Robust security is critical in open networks where software controls user funds. Security strategies must evolve as AI’s role ...

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A smart contract security audit is a complete review to find and fix vulnerabilities in the code to protect against hacks and failures. Regular auditing is critical for robust security while also ...

Crypto protocols lost hundreds of millions of dollars to smart contract failures in 2025. Now, the OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a forward ...

AI agents are now being tested against real smart contract vulnerabilities after $3.4 billion was lost to crypto hacks in 2025 ...

A smart contract is a self-executing computer program with the terms of the agreement written directly into lines of code. It is stored and replicated on a blockchain network. Smart contracts enable ...

EVMbench is OpenAI’s attempt to see whether modern AI systems are up to the task of helping prevent smart contract issues.

OpenAI and Paradigm unveil EVMbench, a benchmark testing AI agents on smart contract security across 120 high-severity vulnerabilities.

Algorand warns developers that vibe coding smart contracts with AI tools risks irreversible fund loss and calls for disciplined agentic engineering.

Last November, a user accidentally froze around 514,000 ETH (worth approx. $155 million) in Parity, a popular Ethereum wallet. The culprit was a bug in the wallet’s software, which the user in ...