Humanity Protocol shifts to enterprise AI after $36M hack

Humanity Protocol will shift to building enterprise artificial intelligence products following a $36 million security breach.

The company will move away from operating primarily as a public, open protocol in blockchain and decentralized infrastructure and concentrate on commercial AI work for business customers.

Management cited a reassessment of risk after the breach and a priority to rebuild financial stability and user confidence through enterprise contracts and recurring revenue.

Plans call for reallocating engineering and operations staff from protocol maintenance and community-facing services to enterprise product development, with a stronger emphasis on security and compliance for business customers.

Company officials described enterprise AI work as involving private deployments, service-level agreements and integration with corporate systems, and said those arrangements create more controlled operational environments compared with public protocol deployments.

In response to the breach, the organization plans increased investment in security practices and may commission audits and code reviews before releasing new offerings. The company did not name audit partners or give a timeline for product launches, and it did not outline compensation for affected users.

Humanity Protocol previously operated as an open protocol offering services to community users and developers. The $36 million theft prompted the shift to enterprise AI and a focus on contract-based work and deployments behind corporate firewalls.