TechFlow News, April 22: According to a Cointelegraph report, the widespread adoption of AI is driving up the number of submissions to cryptocurrency industry bug bounty programs—but it has also led to a surge in low-quality “AI spam” reports, placing a heavy screening burden on protocol teams. Barry Plunkett, Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, stated that submissions to its platform have surged by 900% year-on-year, with 20 to 50 reports received daily. Kadan Stadelmann, CTO of Komodo Platform, likewise noted a marked increase in low-quality and false-positive reports, attributing the primary cause to AI’s reduction in the cost of generating reports.
Daniel Stenberg, creator of the open-source tool curl, has already shut down his bug bounty program outright due to being overwhelmed. In response, industry insiders recommend that teams deploy defensive AI systems to automatically triage reports and implement stricter submission criteria—thereby reducing the volume of invalid reports and ensuring genuine vulnerabilities receive timely attention.
