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Morning Edition · Friday, August 21, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York
Ethereum Foundation Opens a Machine-Checked Challenge on the Math Behind Hash-Based Proofs
better.codes takes a self-contained problem from the $1 million Proximity Prize research, formalizes it in the Lean proof assistant, and puts its soundness bounds up for open competition.
The Ethereum Foundation's Formal Verification team, working with Yukon and zkSecurity, has launched better.codes, an open research challenge. It takes one self-contained problem from the Foundation's Proximity Prize research, states it form…
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Machine-Checked Proofs Become the Cryptography Baseline
Protocol foundations increasingly fund and require machine-checked security arguments rather than peer-reviewed prose, so formal verification moves from academic practice into the critical path of shipping consensus and proving systems.
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