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I’m surprised folks aren’t already grinding against smart contract security in prod with gen AI and agents. If they are, I suppose they are not being conspicuous by design. Power and GPU time goes in, exploits and crypto comes out.

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There are a great many of them, you just can't see them in the dark forest. https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest

Check the prizes for the bug bounties in big smart contracts. The prizes are truly crazy, like Uniswap pays $15,000,000 for a critical vuln, and $1,000,000 for a high vuln. With that kind of money, I HIGHLY doubt there aren't people grinding against smart contracts as you say.

Of course they are, and they've been doing it since long before ChatGPT or any of that was a thing. Before it was more with classifiers and concolic execution engines, but it's only gotten way more advanced.

As soon as money in larger sums gets involved, the legal system will crack down hard on you if you are anywhere in the Western sphere of influence, easy as that.

In contrast, countries like North Korea, Russia, Iran - they all make bank on cryptocurrency shenanigans because they do not have to fear any repercussions.

There are whole companies that make a lot of money grinding away at contracts. This is a good thing!

I mean they are, the only news here is that Anthropic isn't staffed by ignorant know-it-alls that wholesale dismiss the web3 development space like some other forum I know of

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