Wall Street’s trillion-dollar dilemma: Why AI-powered hackers are keeping big banks off the blockchain
The post Wall Street’s trillion-dollar dilemma: Why AI-powered hackers are keeping big banks off the blockchain appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Traditional financial institutions are preparing to move trillions of dollars of assets onchain, but the risk of hacks and exploits is putting them off, according to blockchain security firm CertiK’s CEO Ronghui Gu. “Right now, more and more institutions are trying to move assets onchain,” Gu told CoinDesk in an interview. “They imagine that, let’s say in 10 years, multiple trillion dollars — even tens of trillions of dollars — of assets are going to move onchain.” The potentially massive migration of financial assets is hitting a wall because, although bankers and legacy institutions want to capture the efficiency of decentralized ledgers, the current operational reality is still too risky for conservative capital allocators. “When they move assets onchain, they need to face all these AI attacks, smart contract vulnerabilities, oracle man