Many institutions have already integrated AI into their workflows, and more are on their way. According to IDC's research report, by 2027, the usage of AI Agents among Global 2000 companies is expected to increase tenfold, and API and Token invocation related to Agents will increase a thousand times.

However, when institutions invoke Skills, their biggest concern is security, especially regarding financial transactions, data breaches, and compliance risks. Once they encounter a "toxic" Skill, the consequences include huge losses and collapsed trust.

Therefore, security screening for Skills is a necessity for institutions, which aligns perfectly with the focus of CertiK Skill Scanner, particularly its specialized protection against financial execution risks, matching institutional-level security needs.

Of course, recognizing an opportunity and being able to seize it are two different things.

In terms of institutional services, CertiK is not a "newbie".

For a long time, CertiK's official website has showcased a range of audiences including Web3 projects, institutions/enterprises, exchanges/custodians, and regulatory bodies and compliance departments.

Mapping the institutional services provided by CertiK, a comprehensive approach from technology, compliance to AI has already formed.

On the technical side, it covers core needs from code auditing, penetration testing to proof of reserves, spanning from foundational security guarantees to asset transparency.

On the compliance side, VARA compliance solutions and DORA and MiCA compliance consulting services help institutions establish more robust compliance paths across different jurisdictions.

On the AI side, in addition to CertiK Skill Scanner, CertiK also launched AI Auditor in April this year, supporting direct embedding into development workflows, achieving high accuracy and low false positive rates in vulnerability detection, with precision reaching 88.6% in real security event testing, together forming the twin pillars of CertiK's AI security product line.

This comprehensive approach has attracted notable participants such as Ant Group, Binance, as well as several banks, funds, custodial institutions, and regulatory technology entities to become distinguished guests on CertiK's cooperation list.

As more institutions show interest in on-chain capabilities, CertiK has publicly stated multiple times that its service targets are rapidly shifting from Web3 projects to traditional financial institutions and regulatory compliance entities.

Of course, compared to the results of institutional collaboration, people are more curious about why institutions trust CertiK.

As a leader in the security field, CertiK truly possesses capabilities and foundations that others find hard to catch up with in a short time.

With over 5,167 clients, having discovered over 180,000 code vulnerabilities, and protecting digital assets exceeding $600 billion,

a series of data on CertiK's official website reflects its ten years of deep cultivation in the security domain, and propels "Audited by CertiK" to become an important label for numerous Web3 projects to gain user trust.

Behind such industry reputation is CertiK's top-tier technical gene.

Leading CertiK's direction are two co-founders, Ronghui Gu, an associate professor of computer science at Columbia University, and Zhong Shao, a professor and department chair at Yale University, both hailing from the world's highest academic rankings.

They led the team to bring the most rigorous formal verification methodologies from academia into the Web3 security space, forging CertiK's core technical advantages, and have received official recognition from Apple five times for discovering critical vulnerabilities in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS, strongly demonstrating that their security capabilities are not limited to the Web3 context.

Moreover, compliance is the threshold for institutional trust, and CertiK has also achieved significant results in this regard.

Currently, CertiK has completed SOC 2 Type II audits and ISO 27001 certification, making it one of the most important considerations for traditional financial institutions when choosing security service providers.

In addition, CertiK has established cooperative relationships with major global regulatory bodies, including the U.S. Congress, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, the South Korean government, Abu Dhabi Global Market, and the Japanese Financial Services Agency. Its co-founder, Ronghui Gu, was the only Web3 representative in the MAS advisory group, actively participating in the formulation and implementation of global regulatory policies.

This positions CertiK not only to provide security guarantees from a technical standpoint but also to understand what institutions truly need within regulatory and compliance frameworks.

By thoroughly reviewing technology, compliance, and experience, we will find that we cannot evaluate CertiK through a single product; what it aims to do is not limited to the Web3 space or the standardized security entry layer for AI Skills. From the outset, CertiK's goal has remained unchanged:

To become the security infrastructure of the digital economy era.

CertiK Skill Scanner is CertiK's ticket to transform ten years of security expertise into industry standards for the AI era;

and institutions are the first cornerstone of this bet.

Standing at the starting point, gaining insight into CertiK's continuous evolution

Of course, becoming the security infrastructure of the digital economy era cannot be achieved overnight.

At this time, the roadmap becomes key information for observing project strategy implementation.

Regarding the soon-to-launch CertiK Skill Scanner, the upcoming direction is obvious:

On one hand, it involves broader ecological cooperation, further allowing the security standards led by CertiK Skill Scanner to permeate more Skill platforms, making "CertiK Security Score" a standard signal for Skill listing.

On the other hand, it is about filling the ordinary user participation entry, which is a critical step for Skill Scanner to transition from "institutional tool" to "universal security layer".

Of course, we also note that even before the launch of CertiK Skill Scanner, CertiK published an article:

Skill Scanning Is Not a Security Boundary.

The article emphasized: simply relying on static scanning is not sufficient to form a complete security boundary for the era of AI Agents.

This later became the core differentiated advantage of CertiK Skill Scanner.

But the article also emphasized:

CertiK positions CertiK Skill Scanner as the first security threshold in the AI security system, aiming to ensure that third-party Skills undergo basic risk identification and security assessment before being genuinely used by platforms, enterprises, or users.

In the future, as AI Agents enter more complex real-world execution scenarios, there is abundant espaço for CertiK's AI security products regarding risk identification, scoring systems, and reporting capabilities.

This almost plainly hints at CertiK's entire AI Agent security layout:

Expanding coverage to more AI scenarios beyond scanning access;

Developing more AI functionalities or products beyond AI Auditor and CertiK Skill Scanner;

Gradually building a complete security stack aimed at the AI Agent era beyond standalone tools.

And currently, CertiK Skill Scanner is just the starting point of this roadmap.

Conclusion

From what has been done in the past to what will be done in the future, this is a complete story about "in the digital economy era, who guarantees security".

In the past decade, CertiK has proven itself capable of backing code, contracts, and on-chain assets.

Now that AI Agents are starting to perform tasks for people, new security boundaries are emerging, and CertiK is continuing to push these boundaries:

From protecting on-chain assets to protecting AI invocations;

From institutional adoption to becoming a security foundation in the operation of the digital economy.

This is a company that has already established itself as an industry leader, leveraging a decade of accumulation to bet on the next decade's industry security standards.

Although standing at the starting point of the next ten years of the story, we can currently only see the strategic layout and the initial shapes of products and ecosystems.

However, this does not hinder everyone’s expectation for "not self-bearing risks anymore, but rather mechanisms guaranteeing it" in the future of the digital economy.

"Audited by CertiK" has helped countless Web3 projects gain user trust;

Will "Scanned by CertiK" become the next passport of the AI era?

CertiK is attempting to provide the industry with a clear answer through continuous product iteration and institutional adoption.