An AI-driven security review of the Bitcoin ecosystem turned up 4,962 findings across 390 projects in about 30 hours, including 85 critical and 635 high-severity issues, according to Decrypt.
The scan was run by the Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer group led by the pseudonymous developer calle, which pointed AI agents at open-source code. Privacy and coinjoin tools, swaps and exchanges, and payments software produced the most serious bugs.
The results land amid alarm over how fast AI can surface old vulnerabilities. Last month's Coldcard incident, in which users lost as much as $130 million to a 2021 firmware flaw, drove the point home.
As PYMNTS reported, AI is "collapsing the window between vulnerability creation, discovery and exploitation."