Bitget’s 2026 Anti-Scam Report Warns AI Is Supercharging Digital Asset Fraud
As the global cryptocurrency market expands, investors are increasingly trading across multiple asset classes, but fraud schemes are also becoming more sophisticated. Criminal groups have moved beyond scams confined to a single platform, evolving their operations into cross-platform, multistage social-engineering traps. Fraud prevention has therefore become critical to the digital asset industry’s healthy development and to protecting user assets, drawing close market attention to the latest anti-scam trends.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said in a report released in June 2026 that AI is making scams more scalable and harder to detect. From July 2025 through June 2026, the platform blocked more than 150 million malicious requests and helped users recover about $32.3 million in assets lost to scams.
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The history behind this eventSolana Security Chief Warns AI Makes Crypto Scams More Convincing
Michael Coates, the Solana Foundation’s new chief information security officer, said the leading threat to blockchain users is shifting away from flaws in smart contracts toward AI-enabled social engineering and fabricated identities. The warning matters because generative AI can make fraudulent messages, personas and interactions appear more credible at scale, challenging an industry whose defenses have traditionally focused on code audits and technical exploits.
Coates said recently that AI is making cryptocurrency scams more convincing, prompting the Solana Foundation to assess post-quantum cryptography and advocate security systems that protect users by default. The approach would move more responsibility from individuals to wallets, protocols and platforms designed to block deceptive activity before funds are transferred. The report did not specify a budget, testing timetable or deployment date, indicating that the post-quantum work remains under evaluation rather than a confirmed network upgrade.
Bitget Launches 2026 Global Anti-Scam Month to Bolster Multi-Asset Trading Security
As cryptocurrency trading expands to a wider range of assets, including real-world assets (RWAs), AI-generated content, malicious smart contracts and new forms of social engineering are making scams harder to identify. Global cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has therefore incorporated anti-fraud education into its trading-security governance to help users recognize risks in a multi-asset environment.
Bitget recently formally launched its 2026 Global Anti-Scam Month, focusing on AI-generated scams, RWA fraud and malicious smart contracts while using educational content to strengthen prevention. In a separate open letter, Bitget's chief legal officer said the platform helped users recover more than $32.3 million in scam-related funds in 2025.
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