Academic Validation Dominates

The AI race functions mainly as a public cryptographic stress test rather than a market-moving breach. Researchers, Zcash developers, and security labs produce useful benchmarks, but no practical attack against SHA-256, BLAKE3, Poseidon, or other widely used hashes emerges.

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