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Belt Finance suffers exploit: history repeats itself

Another DeFi exploit shakes the BSC community.  And once again a flash loan played the central role.  The Belt Finance team  had to admit yesterday  that there was an incident on May 29 that drove investors $ 50 million.  The attacker only made a little more than 6 million US dollars.  The rest was on fees and is now part of the investor's loss. With a flash loan, you can borrow extremely large sums provided that you repay them in the same transaction.  The attacker used this mechanism to exploit gaps in the pool's strategy and suck liquidity from it.  In the case at hand, it hit the beltBUSD pool, which was targeted eight times in a row in a short period of time.  In response, the developers stopped all deposits and withdrawals to prevent further damage.  Now they want to have further audits carried out in order to rule out that such an incident could repeat itself in the future.  They are also said to be working on a  plan  to compensate those affected. Copied Ethereum and ye

DeFi market stumbles despite major advances in scaling ETH

More and more scaling solutions for Ethereum (ETH) want to secure part of the market for Decentralized Finance (DeFi).  In addition to Polygon (MATIC), Arbitrum in particular has attracted attention in the past few days - which projects are using the scaling solution? The DeFi market had to bleed again in the past few days.  Compared to the  previous week  , Total Value Locked (TVL) fell from $ 113.28 billion to $ 104.41 billion at the time of going to press. This means that the capital managed by DeFi protocols has shrunk by a total of 7.83 percent in the last seven days.  In addition, the  “ETF token” DeFi Pulse Index (DPI)  has also  lost 21.11 percent of its value this week.  At  press time , DPI is  trading  at $  359.34 . Despite the poor price development of many DeFi tokens, a lot has happened this week.  Especially projects dealing with  Ethereum scaling solutions  have made great strides. Star investor Mark Cuban relies on Polygon (MATIC) The Ethereum scaling solution polygon