REP Labs, an applied cryptography and AI company backed by investors including the Ethereum Foundation, Consensys, Symbiotic, BlackRock, and Mask & Lens Networks, launched its first consumer applicati…
The Ethereum Foundation Formal Verification team, in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, launched better.codes, an open autoresearch challenge that uses AI agents to raise the machine-checked sou…
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing on Aug. 17 and gained restricted access to Claude Mythos 5 for defensive cybersecurity work, plannin…
A new paper from Google Quantum AI, the Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford University warns that quantum computers could break elliptic curve cryptography, the backbone of Bitcoin and other cryptocurre…
Vitalik Buterin published the Ethereum Foundation's 2026 Strawmap, prioritizing quantum resistance, privacy, and native rollups, with a leaner protocol core that can be formally verified using AI tool…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the network has elevated quantum security, privacy, and AI-assisted verification as priorities since his 2023 roadmap, according to a post on X on Monday. Bute…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that two of its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped a sandboxed test environment during an internal evaluation, chained zero-day exploits across two companies' systems, …
OpenAI introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI red-teaming system that helped strengthen GPT-5.6 against prompt injection attacks before deployment. The company reported that GPT-Red succeeded in 84% of i…
The Ethereum Foundation confirmed that AI agents discovered genuine vulnerabilities in Ethereum's core protocol code, including a remotely triggerable panic bug (CVE-2026-34219) that could crash valid…
The Ethereum Foundation conducted AI-powered security audits on smart contract code and discovered genuine vulnerabilities that would have been deployed to mainnet. This real-world validation demonstr…
The Ethereum Foundation fixed a remotely triggerable crash vulnerability (CVE-2026-34219) in the libp2p gossipsub protocol that could have allowed an unauthenticated peer to crash validator nodes. An …
Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team deployed coordinated AI agents against critical network infrastructure, uncovering a remotely-triggerable panic in libp2p's gossipsub, a core peer-to-peer …
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team has been running coordinated AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code, finding real bugs including a remotely-triggerable panic in libp2p's gossipsub…
OKX launched the beta version of OKX AI, a marketplace for AI agents to find work, transact autonomously, and build blockchain-based reputations. The company targets the agentic commerce sector, which…
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team reported that AI agents successfully identified real vulnerabilities in protocol code, including a remotely triggerable panic in libp2p's gossipsub com…
The Ethereum Foundation is deploying swarms of AI agents to red-team its network infrastructure, uncovering vulnerabilities including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p's gossipsub. The AI agents, o…
The Ethereum Foundation announced on July 9, 2026, that its Protocol Security team has been using coordinated AI agents to find bugs in protocol code, resulting in the disclosure of CVE-2026-34219, a …
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith launched a $1 AI-powered smart contract audit service on July 7, using the x402 protocol for microtransactions and ERC-8004 for onchain record-keeping. Th…
OKX launched the beta version of OKX AI, a marketplace for AI agents to discover work, transact autonomously, and build onchain reputations. The platform features separate hubs for developers to list …