AISec is Here: Backed by Industry Leaders, Led by Forta

As the blockchain industry accelerates into 2025, security is no longer just a feature—it’s a necessity. With an expanding on-chain economy driven by institutional adoption, governments incorporating cryptocurrencies into their reserves and uptick on AI agents,  robust security and stronger compliance are critical to prevent hacks, protect funds, and meet the demands of this more mature market of participants who require secure and compliant environments to deploy capital on-chain.

In 2024, hackers stole ~$2.2 billion, marking a 21% increase from the previous year and underscoring the urgent need for effective security solutions in crypto.

This urgency has catalyzed the rise of AI Security (AISec), a new category pioneered by Forta. By integrating sophisticated AI models for transaction screening and attack prevention, AISec is redefining how blockchain ecosystems defend against threats. Forta is the only project integrating real AI detection models with blockchain security. Powered by a custom graph neural network trained on real transaction data, Forta’s model continuously evolves through supervised learning and ML ops, refining detection to minimize false positives. 

As transactions and AI agents grow in complexity, next-gen AI-powered security is essential to mitigating emerging attack vectors at scale.

Backed by Visionaries, Built for the Future

From its inception, the Forta Network has earned the trust of leading names like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase Ventures, and Blockchain Capital, who share the belief that security needs to progress for blockchain to scale. Their early support helped lay the foundation for Forta’s journey—one that has culminated in the creation of Forta Firewall and the AISec category.

The continued involvement of projects like Plume and Conduit highlights the growing recognition of Forta's critical role in securing blockchain infrastructure. These partners are more than supporters—they’re pioneers adopting Forta Firewall to protect their ecosystems in real time.

Cybersecurity is an underinvested and undervalued sector in Web3. While the top 10 Web2 cybersecurity companies, including Crowdstrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet, have a combined market cap of over $600 billion, the crypto cybersecurity market cap represents only 0.07% of that,  but it's poised for significant growth as the Web3 space continues to expand.

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Forta Firewall: Leading the Charge in 2025

With assets and pools on-chain under constant threat, Forta Firewall is transforming how rollups approach security. Instead of reacting to attacks, Forta empowers ecosystems to detect and prevent threats proactively, ensuring safety and enabling scalability.

Forta’s AI-powered threat prevention solution detects 99%+ of on-chain exploits with near-zero false positives. Building on over three years of the Forta community’s work in machine learning-based threat detection, Forta uniquely performs real-time transaction screening to identify and stop high-risk transactions.

2025 marks a turning point for blockchain security. With Forta Firewall and the rise of proactive security solutions, projects across the ecosystem—rollups, protocols and innovators—have an opportunity to set new standards. 

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Join us in shaping a safer, more reliable and rapidly scalable future.

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