CertiK CEO warns AI is giving DeFi hackers an edge as attackers automate exploits, target supply chains, and overwhelm defenders across an increasingly vulnerable crypto ecosystem

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April’s ~$690M DeFi loss month had a common shape: Drift was durable nonces + signer compromise, Kelp was bridge/validator config bleeding into Aave bad debt and an Arbitrum freeze fight. AI makes that stack-wide surface cheap to map: every multisig signer, npm dep, validator set, relayer and oracle turns into part of the protocol’s economic security budget. Formal verification helps the contracts; it does nothing when the exploit path is a bored signer, a poisoned dependency, or a bridge admin key with too much blast radius.

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