JUSTIN DRAKE CALLS FOR CRYPTO "BUNKER MODE" AS AI THREATENS ECDSA

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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake issued a call for "bunker mode," urging crypto holders to migrate assets to fresh addresses whose public keys remain hidden behind a hash before a potential ECDSA break. AI-driven mathematical progress, including OpenAI's recent mathematical superintelligence release and a series of proofs disproving long-held conjectures, may enable fast private key recovery on GPU clusters within months. Elliptic curves carry rich algebraic structure exploitable through AI-discovered techniques, and the absence of cryptographic breakthroughs among OpenAI's 722 published mathematical results raises the possibility of government-suppressed cryptanalysis. The Ethereum roadmap already targets hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification, and Drake is pushing to accelerate those timelines, while advising oracles and L2 security councils to rotate ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message.