AI shifts bug-finding economics against Bitcoin layer-2 infrastructure

A string of recent incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and the Liquid Network highlights how AI is changing the economics of finding bugs in bitcoin infrastructure, per CoinDesk. The report frames layer-2 scalers as the main target of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as the cost of auditing complex bitcoin tooling shifts.

• The piece ties together the Coldcard vault drain, the Lightning emergency warning over AI-generated bug reports, and the Liquid Network exploit.
• It argues AI is making hidden vulnerabilities in bitcoin's scaling layers cheaper and faster to find.