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How Zero-Collateral Borrowing Shaped DeFi

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Today, weâre learning about flash loans. Letâs dive in!
TODAYâS LESSON
THE POWER (AND RISK) OF INSTANT BORROWING
Flash Loans Changed Everything

Flash loans are one of the wildest innovations in decentralized finance (DeFi). They let you borrow millions of dollars in crypto without putting up any collateralâas long as you pay it back in the same transaction. Thatâs right: you can take out a massive loan, use it to do something profitable, and repay it in seconds. If anything goes wrong, the whole thing gets reversed like it never happened.
It sounds like magic, but itâs just code. Flash loans work because of how Ethereum transactions are structured: everything happens at once. If a flash loan isn't fully repaid during the transaction, it fails completelyâno funds are lost, no money changes hands. Thatâs what makes them secure in theory.
People use flash loans for arbitrage (buying on one exchange, selling on another), collateral swapping, self-liquidation, and even complex governance attacks. They're powerful tools for advanced users who understand DeFiâs moving parts. But theyâve also become infamous for enabling massive exploits when smart contracts arenât written securely.
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In one famous case, an attacker used a flash loan to manipulate a price oracle, tricking a lending platform into thinking their collateral was worth more than it really was. They walked away with millions. It wasnât the flash loanâs faultâit was the protocolâs vulnerabilityâbut the tool made the exploit possible.
Flash loans force DeFi developers to think differently. Every protocol must be resistant to atomic manipulation. Thatâs why audits, circuit breakers, and decentralized oracles have become critical in DeFi security design.
Whether you see flash loans as genius tools or hacker ammo, one thingâs clear: theyâve changed how power works in crypto. Theyâve given rise to a new kind of financial userâthe one who doesnât need money, just smart code.
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Hey Learners! đ They say you learn something new every day, and thatâs true.. if youâre a Waivly Learn reader.
Itâs that time of the day where you get to learn something brand new or level up your knowledge and skills on a topic youâve already started to explore.
Today, weâre learning about why AI needs good data. Letâs dive in!
TODAYâS LESSON
WHERE AI GETS ITS SMARTEST IDEAS
Why AI Needs Good Data

If AI is the engine, data is the fuel. And just like you wouldnât put dirty gas in a sports car, you donât want to train an AI model on messy, low-quality data. The performance of an AI systemâhow smart it seems, how accurate its responses are, how useful it becomesâdepends almost entirely on the quality of the data it's fed.
Good data doesnât just mean a lot of it. It means accurate, relevant, unbiased, and well-labeled data. For example, training a facial recognition model on photos that are mostly of one demographic will skew its accuracy. The model might perform well for some people and terribly for others, not because the algorithm is badâbut because its foundation was flawed.
AI systems learn patterns from whatever you give them. If the training data includes typos, gaps, or inconsistencies, the model will internalize that noise. You might end up with a chatbot that confidently answers questions... incorrectly. Or a recommendation system that feels off because itâs drawing from outdated or irrelevant data.
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This is why data cleaning and curation are just as important as the algorithm itself. Before any AI can be useful in the real world, someone has to make sure the input itâs learning from is solid. That means removing duplicates, standardizing formats, fixing errors, and making sure the data actually reflects the problem itâs trying to solve.
Context also matters. A dataset of restaurant reviews might be great for sentiment analysisâbut not if youâre trying to build a voice assistant. The type of data you collect should always match the goal of the model. No matter how advanced the AI, it canât compensate for input that doesnât make sense.
At the end of the day, the saying âgarbage in, garbage outâ has never been more true. The smarter AI gets, the more important good data becomes. Want AI that feels truly intelligent? Start by feeding it something worth learning from.
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