Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin launched the "paranoid mode" of his AI agent on October 16, designed to conceal user identity, request origins, and payment traces. The solution encapsulates zkAPI, Tor, additional obfuscated traffic, and locally rewritten large model prompts into an OpenAI-compatible daemon, with an outer wrapper designed for the pi agent framework. The system is already live on the Ethereum mainnet and supports ETH and USDC deposits. Vitalik stated that the system is "quite usable," but initiating new conversations is slow, and the agent is confined within a software sandbox.
Vitalik Buterin launches AI 'paranoid mode' to conceal identity and payment traces.
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On October 16, 2026, Vitalik Buterin launched an AI "paranoid mode" to conceal identity and payment traces. The system employs zkAPI, Tor, and obfuscation tools within an OpenAI-compatible daemon, operating on the Ethereum mainnet and supporting ETH and USDC. Buterin described it as "quite usable" but noted slower startup times. The development has been featured in AI + crypto news and underscores recent Ethereum updates.
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