By Isaac • October 9, 2026 12:36 am •
Crypto security warnings tend to produce two bad reactions: dismissal or panic. Ethereum’s latest “bunker mode” debate calls for neither.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake is urging the blockchain industry to plan for a future in which artificial intelligence speeds up attacks on the math behind today’s wallet signatures.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for “bunker mode”. My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
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— Justin Drake (@drakefjustin) October 7, 2026
Decrypt explains that Drake is worried about conventional mathematical breakthroughs arriving faster with AI assistance,
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