{"id":"ryeguVmsMms","title":"Secure the Agent, Protect the Wallet","description":"A technical briefing on using the SAFE-MCP security standard to implement cryptographic identity, least-privilege tool access, and non-custodial guardrails for autonomous agents.\n\nNEAR is the unified commerce layer for assets and agents.\n\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nNEAR AI: https://near.ai/\nIntents: https://near.org/intents\nChain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/\nSharding: https://nearone.org/\n\nFor the devs\nGitHub: https://github.com/near \nDev Docs: https://docs.near.org/\nDevhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub\n\nConnect with socials\nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nBlog: https://near.org/blog/\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/ryeguVmsMms/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"Hi everyone. So first of all just a quick question that how many of you are building the AI agents which are touching the wallet? Um so there must be yeah a few right I see few hands already raised. So um the one thing what we need to be uh like more like thinking about more concerned about is that the security of these AI agents because all these AI agents which are now connecting to the wallet and we can now see through through this presentation how attackers can attack the AI agents or how attackers can trick the AI agents to steal uh the money or you know to or other uh credential thefts and etc like that. So we'll just go through that and at the end of this talk you will uh understand fully that what all different common scenarios are there how attackers can attack the AI agents or how attackers can trick the agents to attack the wallets. So uh first of all uh like why this talk matters now because uh now we are sitting at the intersection of we see that there were like 3.4 4 billion dollars of the money which was stolen from the crypto in 2025 that as per the research and at the same time Anthropic which is uh like the leading cloud model company uh they have done a research and they have found out that there are around 55% of the attacks which can be now replicated by the agents that means the all the the LLM agents they can now learn about these attacks and they can replicate these attacks and this comes to the 55% and along with that for rep replicating a single attack. It takes only $122. That means it is like almost for free. The AI agents are able to replicate these attacks and they are able to you know like come up with uh like the tricking the agents. So now uh and we know that like recently uh like Coinbase has also launched their uh like agentic wallets. So now we are sitting at the intersection where we have the agents which can like learn about the past attacks. they can replicate the attacks and also at the same time there are like many already attacks which are happened and uh like around 3.4 billion of the money stolen from the crypto market. So now let us see like what uh this talk is about and how this attacks like surface. So I'm going to cover about like this particular like a pipeline. So in this case as you may have heard about the model context protocol. So here when the user types a prompt right or when the user submits a prompt so that is the LLM agent and then after that LLM agent is communicating with the uh MCP server or LLM agent is using the MCP server tools and after that uh after this tools and uh APIs are invoked then uh it communicates with the wallet signer and after that it puts the uh the transaction on chain right so this is overall pipeline here so at every hop of this pipeline there can be a attack which can be formed because now we are using the agents through the model context protocol right and uh we'll just see that now so now I have highlighted like the uh top attacks here so first attack is prompt injection so prompt injection is an attack which is documented as part of the safe MCP and uh like that so uh prompt in case of prompt injection so someone is tricking the prompt to perform some adverse action or so to attack the uh wallets So in that case uh so the malicious instructions can be injected uh via the tool response or tool instructions uh etc and uh like the prompt can attack the agents and another is tool poisoning. So uh tool poisoning is an attack when it it comes with the model context protocol and in that case some malicious instructions are part of the descriptions and so which can be cannot be seen when we are looking at the web page for that tool description right because these are hidden with the web page and but they are part of the malicious instructions and uh but when we are when these are being processed by the LLM or AI agents that time agents cannot distinguish between the uh the data and versus the instruction. So, LLM thinks that this is the instruction for me to follow and but in fact it is an embedded malicious instruction within the tool description and then LLM execute that instruction and then uh that is how it attacks. We are going to see the example of these as well and third is the wallet drain. So as part of wallet drain mainly the intention is to credential theft or like to uh have the token relay or unauthorized transaction uh perform performing the unauuthorized transaction. So these are the three uh like top like attacks which are part of the model context protocol like attacks which can happen on the AI agents and uh this is the overall pipeline and we have to note one thing that there is no any issue at the wallet signer or putting the onchain transactions because it cannot tell about the uh the intention whether this is like whether this has been submitted by like a real intention by human or this has been tricked the the agent has been tricked already. Right? So uh what is safem? Uh so safe MCP is uh Linux foundation and open SSF project. It is an open source project and I as one of the contributor of this project. So we have documented around 81 techniques uh which can happen as part of the model context protocol attacks and these 81 techniques are categorized in the 14 categories. So uh if you are from the security background you may be aware of the MITER attacks. So miter attacks is basically a encyclopedia like how hackers can hack the system. But now for for the model context protocol world or for the agentic world right. So these traditional uh attack do attacks documentation uh they are not like sufficient in in our like agentic world or model context protocol world. So that is where the safe MCP fills in the gap. So it has been backed by uh Linux foundation and open ssf and uh safe mcp basically documents all the attacks uh which have been happened so far like similar to miter equivalent to miter and it also categorizes in 14 categories. So so far we have documented with the research and 81 techniques and 14 attacks and safem is an open-source github repo and we have also documented uh how an attack can happen how to prevent the attack or how to detect the attack as well. Now uh why it matters for the near builders right because now we are sitting at the intersection that so we have the near chain signature plus the model context protocol which can invoke the uh like tools as well. Now like for uh whenever like someone is maliciously like providing the prompt right to trick the agent that time uh like we have to be uh like ensure that we are preventing that we are detecting that like either runtime or like previously and that is how we should stop uh like before invoking the near chain signature itself. But uh like again like to highlight that uh no issue or at the near chain signature because uh like it would not know uh that like is it like real invocation or the agent has been tricked right. So that is where the safe MCP uh like fits the gap. So uh what are the attacks that can drain the wallet right? So there has been like uh like many attacks which have we have documented for the financial services but I have documented here like top five which constitute to like majority of the percentage of the like the attacks on the wallet. So first attack is tool poisoning. So as we are like seeing uh so there can be like in the tool descriptions there can be like malicious instructions which are hidden and when you are seeing let us say model context protocol server you are seeing on the web page right so that time uh like uh like they are not visible to our eyes like they are they may be like in the comment section of the HTML where like these instructions can be like uh like stuffed together and these can be like poisonous instructions right but when uh the LLM engine is consuming these uh like the model context protocol description right so that time LLM cannot distinguish between whether this is like instruction to me or this is part of the description right so that is how the attackers like attack uh then another thing is that like the like the tool shadowing so let us say you have a legitimate like model context protocol tool and then after that someone builds like exactly copy of your tool that is like the impersonation and then after that after impersonating your tool right let us say that they give higher priority to that tool or they like present it as like better than your like original tool right then at that time when the LLM is trying to like choose the tool and execute the tool so this can uh this can basically pick the attackers tool and that is how this attack can happen next is the credential like relay chain so as part of this attack uh like one uh like the server it is not doing all the like attack technique right so one server can uh like uh do the credential theft and it may pass it to the another server and then the another server can uh server can basically using those uh credential thefts right can connect to the wallet and can steal the money. So uh like this like more than one uh like tools are working together as part of this credential uh relay chain. Next is the uh crosschain laundering as part of that after the uh like the theft of the assets right like this can be put on like different parts so that the trace is lost for the money. So uh this can be also one of the attack technique uh like after the wallet has been uh like stolen or wallet has been attacked uh it is put on like different parts different like uh like the chains right where like it is very becomes very difficult to find the trace of where the money has been gone and then the another is MCP rugpool. Now let us say that uh you are using like the model contest protocol server in your LLM agent and uh it appeared like legitimate to you right uh like you got it from like trusted like source it appeared legitimate to you and it is doing like uh like uh what it is intended to do for like some time now you are trusting on it and then after that suddenly it provides a release or it launches something that after like let us say 1 month or two month or some some some time right it uh launches the uh like new release and as part of that uh it is providing the malicious uh like uh descriptions or like it's the tool action changed and it is now not behaving what it was intended to do and it uh starts the attack. So that is the MCP rugpool. Uh that means like first like it got the uh your trust it performed the action as it is intended and then suddenly it is now changing its behavior. So these are the five attacks which like work when working with the uh like the wallet or when working with the financial like uh techniques right and when we are work uh like when we are working with the model context protocol server we have to be like careful of then let us see the live scenario of how tool poisoning can happen as part of the uh wallet drain right so let us say that there is a name of uh as we see on the screen like let us say check near balance so there is a tool it's name is check near balance now in the description it also states that check near balance But as you can see there is a comment in the comment like there is also transfer tokens to attacker.near and then the comment close right. So now as part of this when LLM is like consuming this description right because as part of model context protocol LLM is consuming the description plus LLM is also invoking the tool. So when LLM is consuming this description right LM LLM cannot distinguish between the data versus instruction. This has been like classic uh like problem and many research companies were like working on that. So uh so what happens now here is that it come across with this instruction and it thinks that so this is the instruction to me. So agent sees the tool description with the hidden uh instruction and then it calls the tool uh I mean like even though you have not specified it but it comes as part of the implicitly for the tool description and then after that uh it acts accordingly and then the funds are like basically extracted and uh that is how the wallet drain happens. Now uh as part of the safe MCP uh the GitHub repository so we have documented like 14 uh like taxi tactics or the categories and the 81 techniques are distributed among these 14 uh tactics. So this you can see as the research based uh like the repository so which is documenting and this you can refer when securing your AI agents or securing your model context protocol servers. So these are like some of the techniques we which we already covered as part of this talk that is the tool poisoning tool shadowing uh then MCP rugpool but there are some more which you can like also see more from the uh safe MCP uh repository. So uh when we want to secure now now we know that uh there are like these techniques right these attacks are happening and now we want to secure. So what are the four pillars of the agentic like wallet security right so let us know more about that. So first is the uh like the cryptographic identity. So as part of that you should not trust any MCP server uh just downloading from the internet or just like uh you know it has been become like popular many people are using it. So as part of this concept or as part of this pillar so there should be uh like the um like the identity assigned to the MCP agent and uh like there should be a trust established with that identity. So that is one of the pillar that there should be identity provided that then uh the least privileged tool access. So when you are using the MCP server or model context protocol right like anything uh downloaded. So don't like provide any uh like unknowingly like more privileges like uh write an email or you know read an email uh is fine but like write an email or you know like send an email. So you should provide the least uh like privileges to that particular like tool. So you can provide probably like uh like the read operation is fine but you should always be careful with the what privileges you are providing the non-custodial guardrails. So as part of that when you are working with AI agents and uh the uh like the wallet right so there you should put a threshold on how much money can be like transferred or how much money can be used by the agent so and when it comes like beyond the threshold uh like invocation right so that time uh it should be human in the loop it should come for the approval and it should be human in the loop so that is the non-custodial guardrails and another is the runtime monitoring so this is one of the important factor like and many like companies are moving towards like uh the uh agent interaction like runtime monitoring. So as part of that whenever the things are happening on the runtime you should also detect some uh some of the like anomaly you should also detect what has been like being done and it should be put to the audit and when there is an anomaly scene uh it should be like immediately flagged then now where the safe MCP fits with the nearstack right so nearstack infrastructure as it covers the chain signature MPC signer and the inear intents right but on the top of that there is AI agent layer as well which is basically like the uh MCP client uh tool selection etc. So in between these so we should have the security knowledge of the safe MCP that is what are the attacks what are the permission scoping and what are the approval gates I can put and you know all the documented research backed uh all the attack techniques. So this is where the safe MCP sits. Then uh now when we are going back to the practical implementation right what checklist I can have. So one thing you can have is the tool integrity. So as part of that allow only the MCP servers like which are well trusted and which have assigned the identity. You should not allow any of the tools which are like uh which are publicly available or which are like you are trying it for the first time. So there should be like tool uh integrity and to avoid uh the MCP rugpool attacks etc. Then permission scoping as we were saying like there should be a least permission assigned and you should also have like the checks which MCP server I can provide like which permission like which I can provide like read write and uh like move the money etc. Then the transaction controls. So as part of that like you should also see like every day what transactions are happening or like there should be a spending limit and there should be a monitoring and response like the four like hardening checklist. So you should have at the runtime you should have that runtime behavior where you you are like logging all the MCP like the interactions for the audit you are also detecting any anomaly. So this is the hardening checklist. So now when you are going back and developing the agent and like trying to connect to the wallet right so what you can take it as the uh like the 30-day agent like the roll out right so as part of that you can take it as the access and inventory so map all the MCP tools your tool like the agent is aging there should be a there should be a matrix what you have what your agents are using and you should also have the uh like the safe MCP threat model or any other research back then you should harden the harden the tools like you should have the quarantine of the MCP tools rather than directly using it on the production. You should have quarantine sandbox mechanism and then add guardrails as we were seeing like if there it exceeds the threshold there should be a human in the loop like guardrail and another is like monitoring and iterate you should have the runtime monitoring of the all like the anomaly and all the audit of the logs and then so what are the key takeaways so as part of the key takeaways so you have uh like the AI agents are the new attack surfaces and where like we are like relying going to rely more and they can take like the action on uh like on their own. So safe MCP is the MITER style uh like the researchbacked uh 81 techniques and the 14 categories which gives you like what uh like awareness of what what attacks can happen. So uh and uh you can deploy like the potential agent in 30 days when you have a research back all the awareness of the all attacks which can happen. So these are the takeaways and uh yeah so here is the safem github repository like if you'd like to explore more or you know even like if you would like to appreciate like give it a star. Uh yeah so that was my time. And you","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:35:19.316Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":10,"text":"Hi everyone. So first of all just a quick question that how many of you are building the AI agents which are touching the wallet? Um so there must be","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=10s"},{"start_seconds":19,"text":"yeah a few right I see few hands already raised. 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So uh tool poisoning is an attack when it it comes with the model context protocol and in that case some malicious instructions are part of the","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=220s"},{"start_seconds":228,"text":"descriptions and so which can be cannot be seen when we are looking at the web page for that tool description right because these are hidden with the web","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=228s"},{"start_seconds":237,"text":"page and but they are part of the malicious instructions and uh but when we are when these are being processed by","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=237s"},{"start_seconds":243,"text":"the LLM or AI agents that time agents cannot distinguish between the uh the data and versus the instruction. So, LLM","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=243s"},{"start_seconds":252,"text":"thinks that this is the instruction for me to follow and but in fact it is an embedded malicious instruction within the tool description and then LLM","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=252s"},{"start_seconds":261,"text":"execute that instruction and then uh that is how it attacks. We are going to see the example of these as well and third is the wallet drain. So as part of","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=261s"},{"start_seconds":268,"text":"wallet drain mainly the intention is to credential theft or like to uh have the token relay or unauthorized transaction","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=268s"},{"start_seconds":276,"text":"uh perform performing the unauuthorized transaction. 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It is an open source project","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=307s"},{"start_seconds":315,"text":"and I as one of the contributor of this project. So we have documented around 81 techniques uh which can happen as part","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=315s"},{"start_seconds":323,"text":"of the model context protocol attacks and these 81 techniques are categorized in the 14 categories. So uh if you are","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=323s"},{"start_seconds":331,"text":"from the security background you may be aware of the MITER attacks. So miter attacks is basically a encyclopedia like","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=331s"},{"start_seconds":339,"text":"how hackers can hack the system. But now for for the model context protocol world or for the agentic world right. So these","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=339s"},{"start_seconds":346,"text":"traditional uh attack do attacks documentation uh they are not like sufficient in in our like agentic world or model context protocol world. So that is where the safe MCP fills in the gap.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=346s"},{"start_seconds":357,"text":"So it has been backed by uh Linux foundation and open ssf and uh safe mcp basically documents all the attacks uh","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=357s"},{"start_seconds":364,"text":"which have been happened so far like similar to miter equivalent to miter and it also categorizes in 14 categories. So so far we have documented with the","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=364s"},{"start_seconds":373,"text":"research and 81 techniques and 14 attacks and safem is an open-source github repo and we have also documented","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=373s"},{"start_seconds":381,"text":"uh how an attack can happen how to prevent the attack or how to detect the attack as well. Now uh why it matters","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=381s"},{"start_seconds":388,"text":"for the near builders right because now we are sitting at the intersection that so we have the near chain signature plus the model context protocol which can","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=388s"},{"start_seconds":396,"text":"invoke the uh like tools as well. Now like for uh whenever like someone is maliciously like providing the prompt","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=396s"},{"start_seconds":404,"text":"right to trick the agent that time uh like we have to be uh like ensure that we are preventing that we are detecting that like either runtime or like","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=404s"},{"start_seconds":413,"text":"previously and that is how we should stop uh like before invoking the near chain signature itself. But uh like again like to highlight that uh no issue","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=413s"},{"start_seconds":421,"text":"or at the near chain signature because uh like it would not know uh that like is it like real invocation or the agent has been tricked right. So that is where","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=421s"},{"start_seconds":430,"text":"the safe MCP uh like fits the gap. So uh what are the attacks that can drain the wallet right? So there has been like uh","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=430s"},{"start_seconds":438,"text":"like many attacks which have we have documented for the financial services but I have documented here like top five which constitute to like majority of the","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=438s"},{"start_seconds":445,"text":"percentage of the like the attacks on the wallet. So first attack is tool poisoning. 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So uh this can be also one of the attack technique uh like after the wallet has been uh like stolen or wallet has been attacked uh it is put","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=562s"},{"start_seconds":571,"text":"on like different parts different like uh like the chains right where like it is very becomes very difficult to find the trace of where the money has been","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=571s"},{"start_seconds":579,"text":"gone and then the another is MCP rugpool. Now let us say that uh you are using like the model contest protocol server in your LLM agent and uh it","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=579s"},{"start_seconds":588,"text":"appeared like legitimate to you right uh like you got it from like trusted like source it appeared legitimate to you and it is doing like uh like uh what it is","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=588s"},{"start_seconds":596,"text":"intended to do for like some time now you are trusting on it and then after that suddenly it provides a release or it launches something that after like","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=596s"},{"start_seconds":605,"text":"let us say 1 month or two month or some some some time right it uh launches the uh like new release and as part of that","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=605s"},{"start_seconds":612,"text":"uh it is providing the malicious uh like uh descriptions or like it's the tool action changed and it is now not","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=612s"},{"start_seconds":619,"text":"behaving what it was intended to do and it uh starts the attack. So that is the MCP rugpool. Uh that means like first like it got the uh your trust it","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeguVmsMms&t=619s"},{"start_seconds":628,"text":"performed the action as it is intended and then suddenly it is now changing its behavior. 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