Mythos Forces Crypto Industry to Reconsider Security Practices

The crypto industry is being driven to rethink its security practices due to the emergence of Mythos, a new AI model designed to identify and exploit weaknesses across systems. This shift in focus is pushing the industry to look beyond smart contracts and into the infrastructure that supports them, including key management systems, signing services, and bridges. Aave, one of DeFi's largest lending protocols, is at the center of a broad recovery effort following losses tied to the Kelp DAO exploit, with over $300 million in commitments raised. Meanwhile, the CEO of Alchemy believes that crypto was built for AI agents, not humans, and that it provides the native infrastructure for a new kind of economic actor. A proposed Bitcoin fork, eCash, has sparked controversy over its plan to allocate Satoshi Nakamoto's copied coins to investors.