Binance's AI-powered risk control infrastructure has prevented approximately $10.53 billion in potential user losses between early 2025 and Q1 2026, protecting more than 5.4 million users, according to a security report released by the exchange. The figures underscore how aggressively the world's largest crypto exchange by volume has leaned into machine-learning defenses as threat actors increasingly weaponize AI themselves.
In Q1 2026 alone, Binance said it blocked around 22.9 million scam and phishing attempts involving nearly $1.98 billion in protected funds — a pace that suggests the volume of AI-driven attacks is accelerating, not plateauing. The exchange has deployed more than 100 AI models targeting deepfakes, phishing campaigns, and AI-powered social engineering, the categories that have proven hardest for traditional rule-based systems to catch.
For retail users, the scale of…
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