Opinion by: Kirill Avery, founder and CEO of Alien

AI-generated voices are already being used in ransom scams. Synthetic agents now trade, vote and interact on blockchain networks. In this environment, the greatest threat to crypto is no longer scalability or regulation; it is the collapse of trust.

As deepfakes, bots and synthetic agents saturate every corner of the internet and as scams increased by 1,400% in 2025, authenticity is becoming a scarce resource.

Scarcity produces markets. Every major technological shift has centered on what becomes hard to fake and costly to produce. In the industrial era, it was energy. In the internet era, it was attention. In the AI era, it is authenticity.

In the AI era, the crypto industry will stop…