Anthropic's Mythos Is Forcing DeFi to Rethink Security From the Ground Up!

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is reshaping how the crypto industry approaches security — not by exposing new smart contract bugs, but by revealing how small weaknesses across interconnected infrastructure can be chained into systemic, cascading failures. Paul Vijender, head of security at risk management firm Gauntlet, put it plainly: "The bigger risks sit in infrastructure. When I think about AI-driven threats, I'm less concerned about smart contract exploits and more focused on AI-assisted attacks against the human and infrastructure layers" — meaning key management systems, bridges, oracle networks, and cryptographic signing services that traditional audits rarely touch.

The stakes are already visible. Vercel, a web infrastructure provider used by many crypto projects, disclosed a breach this month traced to a compromised third-party AI tool that exposed customer API keys. Meanwhile,…