AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts

Research summarized in the post shows modern AI models can identify and generate exploits for smart contracts: in retrospective testing they reproduced real-world exploits across 405 contracts (collectively valued at $4.6M), and in simulation against 2,849 recently deployed contracts the agents discovered two novel zero-days and produced exploits worth $3,694. The findings demonstrate that profitable autonomous exploitation of smart contracts is technically feasible and highlight the need for proactive AI-enabled defensive measures.