In a flash loan attack, Impossible Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi) system on the Binance Smart Chain, was attacked for $500,000. Multiple swaps of the protocol's native Impossible Finance token (IF) to Binance USD stablecoin (BUSD) and ultimately to Binance Coin, the protocol's native coin, were facilitated by a weakness in the pool's smart contract (BNB) The assault cost the victim 229.84 ETH, which was worth $500.000 at the time of the exploit.