A new EtherRAT malware campaign using Ethereum smart contracts to hide command-and-control (C2) infrastructure has been identified by researchers. According to a new advisory published by eSentire on ...

Bitcoin’s BTC $73,060.49 biggest limitation just got shattered. A new protocol went live Thursday, making it simple to put the largest cryptocurrency directly to work in powerful, yield-generating ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the crypto industry may be overcomplicating what blockchains are actually good for. In a post on X after attending the Real World Crypto conference — which ...

Ethereum and smart contracts provide infrastructure for decentralized applications in the Web3 space. The main aim of these two is to remove the intermediaries. Future upgrades positions Ethereum to ...

Removing intermediaries with account abstraction is a “core principle of non-ugly cypherpunk Ethereum,” said Buterin. Ethereum account abstraction, or smart accounts, will be shipped with the Hegota ...

Kaspa is doing well in terms of development progress. The project has unveiled major progress toward enabling native smart contracts directly on its Layer-1, a move that could reposition it in the ...

OpenAI has introduced a new system called EVMbench, designed to measure how well artificial intelligence agents can find and fix security flaws in crypto smart contracts. The company announced on Feb.

EVMbench is the latest collaborative effort between OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm. The tool is designed to measure how well AI agents detect, patch, and exploit vulnerabilities in smart ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EVMbench tests AI agents on 120 real-world Ethereum smart contract vulnerabilities. Tool evaluates detection, patching, and ...

Abstract: The proxy design pattern allows Ethereum smart contracts to be simultaneously immutable and upgradeable, in which an original contract is split into a proxy contract containing the data ...

Abstract: Ethereum smart contracts have transformed decentralized applications, however they are prone to a wide range of security vulnerabilities. This paper analyzes smart contract vulnerabilities ...