Research corpus Credit and stable valueBLC-STUDY-0184

ERC-3156: Flash Loans

A flash lender sends assets to a receiver and requires that the same transaction returns them, plus a fee. If it does not, the transaction reverts. There is no default in the credit sense, because there is no time.

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Authors: Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Fiona Kobayashi, fubuloubu, Austin Williams
Date: 2020
Publisher: Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Fiona Kobayashi, fubuloubu, Austin Williams
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0184
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Cañada, A. C., Kobayashi, F., fubuloubu, & Williams, A. (2020). ERC-3156: Flash Loans. Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Fiona Kobayashi, fubuloubu, Austin Williams. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3156

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@techreport{flashloans2020,
  title = {ERC-3156: Flash Loans},
  author = {Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Fiona Kobayashi, fubuloubu, Austin Williams},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Alberto Cuesta Cañada, Fiona Kobayashi, fubuloubu, Austin Williams},
  url = {https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3156},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/flash-loans}
}

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