LIVE NOW - AI Can Now Find 70% of Crypto Exploits | EVMBench w/ Alpin Yukseloglu @paradigm's @0xalpo joins Bankless to break down: - EVMBench: a benchmark + “agent harness” for detect → patch → exploit - Why crypto’s verifiability makes models improve fast - Blackhat vs whitehat: a 24/7 contract-scanning world - What happens when “superhuman AI auditors” arrive Enjoy. --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 AI’s exploit leap: 12% → 70% and the “Superhuman auditors” 7:02: Staring at the singularity without losing your mind 10:31 Agency > doom: the Thiel framing 19:10 What’s most at risk (and what’s safer) 23:37 What EVMBench actually is (benchmark + harness) 27:03 Why exploiting is the key: killing false positives 29:24 AI gets “good at crypto” fast: verifiability 30:56 What “70% exploit rate” really means 33:32 Why AI labs avoided crypto (it’s not technical) 43:38 Blackhat vs whitehat: how the race plays out 47:21 Agents and “payments at the speed of light” 51:02 EVM vs Solana: network effects 56:18 AI formal verification as an endgame 58:06 EVMBench V2: expanding the frontier 59:54 Why Alpin stays in crypto

Payments are the “transmission lines” of the economy and stablecoins are quietly becoming the internet’s default mode for payments. But most blockchains still treat stablecoins like just another token and payments like just another app. In Episode 5 of TheCoordinate, I sat with @malleshpai from @tempo to discuss why Tempo is building a payments-first blockchain with native stablecoin experience: > why and how payments right now are broken, > TIP-20 (opinionated ERC-20) w/ policies + RBAC + transfer memos, > gas paid in stablecoins and protocol-native stablecoin DEX, > payment lanes so payroll & bills don’t break under congestion, > sub-second finality and sub-blocks, > modern wallet signing methods (incl. OAuth/Passkeys), > agentic commerce and payments. If you’re a business exploring how stablecoins can enable seamless payments, this episode is for you. This is Episode 4 of TheCoordinate. Hope you enjoy it! -------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 0:13 Intro: Stablecoins, settlement, and why Tempo is “payments-first” 1:29 Mallesh’s path into crypto: game theory → DeFi → building socioeconomic systems 3:12 The 2025 inflection point: institutions + regulation shift the opportunity set 5:42 Payments aren’t simple: why “it looks easy” hides massive enterprise complexity 9:14 Cross-border pain: correspondent banking, routing failures, trapped liquidity 14:42 TIP-20 explained: what it adds beyond ERC-20 and why stablecoins demand opinions 19:01 Transfer-with-memo: the “small feature” partners cared about most (devx unlock) 26:01 TempoTransactions: native AA features + why baking them into tx format matters 31:09 Fees in stablecoins 37:51 Payment lanes: guaranteeing payments during congestion + the simple “what counts as payment” test 41:39 Sub-blocks intro: “training wheels” toward multiple concurrent proposers / inclusion guarantees 48:37 Wallets: MetaMask/Phantom + embedded wallets (Privy/Turnkey) + passkey-heavy demos 56:10 Agentic commerce: agents paying for APIs/services; scoped keys + micropayments