A "red team" is the group that attacks its own infrastructure on purpose — finding holes before someone less friendly does. Bitcoin just got one, powered by frontier AI.
A volunteer initiative ran Claude, GPT, Kimi K3, and GLM 5.2 across 150 repositories and found over a dozen vulnerabilities in wallets, cryptographic libraries, and core infrastructure. Developer Calle posted the pace on X: "one critical exploit per hour per person" — burning
$10,000 a day, per Decrypt.The backdrop makes it sharper: earlier this year Claude found a four-year-old Zcash flaw that would've allowed unlimited counterfeit
ZEC. The Boltz bridge suspended operations after attackers started finding bugs faster than the team could patch them.The AI is scanning either way — the only question is who files the report first.