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Ethereum News: The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team, in a July 9, 2026, post authored by Nikos Baxevanis, has published a detailed account of running coordinated AI agents against Ethereum’s core protocol code, including systems software, cryptographic libraries, and contracts، and the headline result is methodological, not just the vulnerability they disclosed. The agents found a real bug: a remotely-triggerable panic in libp2p’s gossipsub layer, the peer-to-peer substrate that all Ethereum consensus clients depend on, now patched and publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-34219. But Baxevanis frames that disclosure as secondary to a more durable insight about where security research time actually goes when agents enter the pipeline. EXPLORE: Next Crypto to Explode in Q3 Ethereum News: The Bottleneck Shifted, Not Disappeared The post’s central argument is precise: AI agents are searc
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Key highlights: The Ethereum Foundation has tested AI agents in a cybersecurity role The AI agents found real bugs in the shortest time possible, with the Foundation warning that security researchers are still required Ethereum is now bracing for its biggest network improvements since The Merge The Ethereum Foundation has announced a raft of positives after testing the capabilities of AI agents in spotting security vulnerabilities on the Ethereum network. Despite the successes, the Ethereum Foundation disclosed that AI agents are not replacements for security researchers as the network braces for seismic changes. Ethereum Foundation unleashes AI agents to spot vulnerabilities According to a blog post by the research nonprofit, the experiments with coordinated AI agents for identifying network vulnerabilities recorded impressive success levels. Right off the bat
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Huang says AI agents move engineers from routine coding to system design and automation. Agentic systems create new skills as developers build AI tools for workplace tasks. Huang rejects extreme AI fears and urges balanced warnings from technology leaders. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI is changing software engineering by moving developers away from repetitive coding. He said engineers are now building agents, systems, and tools that could automate complex work across the workplace. In an interview published by Nvidia on Wednesday, Huang said “agentic systems” are creating a new category of technical skills. He said many software engineers are now working on agents instead of routine coding tasks. AI Agents Redefine Software Engineering Roles Huang said agentic systems are creating new technical skills, with many software engineers now focused on building agents. He add
The post Cardano Price Prediction: Hoskinson Calls Ethereum’s EUTXO Move a Crime as ADA Holds the 20-Day EMA appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Hoskinson called reports of his retirement “categorically untrue” and a complete fabrication He accused the Ethereum Foundation of copying Cardano’s EUTXO model without acknowledgment ADA is holding above the 20-day EMA at $0.1682 after a bullish RSI divergence formed at the June lows Cardano trades at $0.1667 on July 10, up 0.24% and clinging to support after a week dominated by US-Iran volatility, a retirement rumor, and a public confrontation with the Ethereum Foundation. Is ADA Finding Support At The 20-Day EMA? ADA 1D Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart shows ADA sitting just above the 20-day EMA at $0.1682, a level that has acted as the pivot point throughout this recovery from the June low near $0.14. Price dipped to $0.1656 intraday before recovering, and the RSI divergence tool shows a bullish signal still active at 47
The post Ripple joins the x402 agentic payments push. The machine-to-machine bet appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the web’s original design, the 402 Payment Required status code, to let AI agents pay for services autonomously, per call, with no accounts and no cards. Ripple has moved to put the XRP Ledger and RLUSD inside that standard, betting that when machines become the economy’s newest customers, they will settle on its rails. Summary Ripple is integrating the XRP Ledger and RLUSD with the x402 payment standard to support autonomous AI agents making on chain payments. The analysis finds RLUSD is likely to handle most settlement flows while XRP could benefit through transaction fees, liquidity routing and wallet reserve requirements. The long term opportunity depends on whether machine to machine payments gain broad adoption and whether Ripple can capture enterprise settlement activity ahead of competing networks. This is the honest
The post OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents. These days, AI agents negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop, but as with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements. The problem is that agentic systems have no way to settle these disputes, and traditional courts are not built to handle such cases. Hence the need for the 27-firm-backed protocol, led by the Genlayer Foundation, which makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable, according to a press release. Agentic commerce is not prepared for the potential fallout when agents disagree at machine speed, according to David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation. “Internet Court is the shared plac
The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the web’s original design, the 402 Payment Required status code, to let AI agents pay for services autonomously, per call, with no accounts and no cards. Ripple has moved to put the…
The post Ethereum Foundation Shuts Down Protocol Support Team After Half-Decade Run appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Key Highlights Protocol Support team at Ethereum Foundation officially disbanded after half a decade of operations. Team facilitated critical network upgrades, developer conferences, and proposal advancement processes. Instrumental in shepherding Ethereum through landmark transitions including The Merge, Dencun, and Pectra. Fellowship program cultivated next-generation contributors for protocol advancement and client development. Responsibilities now distributed throughout foundation’s reorganized framework. After five years of operations, the Ethereum Foundation has officially closed its Protocol Support division, which served as a central hub for network upgrade coordination and developer education initiatives. This dissolution comes as part of a broader organizational transformation that has streamlined personnel and restructured the foundation’s operational bluep
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