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 anyone direct AI agents at SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon to test how far they can advance attacks on the hash functions underpinning internet cryptography. Results will be published and reviewed by cryptographers; the article reports no successful attacks or specific market effects.