
Opinion by: Ken Miyachi, founder of BitMind
Centralized deepfake detectors are structurally misaligned, brittle and falling behind. The crypto industry needs a crypto-native defense — decentralized detection networks that reward many independent model providers for catching real-world fakes and record those judgments onchain.
The result: Transparency and composable use across exchanges, wallets and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Q1 alone saw $200 million stolen through deepfake scams, with over 40% of high-value crypto fraud now attributed to…

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