Preparing the World's Cryptography for the AI Era, Eigen Labs and Zcash organization Shielded Labs, launch HashSmash, an open multiplayer competition to test how far AI can advance attacks on widely used hash functions

An open competition hosted on Yukon will let participants direct AI agents at SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon to test their ability to advance attacks on these cryptographic hash functions. Results will be published and reviewed by cryptographers; the article gives no performance results or financial implications.