Industry Leaders Warn AI Agents Could Make Billion-Dollar Crypto Hacks ‘Pocket Change’

The warning shifts the debate from whether AI agents will be used in crypto attacks to how defenders keep pace with automated, always-on adversaries. It lands hardest on custodians, exchanges and protocol teams whose security models assume human-speed reconnaissance and execution, and on the insurance and audit sectors that price those risks. Whether this stays a rhetorical alarm or becomes a design constraint for on-chain infrastructure is the open question worth watching.