{"id":141232,"date":"2023-09-01T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=141232"},"modified":"2023-09-01T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:31:15","slug":"quantstamp-introduces-tool-to-detect-protocols-flash-loan-attack-vulnerability-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/quantstamp-introduces-tool-to-detect-protocols-flash-loan-attack-vulnerability-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantstamp introduces tool to detect protocols\u2019 flash loan attack vulnerability – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blockchain security provider Quantstamp has launched an automated service to detect flash loan attack vectors in smart contracts. The new service is being called Economic Exploit Analysis and is based on research done at the University of Toronto. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Economic Exploit Analysis will be available to protocols, whether they have been deployed or not. It will enhance Quantstamp\u2019s audits by identifying flash loan attack vulnerabilities in a client\u2019s code. The service will be available on any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible blockchain and is non-exhaustive \u2014 that is, it may not detect all attacks.<\/p>\n

In decentralized finance (DeFi), a flash loan is an unsecured loan<\/a> that has to be taken out and paid back in the same transaction. Flash loans can be used to take advantage of price differences between crypto exchanges (arbitrage), debt refinancing and similar actions. A flash loan attack is the manipulation of DeFi protocols in ways developers did not foresee. Quantstamp explained:<\/p>\n

\u201cFlash loan attacks can drain the entire TVL (total value locked) of a DeFi protocol, and their complicated nature combined with DeFi\u2019s composability means these attack vectors often evade conventional audits.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related: Ripple expands Canadian engineering activities with U of Toronto XRP validator<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The need for greater security in DeFi markets is garnering increasing attention<\/a>. The problem of flash loan largest attacks, in particular, was brought into focus when Euler Finance was attacked in March<\/a>. Last year, over $2 billion worth of crypto was stolen in hacks and exploits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another day, another speaker for #L2Warsaw<\/a> – @jgorzny<\/a>, Head of L2 Scaling at @Quantstamp<\/a>!<\/p>\n

He’ll discuss their new rollup security framework and its aim to standardize language for both users & developers.<\/p>\n

Title: “Rollup Security Framework”
12:00 PM pic.twitter.com\/3rW9UFZZoS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 L2BEAT (@l2beat) August 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coinbase\u2019s new Base layer-2 is also addressing security vulnerabilities. It is developing a monitoring tool that it is calling Pessimism to \u201cprovide prompt notification of anomalies in the protocol and network, such as account balance irregularities, contract events, or disparities between L1 and L2 states,\u201d it announced<\/a> in a recent blog post.<\/p>\n

Collect this article as an NFT<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to preserve this moment in history and show your support for independent journalism in the crypto space.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Magazine: The trouble with automated market makers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blockchain security provider Quantstamp has launched an automated service to detect flash loan attack vectors in smart contracts. The new service is being called Economic Exploit Analysis and is based on research done at the University of Toronto. \u00a0 Economic Exploit Analysis will be available to protocols, whether they have been deployed or not. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-141232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147044,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141232\/revisions\/147044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}