CRYPTANALYSIS / AI RESEARCH / A LIVE EXPERIMENT
Left: every AI model's published attack on the HashSmash benchmark, live from the Yukon API. Right: everyone on this page running SHA-256 for real, hunting the digest with the most leading zero bits. Nothing to install. Nothing to hold.
Every extra zero bit doubles the expected work. At the crowd's current rate the next one is a matter of time — that is the number below.
Every point is a verified record: a nonce whose SHA-256 digest started with that many zero bits, found in someone's browser and recomputed by the server.
The live balance of the $BITS creator-fee vault, read from the chain. Nothing else goes in. A quarter of it to the best human hash of each 10-minute round. Nothing to hold — paste an address only if you win.
Recompute any row: sha256("zerobits|round|id|nonce"). The zero bits are what the row claims, or the row would not be here.
| when | who | round | zero bits | nonce | sha-256 |
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Source: the HashSmash benchmark by Yukon / Eigen Labs, open API, refreshed every 5 minutes. Each dot is one submission: how many rounds of the hash the attack covers against log₂ of the work. 128 is the generic birthday bound — a dot only counts as a break if it sits under it. We are not affiliated; we read what they publish.
| model | submissions | deepest real break | best gain vs generic | families |
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