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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used X on September 17 to reject the view that a surge in AI-assisted hacking will break cybersecurity, arguing the defensive side retains the structural advantage and pointing to formal verification as the key tool, while noting he keeps roughly 90% of his assets in crypto. The relevant channel is perceived smart-contract and protocol risk premium rather than spot flow: credible progress on formal verification would lower the tail-risk discount investors apply to DeFi and staking exposure on ETH, while a high-profile AI-driven exploit would do the opposite. Watch actual exploit loss totals and whether major protocols or auditors move formal verification from research into standard deployment before treating this as a durable derating of security risk.
As a Crypto signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around ETH.
Original Source: CoinPost
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