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Unchained

How Does Crypto Remain Secure in a World of Always On AI Hacks? - Uneasy Money

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Anthropic's new model is too dangerous to release publicly. It's already found 20 zero-days. Kain, Taylor, and Austin want to know when it finds the first one in a smart contract. Thank you to our sponsors!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MultiChain Advisors is an emerging technology growth firm that has helped create over $50 billion in enterprise value for more than 80 clients, like Pyth, Moonpay Commerce, and Wormhole.  They’re the partner you want when you’re navigating markets and trying to break out from the noise. They help navigate TGEs, go‑to‑market, BD and partnerships, capital markets advisory, PR, media placements, KOL activations and more, driving execution from launch to scale. Visit multichainadv.com. Bitcoin’s application layer, Citrea, launched its mainnet, expanding Bitcoin’s utility to privacy, lending, BTC yields, and more. Citrea enables: cBTC: The first trust-minimized Bitcoin on a fully programmable platform. ctUSD: A native stablecoin for Bitcoin, allowing for unified liquidity. Bitcoin Capital Markets bringing demand, and utility to the Bitcoin Network. Explore the Citrea Ecosystem. Ether.fi is giving Unchained listeners 15% cashback on food and ride apps — and that's on top of the 3% you get on everything else.  Your bank is charging you to use your own money. Laura switched and loves her card! Go to ether.fi/unchained to claim your offer. Anthropic's Mythos model is so capable that the company restricted access to 12 partners and a $100 million compute budget rather than releasing it publicly. It has already identified 20 zero-day vulnerabilities in decades-old software.  Now the question over DeFi: if Mythos turns its attention to smart contracts, what survives? The Balancer V2 hack rattled assumptions about immutability as a security guarantee.  Kain Warwick, Taylor Monahan, and Austin Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation work through what autonomous AI hacking means for protocols built to be unhackable, why skill files are the sleeper development in the agent stack, how a degen farming bot locked funds in an Aerodrome gauge through a single wrong NFT transfer, and what Anthropic's 89% uptime tells you about the infrastructure running the most powerful AI on earth. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Security Expert Guest: Austin Griffith, Ethereum Foundation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Kane Warwick and welcome to Uneasy Money because what happens on chain never stays on chain.

0:04.0

Before we start, nothing you hear on UnEasyMoney is financial advice.

0:07.0

We're just three builders talking about what's happening on chain and we want you to always do your own research before I begin.

0:13.0

You can find all our disclosures at UnchainedCrypto.com slash uneasy money.

0:17.0

And before we begin, here is a word from the sponsors that make the show possible.

0:23.2

Multi-Chain Advisors is an emerging technology growth firm that has helped create $50-plus

0:28.8

billion in enterprise value for 80-plus clients over the past four years. They're the partner

0:34.9

to help navigate markets. Build real traction today at multi-chain ADV.com.

0:43.1

All right.

0:44.0

I'm here with my co-host Taylor Monaghan, security expert, and a repeat guest second time,

0:49.9

Alston Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation.

0:53.1

It is April 8th Wednesday.

0:57.0

Our first segment, so we got the right people in the room here for this first segment.

1:04.0

I think the timeline has been going a little bit crazy for all of the mythos stuff.

1:10.0

The Anthropic has basically said this model is too dangerous to

1:15.1

release. So we have released it to you. And I guess we should probably go through a few of the

1:25.0

things that this model has been doing, right?

1:28.3

It has figured out like 20-0-day vulnerabilities in like decades-old software, which feels a little bit like what crypto has been kind of going through for the last,

1:45.8

like, whatever, you know, six months where all of these old things keep getting hacked

1:51.2

and we're like, this thing's been on the chain for four years. How is it possible that, you know,

1:57.6

we're in this position where, you know, Balancer V2 gets hacked, right?

2:02.6

And then Mythos is like, well, I have hacked OpenBSD.

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