AI agents want to identify your crypto wallet using social media
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Crypto influencers are taking a preprint, non-peer-reviewed research paper as a terrifying warning about a new unlock for AI agents that allegedly grants them power to deanonymize crypto wallets. Almost all blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum employ pseudonymity in wallet addresses, which are usually presented as a string of characters. Although wallet addresses are just a string of characters, AIs and easy-to-use agentic tools like Claude Cowork and Perplexity Computer are advancing the capabilities of casual users to deanonymize them. According to their research, new versions of AI are gaining the power to conduct large-scale deanonymization by taking in posts by billions of humans and linking distinct usernames using highly-processed probability scores. This is akin to making educated inferences that the person behind one username is likely the same person behind another username. Researchers used Claude tools by the AI giant Anthropic. The paper is a preprint and as such hasn’t been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal. However, its conclusions are potentially disturbing and reinforce concerns about crypto privacy. It can always get worse, Anon. Heed these warnings. Resist as much as possible. This is bipartisan. Everyone deserves their right to privacy. Whether you want to say F ICE or call your homie a homo online — whatever side you’re on, you must fight this. Pay attention. https://t.co/mjEBR5Myhv pic.twitter.com/GmazM3GDF7 — Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 25, 2026 Exploiting a common opsec error Unfortunately, many people re-use the same crypto wallet addresses. Although this is bad practice from an operational security (OpSec) and privacy perspective, the commonplace occurrence allows researchers to glean and infer a tremendous amount of information. Tracing and deanonymizing crypto has been popular for years at Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM, Crystal, Coinglass, and Arkham. However, the use of AI agents to easily link wallets to social…
Filed under: News - @ February 26, 2026 7:29 pm