MEXC, a 0-fee digital asset trading platform, and blockchain security partner Hacken have released the MEXC × Hacken AI Trading Safety Handbook, aimed at helping users and platforms deploy AI-assisted and automated trading tools more safely, from research and decision support through trade execution.
The handbook follows MEXC’s AI Trading Report, which found strong interest in AI but clear demand for greater control. In the 2026 survey, willingness to use automated trading rose from 55% to 71.8% when limits on funds, positions, leverage, and losses were introduced. The new handbook stresses that safety cannot rely on the AI model alone and that AI-facilitated actions should be checked against separate permissions, financial limits, and risk controls before execution.
It identifies key risks such as credential exposure, excessive permissions, manipulated data, and unintended execution. For users, it sets out five safety checks: Ask, Verify, Limit, Control, and Review. For platforms, it outlines five principles: Guard, Limit, Approve, Controls, and Test.
“AI can make trading more accessible and efficient, but greater capability should come with stronger safeguards,” said Vugar Usi Zade, CEO of MEXC. “AI agents will soon place more orders than people do. Trust in them should be earned the way smart contracts earned it: through independent controls, continuous red-teaming and evidence anyone can verify,” added Dyma Budorin, CEO and co-founder of Hacken.
MEXC, founded in 2018 and serving more than 170 markets, offers zero trading fees and access to crypto, stocks, tokenized assets, derivatives, and TradFi-linked opportunities. Hacken, founded in 2017, has over 60 engineers and more than 1,500 clients, including the European Commission, ADGM, Ethereum Foundation, Societe Generale-Forge, MetaMask, and Bybit.
