Bitget Wallet said on Nov. 10 that it is widening its AI-assisted threat detection after the signing requests it flagged for phishing risk rose 7.4-fold quarter over quarter. The wallet's weekly average of flagged requests reached about 37,000 in Q3 2026, up from roughly 5,000 in Q2, figures the company disclosed.

Phishing remains one of the most common threats facing users of self-custody crypto wallets. In a typical phishing scheme, attackers trick users into signing malicious transactions or token approvals that hand over assets or grant permissions to attacker-controlled contracts. Such requests are often crafted to look like routine interactions with decentralized applications, making them difficult for users to distinguish without automated checks. Because such attacks are confirmed at the signature step, wallet-side risk screening has become a key line of defense: flagged requests are surfaced to users before they confirm a signature, while a malicious request can still be rejected.

Bitget Wallet is a self-custody Web3 wallet that supports multiple blockchains. Its AI-assisted detection system analyzes incoming signing requests and warns users when a request shows characteristics associated with phishing, before the transaction is signed and irreversibly submitted on-chain.

The Q3 2026 figures indicate a sharp escalation in the volume of risky signing requests encountered by the wallet's user base relative to the previous quarter. Because the metric counts requests caught at the screening stage before signing, quarter-to-quarter changes in it offer a direct view of the phishing activity reaching the wallet's users, and the company's disclosures on flagged-request volumes as the expanded detection rollout proceeds would show whether the trend persists.

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