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Mitchell Amador

CEO & Founder, Immunefi

Search every verified Mitchell Amador interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mitchell Amador, founder and CEO of Immunefi, has in recent interviews described the current state of crypto security as a "war" against nation-state actors and professional hacker groups. He stated that attackers are currently winning, evidenced by an increase in the frequency of hacks, and argued that most traditional corporate security leaders are practicing compliance rather than real defense. Amador said that the rise of frontier AI models has made it easier for attackers to create effective cyber-attacking teams at mass scale, and he warned that the internet could face a "vulnerability apocalypse" if crowdsourced security is not adopted globally to harden code. Amador also noted that while smart contract security has improved dramatically—with logic errors now accounting for only 6% of total value lost, down from previous years—the majority of major hacks, including the Bybit incident, are now caused by traditional Web2 infrastructure compromises rather than on-chain bugs. He discussed Immunefi's plans to launch a new suite of AI-assisted tools called Immunefi Studio for white

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“We're at war. We're fighting against nation state actors, not petty criminals for the most part. And number two, we need to be thinking of this as a constant piece of infrastructure that our societies and our economies require to sustain themselves.”

“You can think of the Bitcoin security posture as being like the Great Wall of China, okay? Or or better yet, more like being like the Byzantine walls of Constantinople... it was a very powerful defense, but it was very brittle because it was a huge city. And so, if those walls were compromised, then the defense can unravel very, very quickly, okay? You were basically betting that your outer walls could not be breache”

“We are rapidly converging our world where we can effectively price the cyber risk of onchain systems. ... There's a world that we can get to within I believe by 2030, okay, where effective losses due to logic and code errors are going to be sub 10 basis points of annual resources per year.”

“I have a very exotic view here which is that where I think we're moving towards a vulnerability apocalypse. A terrifying case where the internet in general becomes a live fire zone, a war zone for which there is no turning back from it. And the best tool that we have for preventing the collapse of the internet and hardening it by making the code safe is by using crowdsource security at mass scale to secure and protec”

“The point at which that happens is the point at which states buy or pay us to go and do said work, which is not what they've been doing yet. Until that time comes, we remain a market participant first and foremost. The reality is, the work that we do is critical for securing the livelihoods and the well-being of tens to hundreds of millions of people around the world who are holding and using crypto assets to run the”

“Censorship resistance is a very traditional value in crypto, but we're describing a system where the value proposition is to go against that. Recent events like the Cedus hack and SUI intervening demonstrate that the market is very much ready or near ready to prioritize safety and prosperity over a simplistic commitment to older cypherpunk values.”

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