Hopefully this is a wake-up call for developers to start leveraging AI for security reviews, testing, and bug discovery.
While incidents like this create short-term uncertainty, AI is likely to dramatically improve blockchain and DeFi security over the long run.
Instead of relying on a small group of elite security researchers, protocols will be stress-tested by millions of AI-driven reviews, simulations, and attack scenarios. The amount of scrutiny applied to critical code is about to increase by orders of magnitude.
If AI capabilities continue improving at anything close to their current pace, the next decade could bring a level of security analysis that would have previously required teams of elite researchers working for days, weeks, months, or even years.
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