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Study: Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024

A study reported by Decrypt claims flash loan attacks drained $1.2B from DeFi between 2020 and 2024, based on researchers scanning more than 20 billion transactions.

Why “Unverified”

  • Reported by Decrypt alone, with no second source or primary confirmation yet

1 independent source group across 1 post · evidence score 56/100. How labels work

What the sources claim

  1. Flash loan attacks drained $1.2B from DeFi between 2020 and 2024, according to a study.

    “Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024: Study”
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  2. Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers.

    “Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers”
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  3. Researchers scanned more than 20 billion transactions.

    “researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions”
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Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-10-06 15:30 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.