London, England, UK – August 2025. A photo illustration of a physical silver Bitcoin collectible August 27 2025. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)
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Impersonation and AI-driven scams are emerging as one of crypto’s biggest security threats, according to Chainalysis data, which puts on-chain inflows to crypto scams at a minimum of $14 billion in 2025. Not all of that is AI. Rime Salmi, founder and CEO of Fractl, told us in an interview, “There are a lot of people who are posing as investors and they’re absolutely not. They’re looking for investments or grifting actually.” Salmi said the technology itself blurs the line: “AI is a big buzzword, but we don’t know where the human fits in that anymore. Are we okay with one person…
