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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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AI That Builds Also Breaks. The same technology that's supposed to make crypto smarter is, apparently, making it more fragile.
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Industry Scrambles for a Collective Answer. Some DeFi projects are already pouring money into security audits and vulnerability testing.
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What Needs to Happen Now. Amador's warning is basically a call to action. The industry can't treat security as an…
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DeFi is bleeding. Mitchell Amador, CEO of blockchain security firm Immunefi, says new AI models are driving a sharp rise in hacks across decentralized finance platforms — and the…
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Amador's word for it: a "vulnerability apocalypse." That's not a phrase you throw around lightly, and he didn't.
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Amador's read is pretty clear: the rapid deployment of frontier AI is outpacing the industry's ability to protect itself.
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That said, it's not all doom. Amador and others in the space seem to think AI can also be part of the fix — that the same class of tools driving these new attack vectors could,…
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Related: MetaMask Integrates AI Agents in DeFi, Security Questions Persist
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Immunefi sits at the center of a lot of this. The company's core business is finding vulnerabilities before the bad guys do — running bug bounty programs, flagging risks, pushing…
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The frequency of attacks is the part that's hard to ignore. It's not just that individual hacks are getting more sophisticated. There are more of them.
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DeFi has always had a security problem. That's not new. But the AI angle adds a layer that the sector wasn't fully prepared for, and the window to get ahead of it is narrowing.
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Amador's warning is basically a call to action. The industry can't treat security as an afterthought when it's integrating technology this powerful.
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Stakeholders are increasingly aware of this. The question is whether awareness translates into action fast enough.
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See also: AI Trading Tools Grab Market Share as Crypto Runs 24/7 in 2026
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And the stakes aren't abstract. User assets are on the line. So is trust in the broader DeFi ecosystem, which has spent years trying to convince mainstream finance that it's a…
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