Ethereum client developer Nethermind and Bitcoin and Lightning wallet maker ZEUS are among crypto projects seeking access to Anthropic’s new OSS Scanner, an opt-in program designed to use the company’s most powerful artificial-intelligence models to identify vulnerabilities in open-source software.
According to Cointelegraph, the projects submitted enrollment requests on Friday, one day after Anthropic launched the service. The company said the scanner will generate reports using its strongest models, including Claude Mythos, and provide participating developers with findings as soon as their code has been examined.
How Anthropic’s scanner works
OSS Scanner builds on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing initiative. Anthropic said it already scans open-source software for security weaknesses and sends reports after human review. However, that review can delay the process, meaning vulnerabilities may not be communicated as quickly as the company would prefer.
The new service is opt-in, and enrollment is not automatic. Anthropic said applications will be reviewed individually, with decisions based on factors including a project’s importance to infrastructure and user security, its exposure to remote attacks, and the number of users or other projects that rely on it.
The applications visible in pull requests to the OSS Scanner GitHub repository had not been merged at the time of publication. That means the requests did not yet represent confirmed participation in the program.
Crypto projects among applicants
Nethermind has requested an audit of its entire repository. The company develops an Ethereum client, software used to interact with and support the Ethereum network.
ZEUS, a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet, asked for its application to be examined for weaknesses involving payments, private keys and connections to Lightning Services. In a self-custodial wallet, users retain control of their own keys, making the security of the software handling those keys particularly important to the application’s request.
Another applicant is VirtEngine, a decentralized cloud-computing marketplace built as a Cosmos SDK chain. Other applicants include developers of artificial-intelligence assistants, agent-security products, machine-learning infrastructure, software-development tools, cloud storage and energy-system controls.
The interest from crypto companies comes as firms seek access to advanced AI systems for defense against increasingly capable attackers. Anthropic warned that AI could give attackers an advantage in the near term by making exploitation less expensive, while checking and repairing vulnerabilities remains slower and reliant on human work.
Crypto companies have already described attacks involving AI assistance this year. Bitcoin swap provider Boltz suspended operations in August, saying attackers were developing exploits faster than its team could patch them. Crypto-payment service PayPerQ also reported repeated attacks it suspected were AI-powered.
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