Formal verification is becoming for developers what coding became for everyone.
Many people have claimed that with AI-assisted bug finding, secure code (and hence trustless anything) will be impossible.
I have a much more optimistic take, and AI-assisted formal verification is a major part of the reason why:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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Many people have claimed that with AI-assisted bug finding, secure code (and hence trustless anything) will be impossible.
I have a much more optimistic take, and AI-assisted formal verification is a major part of the reason why:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
Daejun Park retweeted
CLAP lets you write a ZK circuit directly in the Lean proof assistant. The compiler lowers it to a constraint system, with soundness and completeness guaranteed by construction.
Properties proved at the source level carry through to R1CS.
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This is a great illustration of why "generative AI finding security bugs everywhere" is a non‑equilibrium phenomenon. Today, there's lots of software out there that wasn't built under agentic scrutiny.
Going forward, pretty much all software, including smart contracts, will be subjected to increasingly sophisticated and thorough agent audits before deployment – which will hopefully squash these types of bugs ahead of time.
(h/t @eddylazzarin)
We've been exploring whether AI security agents can replace human experts.
Our takeaway so far: not yet.
For price manipulation, one of the most complex DeFi attacks, generating exploit PoCs is still a bottleneck.
Would love your thoughts.
Recent Balancer + yETH exploits share a common pattern: tiny numerical edge cases becoming real vulnerabilities.
We outline the mechanics and argue for a missing defense: runtime checks on precision + invariants.
This needs to be a first-class design requirement in DeFi.👇
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We’re excited to share our 2025 State of Crypto report.
This year’s story: the maturation of the crypto industry — with growing institutional adoption, the rise of stablecoins, better infrastructure, new consumer experiences, and long-awaited regulatory clarity.
Read the full report → a16zcrypto.com/posts/article…
Here are the biggest trends of 2025…
