The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team can identify and patch them.
Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, says it is disabling its service until further notice after a rise in AI-assisted hacking attempts over the last few months.
In a post to X on Monday, Boltz said the decision came after seeing a steady increase in “automated AI-assisted probing” of its infrastructure this year.
“After reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.”
Boltz’s operational pause highlights the difficulty that smaller development teams are facing, as attackers discover vulnerabilities and adapt exploits faster than they can respond.
“In the past few days alone we saw a drastic acceleration [of attacks] and we do not believe this asymmetry will reverse,” said Boltz.
In July, Solana Foundation’s new chief information security officer, Michael Coates, told Cointelegraph there is a need to switch to automated defenses in the age of AI.
“We’re at a tipping point as an industry where humans cannot scale to meet these threats,” said Coates.
PayPerQ, a pay-per-prompt AI service that takes payment in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, said it has also been dealing with a surge in exploits, possibly AI-powered.
“We’ve been fighting off exploits every other week for several months, most of which we believe are AI-powered. It’s a very dangerous time out there.”
Boltz lets users perform non-custodial, trustless atomic swaps, moving Bitcoin and Bitcoin-denominated assets between the mainnet and different layers of Bitcoin such as Lightning Network and Liquid Network.
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