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Will AI Break Crypto Encryption? Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Weighs In on 'Bunker Mode' Shift
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says it is "plausible" for artificial intelligence to break encryption within the next two years. As a result, he believes the industry needs to protect itself from AI-vulnerable cryptography, as well as quantum-vulnerable cryptography. It comes just a day after Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake called on the industry to plan for "bunker mode" by moving funds to addresses whose public keys haven't been exposed. Drake said that it's now reasonable to...
Sep 29, 2026
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Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Three years after pulling the plug, Aztec Labs is bringing zk.money back from the dead. The privacy-focused Ethereum developer relaunched the self-custodial wallet Tuesday, letting users send and receive stablecoins without broadcasting balances, amounts, or recipients to the world. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Users claim a tag such as bob.zk.money, which resolves through the Ethereum Name Service, or ENS, to a deposit address, according to Aztec's posts o...
Sep 28, 2026
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A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
Researchers at UC San Diego and France's Institute for Research in Computer Science impersonated a hardware security module—a tamper-resistant device that stores private keys and signs on request—without ever pulling the key out of it. They detailed the attack in a paper submitted to the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive on September 20. But don’t panic, crypto holders. This is not a Bitcoin or Ethereum break. Bitcoin uses an elliptic curve digital signature algorithm, or ECDSA. (Its curve also sup...
Sep 28, 2026
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Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink today launched CCIP 2.0, the newest version of its cross-chain plumbing—the software layer banks and crypto projects increasingly use to move tokenized money, like stablecoins, wrapped Bitcoin, and tokenized funds, between blockchains without building a bridge from scratch. That plumbing exists because blockchains don't talk to each other. Ethereum has no idea what's happening on Solana. So when a token moves from one chain to another, something has to confirm the money really left one...
Sep 28, 2026
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Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Ethereum's next upgrade will be the last one anyone from 2015 would recognize, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post published on Saturday. Hegota, the fork scheduled for next year, is "likely to be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork," he said. What follows involves recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, heavily optimized consensus and making the lot quantum-safe. The cryptographic world computer:https://t.co/ueayODeUPo My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true mean...
Sep 27, 2026
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Bitcoin's Quantum Problem: Three Ways Researchers Are Trying to Fix It
Every few months, a fresh headline warns that quantum computers could one day crack Bitcoin. This week brought three at once—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—which makes it a good moment to separate the real threat from the noise. First, the problem—and it’s a very real one. Bitcoin secures wallets using elliptic-curve cryptography, the math that links a private key to a public one. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor's algorithm could, in theor...