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The post Ethereum Tests AI Agents on Protocol Code, Finds Critical Bugs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Jessie A Ellis Jul 09, 2026 16:11 Ethereum Foundation runs AI agents on protocol code, uncovering critical bugs like CVE-2026-34219 in libp2p. Here’s why this matters for Ethereum’s future. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team has revealed a cutting-edge approach to enhancing the network’s integrity: deploying AI agents to analyze Ethereum’s protocol code. In a new blog post published on July 9, 2026, the team detailed how these agents identified critical vulnerabilities, including a remotely-triggerable bug in libp2p’s gossipsub layer, now patched and disclosed as CVE-2026-34219. Ethereum (ETH), trading at $1,624.95 as of July 9, remains the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contract platforms. Protecting its base layer is essential for maintaining trust in the network, which secures billions of dollars in economic activity daily.

The post Ethereum Foundation reveals why AI still fails at finding real bugs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Ethereum Foundation has revealed that the biggest challenge in AI-assisted security research has become proving which reported vulnerabilities are genuine rather than finding potential bugs. Summary Ethereum Foundation says verifying AI bug reports is harder than generating them. AI agents found a real libp2p vulnerability, later disclosed as CVE-2026-34219. The Foundation says human validation and reproducible proof remain essential for protocol security. According to the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team, recent experiments with coordinated AI agents uncovered real software flaws across systems that Ethereum depends on, but the organization said the majority of the effort now goes into separating valid findings from convincing false positives. The team described the results in a technical post explaining how it has been testing AI agents against systems sof

The Ethereum Foundation has revealed that the biggest challenge in AI-assisted security research has become proving which reported vulnerabilities are genuine rather than finding potential bugs. According to the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team, recent experiments with coordinated AI agents…