Nethermind|Feb 21, 2026 09:47
EVMBench puts data behind something the past week already demonstrated on mainnet.
Across 120 curated vulnerabilities, the best agents execute end-to-end exploits against ~72% of vulnerable contracts. But comprehensive detection (finding all high-severity issues across a full codebase) tops out around 46%. The bottleneck isn't security reasoning. It's search and coverage across large repositories.
Meanwhile, AI-authored code is reaching production with the same classes of flaws auditors have been catching for years. Oracle miscalculations, unit conversion errors, broken scaling logic: introduced by AI, shipped without adequate review.
Two different problems. Same underlying gap: security workflows haven't adapted to AI in development.
This is the problem we built our security practice around.(Nethermind)
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