AI-Powered Attacks Leave DeFi on Shaky Ground, Warns OpenZeppelin Co-Founder

Manuel Aráoz, co-founder of OpenZeppelin, a leading security firm in crypto and DeFi, has expressed concerns about the safety of decentralized finance. According to him, the entire DeFi sector is vulnerable due to the increasing power of artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents.

These AI systems have reached 'superhuman capability' in finding vulnerabilities that human auditors might miss. As a result, Aráoz believes that attackers will gain an advantage over projects that rely on traditional audits and manual reviews.

The OpenZeppelin co-founder highlights the 'highly asymmetric nature' of smart contract security. This means that defenders must protect every line of code, while attackers only need to find one vulnerability to compromise the entire system.