Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz says crypto is heading into a harsher security era, where AI will expose weak projects, fake decentralization, and sloppy smart contract design. AI is raising the security bar for crypto and DeFi, not just the attack surface. Immutable financial code needs far more rigor than standard web software. “Straw houses” […]
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Zcash was hit with a nasty reminder that privacy and supply integrity have to work together, or confidence starts leaking fast. A critical flaw in the Orchard shielded pool could have allowed unlimited counterfeit ZEC to be minted without detection, and because Orchard hides transaction details by design, nobody can now cryptographically prove whether the […]
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Vitalik Buterin wants the Ethereum Foundation to get smaller, sharper, and more ruthless about what actually matters: decentralization, privacy, security, and long-term survival. Vitalik’s view: smaller EF, narrower scope, less ETH selling CROPS over TPS: censorship resistance, openness, privacy, security AI-assisted formal verification could make “provably bug-free Ethereum” less insane than it sounds Intermediary minimization […]
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