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Mudit Gupta
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Mudit Gupta's personal blog at mudit.blog covers programming and security. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Creamed Cream – Learn the Secret Recipe (Cream Hack Analysis)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Mudit Gupta's blog for technical breakdowns of DeFi exploits, such as the CREAM Finance hack analysis, and for writing on mixers and transaction privacy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog by Mudit Gupta for discussing Rust lang, Solidity Smart Contracts, Cyber Security, and Blockchain concepts. Mudit is a Blockchain developer and researcher from India.
Most-linked posts?
- Creamed Cream – Learn the Secret Recipe (Cream Hack Analysis)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-29
What Hacker News says?
More info from the tweet author on their blog: https://mudit.blog/cream-hack-analysis/ .
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on “Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack”Submitted Rust Tips and Tricks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFormal Verification absolutely would have helped in this case. CreamFi abandoned the formal spec that Compound Finance used when they forked their code base. Had they maintained the spec and paid attention to the constraints that this spec imposes, the devs would have been aware that some of the tokens added to the platform would open them up to this attack. Had they maintained the standard, they would have been awa…
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on “Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack”Submitted Free blockchain storage – Tale of a bug in Substrate's FRAME runtime as a story · 9 points
HN discussionRather than reading the bird app thread, the same author's technical breakdown of the 29-step attack is a way better read: https://mudit.blog/cream-hack-analysis/ > This was one of the most sophisticated and cleanly executed DeFi attacks. The summary of the attack is that the attacker borrowed $1.5b of Yearn’s yUSD vault shares against $2b worth of collateral. They then doubled the value of the shares atomically by…
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on “Cryptocurrency loan platform implodes in $130M hack”Submitted Poly Network Hack: Detailed Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt depends on your trust model. If you believe in fancy cryptography then shielded zcash is even better than monero. Monero keeps increasing the size of the anonymity set as it becomes more clear to them that modern deanonymization techniques are quite good: https://mudit.blog/mixers-are-insufficient/ Though, of course, neither are perfect, we're going to keep finding attacks on these things for a while: https://cry…
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on “Coinbase Card”Submitted Creamed Cream – Learn the Secret Recipe (Cream Hack Analysis) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cover Protocol hack analysis: Infinite COVER tokens minted by exploiting a bug as a story · 2 points
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