Flash loans are a DeFi primitive that allows you to borrow any amount of assets without providing collateral, as long as the loan is repaid within the same transaction.
While flash loans technically exist in the current implementation, their use is rendered impractical due to a high fee setting. The ability to enable flash loans in the future lies with BEX governance.
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