As hacks pile up and DeFi TVL falls fast, one of crypto's top security executives says AI coding agents have made smart contracts fatally vulnerable. OpenZeppelin CEO Manuel Aráoz warned that he now considers all of DeFi unsafe, arguing that AI coding agents have become “superhuman” at finding vulnerabilities in smart contracts. His comments come amid a sharp decline of more than $20 billion in DeFi’s total value locked this year and over $1.1 billion lost to hacks in the past 12 months, i…
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