Opinion by: Steven Smith, head of protocol and applied research, tools for humanity
Blockchains are designed as transparent, decentralized and accessible systems. The AI’s age has, however, introduced significant new challenges. Nearly half of all Internet traffic are formed by bots, with up to 80% of blockchain transactions now automatically and AI agents provide most onchain activity.
While some bots serve legitimate and varied -benefit goals, others – such as those used for Airdrop farming and fake account creation – clog networks, drive fees, and monopoly of space and resources.
It is up to people to protect blockchains that we know and love, ensuring that people are not fairly not replacement of automatic systems, insulated from the impact of the highest that can be attacked by value and exploitation, and free from the need to pay significant gas fees to be included in a block.
Here’s the bot takeover
AI bots become more important to networks and capable of more sophisticated exploitation, dominant Trade volumes, driving gas fees, and manipulation of financial decentralized markets (DEFI).
In some cases, networks have seen failure rates Surge past 75% due to bot-induced congestion. Even the Ethereum membool is increasingly flooding with automatic transactions, forcing human users to compete for difficult block space.
The problem extends beyond the blockchain networks – it affects the entire economy. AI -powered bots are set to interrupt traditional banking and financial services, threatening the foundations itself on how to manage money and conduct transactions.
Just a few hours before the bad actor starts to deploy new AI-driven fraud tools, creating an unprecedented security nightmare for financial institutions, businesses and users.
It has begun. AI-driven botnets fuel a 55% attack on distributed decline-service (DDOs) attack against the banking and financial service industry during 2024.
If the action is not taken, people are at risk for Ceding control of both decentralized and traditional financial systems in automatic systems that are optimized for speed and size -not fair or accessible.
Scalability only will not solve this problem
So far, the response to these issues is focused on scalability. Layer-2 solutions, rollups and high performance implementation clients make transactions faster and cheaper.
SCALE without focusing on human users, however, leads to accidental consequences. Lower fees mean attacks can cause a lot of sadness for minimal expenses, and bots are easier to flood the networks. Meanwhile, faster transactions mean that AI entrepreneurs can faster human investors.
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It played over and over again. A spam attack on Zcash is seriously disturbing its blockchain. During its token launch, the Manta Network Suffered a DDOS attackslowing down and frustrating users. In Ethereum, bots were used to manipulate gas prices during high-traffic periods, resulting in delays of transactions and increased transaction fees for real people.
While scalability is critical, it is equally important to prioritize another major blockchain design element: Proof-of-Human.
Proof-of-Human infrastructure
The proof-the-man infrastructure is a digital mechanism that proves a person’s personality and uniqueness. This is the key to keeping control of blockchain systems in human hands, giving real people the power to ensure that blockchains do not automatically play playgrounds for bots – especially as AI agents continue to measure.
Proof-of-human systems ensure that blockchain architecture changes with a person’s first approach. Networks should provide a guaranteed block space for verifying human users, ensuring that automatic trading bots do not push important transactions.
Introducing gas subsidies for human users can also prevent them from being priced during periods of severe network congestion. Optimized implementation clients can enhance efficiency while implementing protests against bot-driven spam.
Blockchain architecture has taken amazing -spectacular scalability measures, interoperability and security. We also need to ensure positive experiences for people. As an industry, it is important to provide the ability to distinguish between real people and bots online to ensure that the sector can continue to grow in the long run.
The choice is ours. We allow non -productive bots to occupy our networks, push human users and overthrow the basic commitment of decentralization. Or, we can implement the necessary parameters to maintain human-centric blockchains and ensure more control over productive bots, ensuring fair access, security and maintenance.
Now it’s time to act. The future of the blockchain and bringing more people to the onchain depends on it.
Opinion by: Steven Smith, head of protocol and applied research, tools for humanity.
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