The Ethereum Foundation has deployed coordinated swarms of AI agents to attack its own infrastructure, running them against cryptographic systems, protocol code, and smart contracts in a bid
The Ethereum Foundation has deployed coordinated swarms of AI agents to attack its own infrastructure, running them against cryptographic systems, protocol code, and smart contracts in a bid to find weaknesses before malicious actors do.
In a blog post published Thursday by the Foundation’s Protocol Security team, researchers confirmed the agents have already found real vulnerabilities, including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p’s gossipsub, which forms part of the peer-to-peer layer used by Ethereum consensus clients. That bug was patched and disclosed on GitHub as CVE-2026-34219.
