Security· ★★★· neutral·

Vitalik Buterin: cyber defense wins only in the long run, transition will be hard

  • —Buterin: good actors finding bugs first is not a defense-dominant model
  • —He urges formal verification and a radical cut in the trusted computing base
  • —He wants more than 1% of global GDP spent on security hardening
  • —The comments follow an AI system finding a server-takeover flaw in PHP
Why it matters: The debate bears directly on how resilient crypto exchanges, wallets and smart contracts are to AI-driven attacks.
Source: PANews