While exploitation of security flaws in many smart contracts have become a perennial target of cyberattackers, more security firms are shining a spotlight on scams that use fraudulent or obfuscated ...

One of the Trump administration’s very first executive orders (No. 14178), issued January 23, 2025, titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” was aimed at promoting ...

Technical weaknesses in smart contracts, such as reentrancy and flash loan exploits, have led to substantial financial losses ...

Decentralized crypto lending protocol Silo Finance confirmed on Wednesday that hackers had exploited a smart contract in its network. Reports from security analysts show that the exploit may have ...

A smart contract is a computer program that is stored and runs on a decentralized ‘trustless’ network, such as a blockchain. By trustless we mean that the validity of information in the network can be ...