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Criminals are increasingly using AI to help them steal other people’s crypto, and it’s an emerging threat vector that investors need to defend themselves against. In April, two major hacks, one against an exchange on Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) and one against a staking protocol on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), stole $577 million in total. And based on the blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs’ 2026 AI-in-Crime Adoption Index, criminal adoption of AI tools rose by 40% over the past 12 months.
You can keep your crypto safe from attackers, whether they’re using AI or not, without becoming a computer security professional. Here are four very quick and easy solutions that you should take today, if you haven’t already.
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1. Let a regulated U.S. exchange hold your coins
The highest-ROI move you can make to safeguard your crypto is to only buy and hold it using a large, regulated, and domestic exchange like Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) rather than using an offshore venue or a wallet app you run yourself.
Major exchanges have the money to pay for large and competent security teams and extensive third-party security audits. Protecting their reputation from the damage a major hack would do is a pretty powerful incentive for the exchanges to have good security practices. What’s more, they usually hold most of their customer funds offline.
And most of the time, holding assets on an exchange isn’t meaningfully less convenient than holding them in a wallet app anyway.
2. Hold ETF shares instead of coins
Holding your crypto is another great move that instantly confers a very high degree of security
When you hold cryptoange, the asset manager that issues the ETF shares appoints a specialist custodian to hold the underlying assets
The advantage of this is that the custodian is responsible for managing the private keys that control the fund’s own coin holdings, which sit in accounts that are not commingled with the sponsor’s assets or with those of other clients. They do that using a cold storage system, which is run on computers that never touch the internet.
So, you get to use their security in exchange for paying the expense fees on the ETF, which are usually minimal.
Source: finance.yahoo.com