OpenAI Launches EVMbench: New Standard for Measuring AI Agents in Smart Contract Security

Introducing EVMbench

On February 19, 2026, OpenAI announced EVMbench, a new benchmark designed to measure AI agents' capabilities across three key security tasks on smart contracts.

What EVMbench Measures

EVMbench evaluates AI agents on EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) smart contracts across:

Detection: Identifying critical vulnerabilities in deployed contracts

Exploitation: Demonstrating how vulnerabilities can be triggered

Patching: Generating effective, secure fixes

Why This Matters

Smart contract vulnerabilities have been responsible for billions of dollars in losses across the blockchain ecosystem. Traditional security audits are time-consuming and expensive. EVMbench provides a standardized evaluation framework to assess whether AI agents can meaningfully assist or augment human security researchers in this space—potentially accelerating the discovery and remediation of critical flaws before they are exploited.

More details are available on the OpenAI blog.