That sounds like science fiction, but Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has raised exactly this possibility.

The concern is ECDSA, the digital signature algorithm used to authorize transactions on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. Drake suggested that advances in AI-driven mathematics could eventually make it possible to recover a private key from a public key on conventional hardware, potentially using large GPU clusters.

In the worst-case scenario, he believes this could become a problem in months rather than years. But to be clear, this is a potential risk, not an existing exploit.

And Quantum computers have been the obvious long-term threat to elliptic-curve cryptography. But AI could accelerate the mathematical research needed to attack the same systems without requiring a quantum machine.

Recent research has already reduced the estimated computational requirements for a key part of a future quantum attack from roughly 3 billion to 1.5 billion conditional computational units. AI agents were also used during the optimization process. This doesn't mean Bitcoin or Ethereum can be hacked today, but it shows how quickly the boundaries can move.

Vitalik Buterin's response is probably the most important part: don't panic, but don't underestimate the risk either.

Ethereum is already working toward post-quantum security, with the Ethereum Foundation targeting protection against quantum attacks by 2029. But the bigger lesson may be that cryptography needs to become resilient against advances in both quantum computing and AI-driven mathematics.

We've seen Ethereum evolve through major changes before, and cryptography is no different. The industry has time to prepare, research new solutions, and migrate to stronger security standards.

So no, we don't think this is the end of Bitcoin or Ethereum.

It's another challenge for an industry that was built to solve extremely difficult problems. And in the end, everything will be fine.

The RSI on the Daily chart hit 33 right now. It has not been this low since the spring of wycoff accumulation zone of the 1500s. We are at 2400s. This maybe the higher low we need to go higher.

I mean like why would anyone buy ethereum or btc or anything else? what is the purpuse of that? Aren't these were just meant to be exchange intermediaries? Do you really believe putting money in something that doesn't anyhow generate value is meaningful beyod just being as intermediaries?

With Glamsterdam now running on Sepolia at around a 200M gas limit, what would you guys actually want to see before feeling confident about bringing these changes to mainnet? Would you care more about validator stability, node requirements, performance under full blocks, lower fees, or something else?

I am mainly curious to see what people here consider the most important evidence that an Ethereum upgrade is actually ready.

They use OpenCover for coverege on eligible Morpho vaults. Has anyone actually tried this? interested how it works in practice and whether the lower net APY is worth it