pip install red-specter-midas
Autonomous AI agents increasingly control cryptocurrency wallets, execute DeFi transactions, manage NFT portfolios, and interact with blockchain protocols. Every financial operation is an attack surface. MIDAS systematically enumerates and exercises every vector through which an AI agent's financial operations can be disrupted, drained, or weaponised against the networks it operates on.
AI agents that manage cryptocurrency wallets store private key material in process memory, environment variables, and configuration files. A single memory scrape recovers the complete wallet. MIDAS maps every key exposure vector in the agent's runtime.
AI agents submitting on-chain transactions are trivially front-run by MEV bots monitoring the mempool. Without MEV protection, every transaction your agent submits can be sandwiched, manipulated, or stolen. Most agents have no MEV awareness at all.
Mempool poisoning injects fraudulent transaction data into the agent's view of pending transactions. The agent makes decisions based on a manipulated mempool state — executing trades at adversarially constructed prices or losing funds to invisible redirects.
Autonomous agents operating in DeFi protocols are vulnerable to griefing: gas price manipulation, liquidity front-running, flash loan-based price manipulation, and reentrancy attacks on agent smart contracts all paralyse financial operations without direct theft.
AI agent plugin ecosystems increasingly expose connections to cryptocurrency mixing, darknet marketplaces, and unregulated exchange bridges. MIDAS enumerates these exposure chains and maps the money flow paths that regulatory frameworks cannot see.
Every on-chain action taken by an AI agent is permanently recorded and traceable. MIDAS models the transaction graph exposure — mapping how an agent's financial history can be reconstructed, attributed, and used for targeted follow-on attacks.
Ten subsystems. Each one attacks a distinct layer of AI agent cryptocurrency operations. From wallet reconnaissance to mempool manipulation to darknet bridging — MIDAS covers the complete financial disruption kill chain. Destructive operations require FORGE gate override.
| # | Subsystem | Command | What It Does | Clearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | SCAN | midas scan | Enumerates cryptocurrency wallet exposure in AI agent deployments. Maps wallet addresses, private key storage locations, key derivation paths, and on-chain transaction history linkage. | Standard |
| 02 | DRAIN | midas drain | Simulates wallet drain attack vectors. Tests key extraction from memory, config leakage, signing oracle exploitation, and transaction replay. Requires FORGE gate for execution against non-owned wallets. | FORGE Override |
| 03 | INTERCEPT | midas intercept | Models transaction interception vectors. Tests for transaction malleability, signature reuse, RPC endpoint MITM exposure, and unsigned transaction relay paths that allow fund redirection. | Standard |
| 04 | GRIEF | midas grief | Executes grief attack simulations. Gas price auction manipulation, liquidity pool front-running, flash loan price oracle manipulation, and reentrancy path enumeration on agent-controlled smart contracts. | FORGE Override |
| 05 | SANDWICH | midas sandwich | MEV sandwich attack simulation against AI agent transaction flows. Models front-run and back-run transaction positioning, slippage exploitation, and DEX arbitrage vectors that drain value from agent trades. | FORGE Override |
| 06 | TRACE | midas trace | On-chain transaction graph analysis. Reconstructs agent wallet cluster graphs, traces fund flows across addresses, maps exchange deposit attribution, and identifies de-anonymisation vectors. | Standard |
| 07 | MEMPOISON | midas mempoison | Mempool poisoning attack simulation. Injects crafted transactions to manipulate agent mempool state, tests for RPC endpoint spoofing acceptance, and models pending transaction replay manipulation vectors. | FORGE Override |
| 08 | PLUGIN | midas plugin | Audits AI agent plugin marketplaces for cryptocurrency bridge exposure. Enumerates DeFi protocol connections, identifies unauthorised signing permissions, and maps plugin-to-wallet access chains. | Standard |
| 09 | DARKNET | midas darknet | Maps darknet market and cryptocurrency mixer exposure chains reachable from AI agent plugin ecosystems. Identifies mixing service connections, cross-chain bridge paths, and unregulated exchange exposure. | Restricted |
| 10 | REPORT | midas report | Aggregates all subsystem findings into a unified financial risk report. FATF typology mapping, on-chain evidence chains, Ed25519 signed, RFC 3161 timestamped. AI Shield rule generation for transaction integrity enforcement. | Standard |
Red Specter MIDAS is intended for authorised security research and AI agent financial attack surface assessment only. Executing wallet drain simulations, MEV sandwich attacks, mempool manipulation, or grief operations against cryptocurrency systems you do not own or have explicit written authorisation to test may violate the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (UK), Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (US), Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (UK), and applicable financial crime legislation. Darknet mapping operations require explicit operator scope approval. Always obtain written authorisation before conducting financial security assessments. Apache License 2.0.