Austin Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation ran an AI security race on September 3, 2026, featuring ten AI coding agents tackling 12 Solidity challenges

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Crypto firms cutting staff in 2026 include Coinbase with 14% in May, Ethereum Foundation with 20% in June, and BitGo with 15% in June

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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake announced that leanVM, a minimal zkVM that aggregates post-quantum signatures, has achieved end-to-end formal verification as part of Ethereum's push toward quantum resistance

Blockstream CEO Adam Back warned developers against trusting AI-suggested code fixes without verification following the September 6, 2026 Liquid Network exploit

Google Threat Intelligence Group reported 141 exploited flaws between January and August 2026, noting AI tools shorten the timeframe between bug disclosure and exploit creation

Anthropic demonstrated that its AI-developed exploit for CVE-2026-98432 took approximately 53 minutes to achieve remote command execution by leaking kernel memory addresses before issuing shell commands

Coinbase Chief Security Officer Jeff Longhofer conducted an exercise deploying sixteen artificial intelligence models against the Bitcoin Core codebase, identifying two minor bugs that were patched

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Vitalik Buterin described on X a new 'paranoid mode' for his Pi AI agent harness, combining the Ethereum-based zkAPI payment system, the Tor anonymity network, random cover traffic and a locally running large language model

Phase is an EVM-compatible base blockchain designed to serve as infrastructure for an artificial intelligence agent economy.

Luxor Cloud, which includes the Tenki Cloud agentic platform, provides sandboxes, runners, and automated code review for AI agents, having processed 1.8 million workloads in 2026 as of September 2026.

Phase launched Phase Proxy alongside its mainnet on October 29, 2026 to route AI agent web requests through user-shared smartphone internet connections.

The Ethereum Foundation announced on October 22, 2026, that the Glamsterdam upgrade scheduled for October 26, 2026, on Hoodi would no longer proceed.

The Ethereum Foundation has not announced a replacement activation date for Hoodi or confirmed a mainnet deployment schedule for Glamsterdam.

The BLOOM initiative's scope extends beyond cross-border payments to cover corporate treasury management, trade finance, and payments executed by artificial intelligence agents within preset limits.

The Ethereum Foundation instructed Hoodi node operators and validators to update execution and consensus client software to remove the October 26, 2026, activation.

SEC examiners will evaluate how firms deploy advanced AI systems for investment advice, automated trading algorithms, cybersecurity defenses, and protection against deepfake audio and video cyberattacks.

Phase plans to launch an AI computing service and a service routing requests across AI models in November 2026.

Unlimit founder Kirill Eves stated websites routinely block or rate-limit automated traffic from data centers carrying AI agent requests.

Cloudflare automatically blocks AI agent and training traffic on new domain pages that display advertisements.

Phase Proxy offers website access for AI agents at costs lower than traditional mobile proxies.

Google Threat Intelligence Group reported that threat actors are shifting toward agentic workflows capable of managing multi-stage intrusions automatically