As hacks pile up and DeFi TVL falls fast, one of crypto's top security executives says AI coding agents have made smart contracts fatally vulnerable.

Researchers argue AI agents must be treated as untrusted systems with least-privilege sandboxing, citing a $500K crypto wallet exploit and risks to DeFi protocols.

As hacks pile up and DeFi TVL falls fast, one of crypto's top security executives says AI coding agents have made smart contracts fatally vulnerable.

As hacks pile up and DeFi TVL falls fast, OpenZeppelin co-founder and former CTO Manuel Aráoz says AI coding agents have made smart contracts fatally vulnerable.

AI-driven threats are reshaping decentralized finance security as experts debate whether DeFi is becoming unsafe or can adapt to advancing exploit capabilities.

A16z crypto researchers tested AI agents against 20 real Ethereum exploits. Baseline agents detected all vulnerabilities; with domain knowledge, exploit success hit 70%.