AI math breakthroughs have Ethereum researchers debating how fast wallet security could collapse
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-08
- Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urges the crypto industry to prepare a "bunker mode" for a scenario where AI-driven math breakthroughs could break wallet signature schemes (like ECDSA) within months.
- Vitalik Buterin broadly agrees but warns against rushed migrations, saying he has personally lost more money to botched transitions than to hacks.
- ECDSA has not actually been broken in practice yet, but the debate highlights growing concerns about how quickly AI advances could compress the timeline for cryptographic failures.
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