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Crypto in The Age of AI

We'll be live in 1 hour to discuss the risk AI poses to DeFi security.
Jesus Rodriguez will explore the evolving threat model and the case for continuous, runtime-aware security in DeFi.
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Audit-era security was not built for AI-accelerated exploit discovery.
Sentora's webinar today covers what the new threat model looks like and why continuous assurance is now necessary.
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When you see a DeFi yield, you're really seeing a price tag with hidden layers inside.
Borrow rate.
Risk fee.
Convenience markup.
Platform fee.
Treating them as one number is why so many users misread DeFi lending.
Full report:

Is Frontier AI the Biggest Threat to DeFi Right Now?
Join us Wednesday to break down how advanced AI is reshaping the attack surface for DeFi protocols👇

ERC-4626 guarantees consistency of interaction, not quality of management.
Two vaults can present identical interfaces while operating under entirely different risk profiles. The standard provides infrastructure. Due diligence remains the user's responsibility.
Learn how DeFi vaults work:

Before ERC-4626, every DeFi vault was its own integration project.
Each protocol built custom deposit and withdrawal interfaces that were incompatible with everything else. One standard changed that entirely.
Learn how DeFi evolved:

Institutional crypto market structure is bifurcating.
Arc, Canton, and Tempo raised over $1B at a combined ~$10B valuation this week. Regulated balance sheets need controlled transaction environments, not fully public infrastructure.
Read more on our latest weekly digest:

The next wave of capital entering DeFi will arrive through institutional platforms embedding vault infrastructure into products their users already rely on.
This is how decentralized finance becomes mainstream.
Learn more on our latest article:

Two vaults paying similar yields can expose allocators to different underwriting problems.
Headline APY combines incentive spend, concentrated demand, and structural compensation in a single figure.
Disciplined allocation requires risk-adjusted spread analysis. Our latest report explains how to execute it:

Figure’s PRIME is one of the strongest private credit instruments on-chain.
It combines institutional-grade origination, over-collateralized HELOC exposure, and a proven securitization track record.
But even high-quality assets carry risk. Vault design needs to account for it.
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Billions in capital flow through DeFi vault infrastructure that most users will never interact with directly.
All they do is click 'Deposit.' The smart contract handles the rest.
We cover this in our latest article:

A DeFi borrow rate is a layered output.
The headline figure contains a benchmark, a pool-control response, an access premium, an underwriting spread, and a packaging fee.
Each layer requires separate analysis.
We cover this in our latest report:

43.7% of Solana's active RWA market cap is deployed in DeFi lending.
On Ethereum, that figure is 6.1%.
Assets on Ethereum are sitting idle. On Solana, they are functioning as collateral inside live credit markets. The two networks are not building the same thing.

The latest generation of AI will materially change the DeFi security threat model.
Join our next webinar with @jrdothoughts to discuss the risks, how attacker capabilities are evolving, and what mitigation should look like.
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