arXiv:2605. 29526v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ever-evolving transaction patterns have significantly hindered anomaly detection on emerging cryptocurrency blockchains due to the vast number of addresses and diverse anomalous behaviors.
By Runang He, Tongya Zheng, Huiling Peng, Yuanyu Wan, Bingde Hu, Jiawei Chen, Canghong Jin, Mingli Song, Can Wang
arXiv:2604. 04977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Software supply chain security compromises often stem from cascaded interactions of vulnerabilities, for example, between multiple vulnerable components.
By Laura Baird, Armin Moin
arXiv:2607. 19432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard that allows AI agents to connect to external tools, databases, and services.
By Om Narayan, Rashmi Jyoti, Ramkinker Singh
arXiv:2608. 12864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Public blockchain data enables large-scale DeFi-related analysis, but many existing approaches are application-specific, difficult to scale, or hard to interpret.
By Dorottya Zelenyanszki, Zhe Hou, Kamanashis Biswas, Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
arXiv:2607. 19742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports richly describe real-world attack processes, but their unstructured narratives cannot be directly used for automated attack-path reasoning.
By Wenbo Hou, Ning Hu, Xueping Wang, Jiahao Gu, Wenjian Luo
arXiv:2609.00595v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Safe agents can fail together. Multi-agent LLM systems (MAS) move information, state, decisions, and authority across principal boundaries, creating...
By Rui Yang, Junjie Xu, Zhengyu Liu, Neil Fendley, Yang Hong, Ziyang Li, Yinzhi Cao
arXiv:2608. 05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose large language model agents have achieved strong performance on tool-augmented tasks, yet they rely on assumptions break down in blockchain environments.
By Jiacheng Wei, Zhaoxin Fan, Xin Wen, Yuqin Lan, Dongrun Li, Wenjun Wu, Faguo Wu, Xiao Zhang
General-purpose large language model agents have achieved strong performance on tool-augmented tasks, yet they rely on assumptions break down in blockchain environments. On-chain execution is stateful, adversarial, and economically irreversible, exposing three fundamental gaps: Reactivity, Irreversibility, and Observability.
The paper surveys the growing use of AI agents that modify external state via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, noting an increase from 27% to 65% of tool use. It argues that when such agents operate on public blockchains, the blockchain execution layer’s properties—irreversibility, signing authority, continuous autonomy, and sequence-level composition—reshape the threat model, making failures irreversible. The authors organize existing MCP-security literature into an attack-surface taxonomy, present a Web3 risk-mapping matrix linking attack classes to amplified impacts and mitigations, and conclude that current defenses are inadequate, stopping fewer than 30% of attacks and less than 3% of model-level safety failures.
whyItMatters":"The study highlights that AI agents acting on Web3 introduce irreversible risks that conventional software security cannot address, underscoring the need for stronger, blockchain-aware safeguards."
By Rabimba Karanjai (Larry), Yang Lu (Larry), Nour Diallo (Larry), Wujie Xiong (Larry), Lei Xu (Larry), Weidong (Larry), Shi
arXiv:2606. 26216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CyberChainBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-based agents on smart contract security across three complementary tasks: vulnerability detection, exploit generation, and patch synthesis.
By Jintao Huang, Fengqing Jiang, Radha Poovendran, Zhiqiang Lin
arXiv:2608. 06984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern agent harnesses persist state across tasks and sessions through persistent carriers like memory, skills, tools, and shared artifacts.
By Xiao Zhang, Yusheng Wang, Yuhao Fei, Dongyuan Li, Zian Liang, Liuyu Xiang, Hongxun Gu, Zhaofeng He
arXiv:2604. 17420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Money laundering poses severe risks to global financial systems, driving the widespread adoption of machine learning for transaction monitoring.
By Keyang Chen, Mingxuan Jiang, Yongsheng Zhao, Zeping Li, Zaiyuan Chen, Weiqi Luo, Zhixin Li, Sen Liu, Yinan Jing, Guangnan Ye, Xihong Wu, Hongfeng Chai