Ethereum Foundation Turns AI Loose on ETH Network to Find Bugs Before Hackers Do
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Ethereum Foundation researchers are using AI agents to red-team critical network infrastructure. The agents helped uncover a peer-to-peer software vulnerability that was later disclosed. AI-assisted audits have already surfaced bugs in blockchain projects, including Zcash. The Ethereum Foundation is using swarms of AI agents to attack Ethereum —before someone else does. In a blog post on Thursday, Ethereum Foundation researchers on the Protocol Security team said they have deployed a series of AI agents against the software Ethereum relies on, hunting for vulnerabilities in cryptographic systems, protocol code, and smart contracts. “We've been running coordinated AI agents against the kinds of systems the network depends on, like systems software, cryptographic code, and contracts that have to be right,” the researchers wrote. “The agents found real bugs.” One of the bugs discovered included a remotely triggered panic in libp2p’s gossipsub, part of the peer-to-peer layer used by Ethereum consensus clients. The issue was fixed and disclosed on Github as CVE-2026-34219 .
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