Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer group focused on security work around Bitcoin-related software, said it has scanned 150 code repositories and privately disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, according to a post shared by Bitcoin News on X. The group said it uncovered key issues while helping harden wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure after the COLDCARD vulnerability incident. That effort has used about $20,000 in AI compute, a cost covered by OpenSats. Researchers involved in the work are using multiple AI tools, and many of them said open-source models such as Kimi K3 have become the main tools for security research. By contrast, frontier closed-source models from OpenAI and Anthropic were described as more restricted for this type of analysis. The team said it plans to release its AI security tools as open source so projects can keep auditing their own repositories. Researchers also warned that Bitcoin may be only the first sector to face a wave of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, with similar work later spreading across open-source software more broadly.
Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer security group, said it has scanned 150 code repositories and privately disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, according to a post by Bitcoin News on X.
The group said it found key issues while working on hardening wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure after the COLDCARD vulnerability incident. It added that the effort has consumed about $20,000 in AI compute, with the cost covered by OpenSats.
Researchers are using multiple AI tools
The post said researchers are using several AI tools in this work. Many of them said open-source models such as Kimi K3 have become the main tools for security research. Closed-source frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, by comparison, were seen as more restricted for this type of analysis.
Open-source release is planned
Bitcoin Red Team said it plans to open-source its AI security tools so projects can continuously audit their own codebases.
Researchers also warned that Bitcoin may be only the first industry to face a wave of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, and that similar work could later extend to all open-source software.
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