and other malicious methods during the flash loan execution to siphon defi liquidity pools.

Bitcoin.com News has reported on numerous BSC flash loan attacks that have siphoned funds from projects like Pancakebunny, Belt Finance, Spartan, Fog Finance, and Burgerswap.

Data Shows BSC Dapps Lost $167 Million Last Month From Flash Loan Attacks
All the BSC flash loan attacks in May according to Rekt stats.

Now statistics from the publication Rekt indicate that $167 million in flash loan attacks exploited BSC dapps in May. Pancakeswap has lost a whopping $45 million while Spartan saw $30 million taken during an attack.

Pancakeswap lost a total of $200 million according to initial reports, but the BSC dapp’s team noted that the hackers only managed to snag around 114,600 BNB ($45 million).

Bearn saw $11 million in stablecoins drained and Spartan saw liquidity calculation discrepancies when $30 million was swiped from a flash loan attack. Autoshark lost the least amount of funds with only $740,000 worth of BSC-based tokens swiped.

Flash loan attacks have been a great problem for a wide variety of defi protocols. Ever since the ETH-based protocol Bzx was attacked the method has been a common practice among hackers.

While BSC is now getting an increased share of flash loan attacks, Ethereum still gets hit once in a while as well. Yearn Finance suffered a flash loan attack in February which saw $11 million siphoned from the project.

What do you think about all the flash loan attacks hitting the BSC during the last 30 days? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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