Fighting token fraud FTW! Way to go @soupsranjan & team @sardine !!
🚨 Excited to share Sardine's latest product suite on AI Token fraud: sardine.ai/tokenView quoted post on X
AI Token is the new gold bar that fraudsters and nation-states steal and launder to distill their own models. Here's how Sardine helps:
1. Bank-grade "Know Your Business" (KYB) and "Know Your Consumer (KYC), so you are not onboarding shell companies set up to distill frontier models
Sardine offers KYC and KYB globally. The same bank-grade technology that protects financial institutions globally from illicit activities is what you get.
2. Signup fraud: We want you to offer free trials and Token credits without losing all those credits to fraud.
The same fraud prevention technology that helps the top fintechs, top crypto companies, top prediction markets and top social media companies, is what you get to protect your credits.
3. Account takeovers that lead to Token theft: We protect API keys to your models or to your 3rd party frontier labs with the same security posture as we protect crypto assets at top crypto exchanges.
We have a two-tiered approach. Detect if a new IP was used to query an API key. Challenge such requests by having the user do a login (where we run our device fingerprinting). We have the fastest growing fraud device consortium (6B+ devices profiled globally).
Fraud and money laundering rings have a nexus - the same rings that steal crypto, gift cards, cars, fintech wallets are the ones going after AI Tokens.
4. Card fraud: Fraudsters use stolen cards to buy AI Tokens, that they can then quickly resell.
The same technology that protects the top retailers from Card fraud is what you get!
Fraudsters method don't change, only what they steal changes:
2005-10: Smart TVs and physical goods
2010-15: Gift cards
2015-25: Crypto
2025: AI Tokens
AI Token fraud has proliferated across the AI supply chain and impacting AI inference companies, neoclouds, AI gateways. In the last weeks alone, OpenCode, Railway, LiteLLM and many others have been impacted.
We are here to protect you and to help you win back trust from your customers. Reach out. DMs open!