DMind AI Study Finds No AI Model Ready for Web3 Safety Tasks

Jun 1, 2026
DMind AI, working with Zhejiang University and Nanyang Technological University, tested 31 major AI models and found none suitable for safety-critical Web3 use cases. The results will be presented at KDD 2026 in Korea.

DMind AI, in collaboration with researchers from Zhejiang University and Nanyang Technological University, announced in a press release that its paper "DMind Benchmark: Toward a Holistic Assessment of LLM Capabilities across the Web3 Domain" has been accepted at KDD 2026. The conference will take place in Jeju, Korea, from August 9 to 13, 2026.

The DMind Benchmark evaluated 31 leading AI systems, including GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Qwen, using 3,543 expert-level questions across Web3-related domains. The study found that no model is suitable for safety-critical applications in Web3. Performance was especially weak in areas such as security vulnerability detection and token economics reasoning.

According to the results, even top-performing systems showed capability gaps that would be unacceptable in real-world Web3 auditing or governance scenarios. The research team concluded that reasoning performance remains a key limitation for current AI systems.

The dataset and evaluation toolkit used in the study are publicly available on Hugging Face at https://huggingface.co/datasets/DMindAI/DMind_Benchmark.

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