AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore

The launch of AI-powered security tools like Mythos could dramatically lower the cost of smart contract audits and enable continuous code reviews, potentially changing what the crypto industry considers reasonable security due diligence. The release of Mythos, an AI system designed to autonomously discover vulnerabilities in code, may do more than help blockchain developers find bugs.

It was briefly released earlier this month before it was removed from the American market. While AI can help uncover coding flaws faster and more cheaply, researchers caution it cannot replace human judgment or prevent many of crypto's biggest losses, which often stem from social engineering, compromised credentials and operational failures rather than smart contract bugs.

"It pushes the price of a basic audit toward zero," said Alexander Urbelis, chief information security officer at ENS Labs.

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