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The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts | Stay Ahead of Blockchain Research📍Cornell Tech, NYC
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AI agents are officially entering retail finance. But their eagerness to be helpful can easily subvert our most trusted safeguard: human approval.

Thanks to @murtuza_merc for featuring our latest research on the subject in @Forbes 👇

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www.forbes.com What To Check Before Letting An AI Agent Trade Your Crypto Coinbase now lets AI agents trade crypto, but a new study shows most AI models raise their own spending limits. Here’s what to check first.
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"The results expose a problem for financial companies developing wallets that let AI agents make payments independently while requiring humans to approve changes to their spending authority."

Thank you to @CoinDesk for covering our research!

coindesk.com/tech/2026/11/0…
www.coindesk.com AI agents gave themselves permission to spend more crypto in a new test The researchers say any approval an agent can reach is unreliable, and built Countersign, an app tying approval to a physical action the agent can’t fake.
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Is 2FA enough to keep AI agents in check?

At @Ripple's Swell, IC3’s @AriJuels sat down with @CoinDesk to discuss our latest research on AI agent security, and the essential role scientists play in keeping regulators informed 💡

Catch the replay: youtube.com/live/pdXbJS8PW…
www.youtube.com CoinDesk Live at Ripple Swell 2026 Day 2 Swell 2026 brings Ripple’s flagship event to New York City, with Sw...
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Human oversight is a core pillar of AI security, but what happens when an agent can subvert the system enforcing it?

New research from IC3 shows the fragility of existing Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) architectures as implemented in a major agentic wallet: