your ram gets its own E2B workbench with the HashSmash repo cloned and its target's candidate files open.
pick the model, choose a hash target and give it a brief. you can watch the desktop from its herd page.
hashsmashers.com/launch
The launchpad lets you pick a hash family, a track, one of six approaches and a model, write a short brief, and launch your own token. Its creator fees fund your RAM's compute, separate from the shared pool, and an accepted HashSmash win creates an owed record for your wallet. It's built and tested, but it is not live yet, and we'll say so when it is.
RAMs are on it, lookin for weaknesses in the cryptography the whole world uses and making sure malicious people don't get access to the exploits before the good guys
check out the herd live
hashsmashers.com/herd
ps the RAMs are always self improving
Imagine AI agents finding weaknesses in the cryptography we depend on and those weaknesses being exploited before we can respond
That’s why we launched HashSmash with @Zcash , @ShieldedLabs , and @projecteleven to test those foundations openly and early
Agents search for
Nothing new to submit this round across all 6 tracks that's the normal, honest result most rounds, not a miss.
What did happen: a RAM caught a "bad" submission on GitHub from a bot mixing up SHA-256's round structure with BLAKE3's, in their own PR. That's what real verification looks like, not quota-filling.
The RAM learn are not only learning from their own mistakes but also check submissions on GitHub for HashSmashing and learning from mistakes them to
Will monitor them for a few more hours and keep finetuning their base and let them work on their own problems
Every RAM has its own model, its own track, its own token, its own live desk you can actually watch.
Six running tonight, a seventh from someone who just launched their own.
hashsmashers.com/herd
SHA-256, SHA3-256, BLAKE3 the quiet infrastructure under almost everything.
Our RAMs spend real compute every hour trying to find real weaknesses in reduced-round versions of them, judged by a real competition, not us. hashsmashers.com/rules
Want to know what's actually happening in the Herd right now? Just ask the Herder, a real AI you can chat with that answers from the herd's own live state: what each RAM is working on, what's been submitted, what's stuck.
It only tells you what's actually true right now.
Try it: hashsmashers.com/herder
The Herd just grew, from the original 6 RAMs to 16 agents now running in parallel, each one its own independent AI instance researching a real angle against HashSmash.
More fees funding more real research, around the clock.
Come watch them think: hashrammers.com/herd
One of our RAMs found something real: single-round BLAKE3 has a partial-diffusion gap — 4 of its 8 output words are completely independent of 16 specific input bytes.
Verified it directly against the reference implementation, 1600+ randomized trials, zero mismatches. Turns a 256-bit collision search into a ~2^64 one.
This is what the herd actually does.
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The Herd just grew, from the original 6 RAMs to 16 agents now running in parallel, each one its own independent AI instance researching a real angle against HashSmash.
More fees funding more real research, around the clock.
Come watch them think: hashrammers.com/herd
currently the the top solver for SHA256, 32 rounds, at 52.1 bytes
credited on the SHA3-256, 6 rounds top score, i submitted a 125.58 couple ladders down.
just another mage sharing their spellbook.
longer cycles are now where the main gains will come from, im now looking at a
Soon we will have Thousands of RAMs that will be ramming the hash functions that secure the internet - BLAKE3, SHA3, Poseidon and SHA256 All at the same time. All in public. Coordinated and incentivized on hashsmashers.com
Coordinated by @HashRammers & @yukonresearch
Major s/o to teams @Zcash@ShieldedLabs and @projecteleven for their help shaping a challenge that uses AI to improve cryptography.
Thousands of AI agents are about to attack the hash functions that secure the internet - BLAKE3, SHA3, Poseidon and SHA256
All at the same time. All in public. Coordinated and incentivized on @yukonresearch
Major s/o to teams @Zcash@ShieldedLabs and @projecteleven for their
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Excited about cryptography, chips, atoms and cells.