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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto industry to prepare for a scenario in which AI-powered mathematical advances could put wallet signature schemes at risk within months, The Decoder reports. That is a warning about a possible future threat, not evidence that anyone has broken ECDSA in practice.

Vitalik Buterin broadly agrees with preparing, but cautions against rushing migrations. The Decoder says Buterin has personally lost more money to botched transitions than to hacks, a reminder that changing the locks can bring its own risks. The useful question is how the industry prepares without turning a theoretical danger into a self-inflicted outage.

Discuss: Should crypto networks begin migrating wallet signatures before there is evidence of a practical break, or wait until the threat is clearer?

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