The “Gate” issue actually brings up a very important question for the future of the crypto industry.

If AI can already imitate anyone’s voice and video—and if in the future it can even break through or deceive face-scanning verification—what can we still rely on to ensure the security of exchange accounts?
Many exchanges now treat “face recognition” as the final security measure, but AI development is making biometrics easier and easier to forge. The real question worth thinking about in the future is not whether AI can fool face scans, but where the account’s ultimate trust anchor (Root of Trust) should be established.
My understanding is that this incident actually exposes an industry trend:
Face recognition is becoming increasingly suitable as identity (Identity), but less and less suitable as asset authorization (Authorization).
The reason is simple:
Face, voice, and video can all be copied by AI;
Your phone can be stolen;
Your SIM card can be hijacked;
Your email can be compromised.
These are all types of information that can be copied.
What cannot truly be copied by AI is only the thing you actually have (Something you have).
For example:
FIDO2 / Passkey hardware authentication
Hardware security keys (such as YubiKey)
Multisig
MPC (multi-party secure computation)
Cold wallet confirmations for large transfers
Second-factor authorization on an independent device
In the future, exchanges will likely gradually become:
AI can help you prove “who you are,” but what ultimately decides whether “the money can be moved away” will no longer be face scanning—it will be cryptography.
I even think that exchanges should redesign their security systems in the future:
Login: can use AI + face + Passkey, making it as convenient as possible.
Viewing assets: nearly no restrictions.
Withdrawing funds: must rely on authorization methods that cannot be forged, such as hardware keys, MPC, multisig, rather than relying on face scanning alone.
In other words:
AI is making “identity” easier to forge, and it’s also pushing the entire industry back from “trusting faces” to “trusting cryptography.”
I believe this could become the biggest upgrade direction for exchange security systems in the coming years.