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Open intelligence needs an open AI economy.
The next chapter of Eigen is one people can build on and earn from.
- @DarkbloomAI puts idle Macs to work serving paid inference.
- @YukonResearch brings humans and agents together to advance frontier research.
Our ambition is useful products, with contributors who earn from them and fees that drive value back to $EIGEN.
Great to see @BlockworksAdv connect the dots in its latest report on inference.
If there's one thing in crypto you should be paying close attention to, it's this!
Making the cryptography securing BTC, ETH and ZEC quantum-safe.
And it needs to be solved in the open.
On @YukonResearch.
For those wondering why @eigencloud keeps working on this - its our attempt to help defend $ETH , $BTC and $ZEC
Quantum proofing cryptography can't be left to a few small teams in far flung research labs or to any individual L1 or Foundation. The stakes here extend well beyond crypto. And its the perfect challenge for open, collaborative autoresearch on @yukonresearch
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For those wondering why @eigencloud keeps working on this - its our attempt to help defend $ETH , $BTC and $ZEC
Quantum proofing cryptography can't be left to a few small teams in far flung research labs or to any individual L1 or Foundation. The stakes here extend well beyond crypto. And its the perfect challenge for open, collaborative autoresearch on @yukonresearch
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31.9% faster on DGX Spark and 13.8% faster on Mac.
Lightning is the base that people post-train for their own tasks, so every speedup here makes all of those fine-tuned models faster too.
Pick your machine:
→ Mac: mlx.fast
→ DGX Spark: cuda.fast
🚨 NEW ON MLX.FAST AND CUDA.FAST: make NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning faster.
Lightning is an open-weight model that fits in ~20GB, which makes it a great base model for running AI locally on a single machine. @nvidia built it as a fast general model meant to be post-trained -- so any speedup to the base carries over to every specialized model built on top of it.
On day 1, solvers on @YukonResearch already got it running 31.9% faster on DGX Spark and 13.8% faster on Mac.
You can work on its Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts and attention layers, plus a multi-token prediction head built for speculative decoding.
NVIDIA also released the training data and recipes, so people post-train Lightning for their own tasks. Most of those fine-tunes keep their architecture, which means a speedup here makes them faster too.
Two tracks:
• Apple Silicon → mlx.fast
• NVIDIA DGX Spark → cuda.fast
The challenge runs until Oct 29, 2026
To join, pick a track, point your agent at it and let it rip.
EigenCloud retweeted
🚨 NEW ON MLX.FAST AND CUDA.FAST: make NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning faster.
Lightning is an open-weight model that fits in ~20GB, which makes it a great base model for running AI locally on a single machine. @nvidia built it as a fast general model meant to be post-trained -- so any speedup to the base carries over to every specialized model built on top of it.
On day 1, solvers on @YukonResearch already got it running 31.9% faster on DGX Spark and 13.8% faster on Mac.
You can work on its Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts and attention layers, plus a multi-token prediction head built for speculative decoding.
NVIDIA also released the training data and recipes, so people post-train Lightning for their own tasks. Most of those fine-tunes keep their architecture, which means a speedup here makes them faster too.
Two tracks:
• Apple Silicon → mlx.fast
• NVIDIA DGX Spark → cuda.fast
The challenge runs until Oct 29, 2026
To join, pick a track, point your agent at it and let it rip.
EigenCloud retweeted
Frontier attacks on SHA256
Discovered AFTER a 12 year gap.
Let’s battle test cryptography
for the post AGI era.
yukon.org/hashsmash
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🏁 FINAL RESULTS: Bonsai 2 9B now runs 471% faster on Macs and 421.5% faster on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Open frontier research and open-weight models win again. One open challenge, one week with the community and it runs 6x faster on hardware people already own.
It is crazy to see that the decode speed went from 144.8 to 959.6 tokens/sec on Apple Silicon and from 85.9 to 576.7 on DGX Spark.
This model can also run on an iPhone. I'm very excited to see what people build with it and how it introduces MLX and local AI to new faces.
Bonsai 2 9B has been live on @DarkbloomAI since day one, so anyone can try it right now.
158 new records built on top of each other from humans and agents running Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek-V4 and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. Congrats to Kaankolcu took the top spot on Mac, and dadon took it on NVIDIA.
Thank you to the @PrismML team for doing this in the open with us, @BabakHassibi, @HessianFree, @SahinLale and the rest of the PrismML team.
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A new SHA-256 attack got 90 times cheaper within days of Dariia (@FutureDies) posting it on HashSmash.
Every submission on the board is open, so five other solvers started from her result instead of from scratch. It’s also the first HashSmash result built on a new technique rather than tuning an old one.
HashSma.sh boards for SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3 and Poseidon are open to anyone.
HashSmash Breakthrough
For the first time, a 39-round version of SHA-256 has been attacked faster than brute force.
Dariia Porechna (@FutureDies) found a new collision attack, a way to find two different inputs that produce the same hash. It works on SHA-256 cut down to 39 of its 64 rounds, and it’s about a billion times cheaper than the best previous attack. Within days, other HashSmash solvers including sraiw made it about 90 times cheaper again.
Full SHA-256, which secures Bitcoin, is still safe. Even the improved attack is out of reach for every computer on Earth combined.
Congrats to Dariia and the other HashSmash participants who pushed the result even further: @cyberaxe, @privacymage, @lamb356_, and @geeknik. The attack builds on the method from ePrint 2026/1120 (Li, Zhang, Li, Liu, Qian & Zhu).
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SHA-256 is not broken, but its security margin lost 1 more round this year:
Last week I found a collision attack on reduced 39-round that improves prior art by over 30 bits and the first differential attack on that round better than generic search on @yukonresearch Hashsmash board.
The attack rests on the same method as prior art ePrint 2026/1120 with new insights that first 2 state words could remain free, allowing a critical condition at step 16 rebuilt as a claw-search problem rather than a probabilistic filter. Took days of watching SAT logs, burning cores and arguing with Claude on what's possible to get a result close to generic search.
Since my initial submission, other hashsmash participants sraiw, @cyberaxe, @privacymage, @lamb356_ and @geeknik pushed it down by over 6.5 bits, currently estimated at 118.15 bits. The tree of submissions is hard to follow, so I put the construction, insights and numbers into a blog and am working on detailed technical report.
It's fascinating to see an initial structural observation develop into an improvement in the reduced-round collision frontier within days. AI is now a real aid in cryptanalysis and open collaboration speeds it up.
Aztec x Yukon: CurveSmash challenge is LIVE
Your wallet runs on math that quantum computers will eventually break.
CurveSma.sh puts AI to work attacking that math in public, so holders learn how much time is left before anyone else does.
Cryptographers check every result.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
Awesome initiative. Lets prove our curves secure and find even better new ones.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
Everything is breaking
But we're ahead of the curve (secp256k1 that is)
Proud to be launching this contest on @yukonresearch with @eigenlabs
Aztec is quantum resistant, but we also need to be AI proof.
And this contest opens this research to the world.
Can you smash it?
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
Frontier attacks on
elliptic curve cryptography.
Zac Williams co founder of Aztec is leading this new open frontier challenge.
Go break ecdsa.
So we can build better ecdsa.
hashsma.sh is ongoing
To break hashes
And found a frontier attack on
reduced 39 rounds SHA256
Yukon: Open Multiplayer Research
For PostAGI cryptography
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
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I’m very excited to be launching curvesma.sh in collaboration with @yukonresearch
There has been concern that AI cryptanalysis could compromise elliptic curves and the lack of information coming out of AI labs is fuelling paranoia.
So let’s do this out in the open. An open challenge to see if we can find new methods to solve traditional elliptic curve hardness problems.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
CRYPTO MAY NOT BE SAFE FROM AI HACKS
Help us prove that it is!
CurveSmash just went live on @yukonresearch for anyone that wants to contribute to defending the cryptography that powers your wallet.
Huge thanks to @aztecnetwork and @Zac_Aztec for the collab here 🫡
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
A new open AI cryptanalysis challenge curvesma.sh is live @yukonresearch to understand the hardness assumptions of elliptic curves.
A whole lot of internet runs on hardness assumptions of elliptic curves, it is important for all of us to know how robust those assumptions are.
This competition has been designed by @Zac_Aztec, co-founder of Aztec.
Please deploy your best agent skills and understanding of elliptic curve cryptography.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
CurveSmash curvesma.sh is LIVE!
There is no quiet way to find out how exposed the internet is to elliptic curve attacks. The responsible version is the public one.
CurveSmash on @YukonResearch with @aztecnetwork puts AI to work on elliptic curve cryptanalysis in the open, so the answer arrives before Q-day rather than on it.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
NEW CHALLENGE ALERT: CurveSmash curvesma.sh
How long until the math protecting your wallet breaks?
Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets and the padlock in your browser all rely on elliptic curves. Quantum computers will eventually break them. AI is already getting better at finding weak spots.
CurveSmash, with @aztecnetwork, opens that question to everyone. Point your agent at it and build on every attack that came before.
Cryptographers review each result before it counts.
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh
EigenCloud retweeted
CurveSmash is live on @YukonResearch, in partnership with @eigenlabs.
An open challenge to find new attacks on the elliptic curves securing Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed by @Zac_Aztec.
Open to anyone. curvesma.sh