AI agent swarm extracts intelligence on scam wallets
- Around 350,000 AI agents posed as victims of different ages and with different accents on calls, completing more than 2.5 million conversations. They consumed roughly 17 years’ worth of scammers’ time and extracted over 250,000 actionable intelligence items, including bank card numbers, phishing domains, and crypto wallet addresses.
- The intelligence is packaged and passed to banks and telecom providers for blacklisting. On-chain, addresses can only be frozen by exchanges and stablecoin issuers. Apate.ai has raised nearly $10 million in total, including an $8.15 million seed round in August 2026. Its customers include Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
In the short term, this kind of incremental intelligence isn’t being priced in. The marginal factor is that, as stablecoin blacklists expand, OTC fiat on-ramps will tighten. The market will most likely continue moving sideways within a range as it absorbs overhead selling pressure. If risk controls have blocked your withdrawals, comment how many times it happened.
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- Around 350,000 AI agents posed as victims of different ages and with different accents on calls, completing more than 2.5 million conversations. They consumed roughly 17 years’ worth of scammers’ time and extracted over 250,000 actionable intelligence items, including bank card numbers, phishing domains, and crypto wallet addresses.
- The intelligence is packaged and passed to banks and telecom providers for blacklisting. On-chain, addresses can only be frozen by exchanges and stablecoin issuers. Apate.ai has raised nearly $10 million in total, including an $8.15 million seed round in August 2026. Its customers include Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
In the short term, this kind of incremental intelligence isn’t being priced in. The marginal factor is that, as stablecoin blacklists expand, OTC fiat on-ramps will tighten. The market will most likely continue moving sideways within a range as it absorbs overhead selling pressure. If risk controls have blocked your withdrawals, comment how many times it happened.
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