Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake says AI could break ECDSA in "months not years" and wants large holders on fresh addresses now. Custodians would bear most of the cost, and his evidence is a single AI math result.
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Vitalik Buterin said AI-driven mathematics has a good chance of seriously weakening lattice cryptography within two years. He offered no demonstrated attack, and for teams adopting post-quantum schemes the forecast argues for lattice deployments built to be replaced.
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Bitcoin traded near $82,800, roughly 4% below Tuesday's high, as the 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.71% after Fed minutes pointed to another hike. Futures bets shrank at least as fast as prices, the pattern of traders cutting leverage, while an Ethereum Foundation researcher's 'bunker mode' warning split the industry over wallet security.
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Vitalik Buterin's "cryptographic world computer" post sets a target of 8-to-32-second finality against the roughly 200 seconds 12 confirmations take today. The forks after Hegota would rebuild verification, consensus and block construction.
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A contributor's draft would make the validator deposit contract variable length and add a mode to end BLS signatures permanently. It is unfinished, unnumbered, and aimed at a 2029 target that may move.
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build1 publisherOne report L2 pushback on EIP-8141 Frame Transactions keeps native AA out of Hegota's headliner slot for now, and the Ethereum Foundation has dropped its Poseidon hash for standard ones.
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