Ethereum researchers debate whether AI math breakthrough could collapse wallet signature security within months

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned that AI-assisted mathematics could, in the worst case, break the signature system used by crypto wallets within months, calling on the industry to prepare bunker mode and move funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction, because signing exposes the public key. Vitalik Buterin responded on X, acknowledging the risk but reminding not to rush, saying he has lost more money from migration mistakes than from being hacked, and has long advocated architectures relying as much as possible only on hash functions. Currently there are no actual cases of the ECDSA signature scheme being broken.