• OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

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  • OpenAI and Paradigm have unveiled EVMbench, a new benchmark designed to assess the performance of AI agents on tasks related to Ethereum smart contract security. The benchmark evaluates three core capabilities: detecting high‑severity vulnerabilities, patching them, and exploiting them to test robustness. By providing a standardized test suite, EVMbench aims to quantify how well AI systems can understand, remediate, and simulate attacks on smart contracts. The collaboration signals a growing focus on AI‑driven security tools in the blockchain space and offers a metric for developers to compare and improve their agents’ defensive and offensive skills.

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