Bitcoin2026-08-08 10:40:10Kimi K3 flags 4,962 flaws in 24-hour Bitcoin ecosystem audit as Coldcard fallout deepensBitcoin developers say an AI-assisted security sweep has exposed thousands of weaknesses across the broader ecosystem just as the fallout from the Coldcard wallet exploit continues to unsettle users and traders. A volunteer team said it scanned about 390 Bitcoin-related projects in roughly 24 hours and found 4,962 security issues, including 85 critical bugs and 635 high-severity flaws, calling the state of ecosystem security "extremely bad." The group, now 16 people working in shifts around the clock, is using Moonshot’s open-weight Kimi K3 model, with daily compute costs of about $10,000 covered by OpenSats. At the same time, Coldcard is still urging users to move funds after an exploit tied to a five-year-old key-generation defect led to the theft of nearly 2,000 BTC from more than 5,200 addresses over several days. One wallet linked to the attacker still holds about $36 million in bitcoin, while on-chain messages sent to that address include pleas for the funds to be returned and at least one message offering laundering services for a 10% fee. The overlap between AI-powered defense and AI-assisted exploitation has become a central concern.1780
Bitcoin2026-08-06 09:43:34Bitcoin Red Team logs 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin projects in AI-assisted auditA volunteer group calling itself the Bitcoin Red Team says it has filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin projects in roughly 30 hours, describing the effort as a large-scale ecosystem audit powered in significant part by AI agents. The first situation report, published Wednesday by pseudonymous developer calle, says 85 findings were rated critical and 635 high severity, or 14.5% of the total corpus, with an average of 1.85 serious issues per project and a filing pace of 166 findings an hour. The team said it has grown to 16 people working around the clock, while the report itself lists 17 contributors, including 14 humans and three automated systems. According to calle, 91% of findings came through automated scan intake, though much of the process still involves humans closely guiding the tools. The report also breaks down severity by category, with privacy and coinjoin tools posting the highest share of high-or-critical issues. The campaign arrives as Bitcoin wallet security is under renewed scrutiny following the Coldcard incident, which Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet said showed how AI can now identify crypto code flaws at machine speed.1810
Ethereum2026-07-23 09:20:15Ethereum Foundation Says AI Agents Helped Find and Fix Validator Crash BugThe Ethereum Foundation said AI agents helped uncover and fix a validator crash bug, but researchers spent much of their time separating real vulnerabilities from convincing false positives.480
