Artificial intelligence agents are being hyped up as the answer to eliminating the friction involved in navigating crypto and next-gen financial services, but industry heads warn they could do the same for bad actors looking for their next targets.
"We're acting like agents are always good, and I think that's a really fatal flaw in almost everything agentic today," Global Settlement Network CEO Ryan Kirkley said Wednesday during a panel moderated by The Block CEO Steve Chung at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026.
Kirkley said AI agents could allow hackers to break into Wi-Fi networks, passwords and wallets at a scale that has previously been impractical.
"We think these bridge hacks are bad," Kirkley said.
"It's pennies.
