A security warning from Manuel Aráoz, co-founder and former CTO of smart contract auditing firm OpenZeppelin, has intensified concerns about AI-driven threats to decentralized finance. On May 27, Aráoz advised investors to exit all DeFi positions, citing the growing risk posed by autonomous AI agents capable of identifying and exploiting protocol vulnerabilities at scale. His warning comes amid a difficult period of high-profile hacks across the sector, which holds approximately $148 billion in total value locked. The intervention by a prominent security figure has elevated what might otherwise be isolated incidents into a systemic question: whether DeFi's existing audit and monitoring infrastructure is equipped to defend against AI-powered attack vectors that can operate faster and more adaptively than traditional exploits.
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