This one’s been stuck in my head. A researcher used one of the new AI models to audit Zcash’s Orchard pool and found a serious soundness bug that had been sitting in the code since 2022, after years of review by actual cryptography experts. They patched it with an emergency fork and say there’s no sign it was ever exploited, though because it’s a privacy pool they admit they can’t actually prove that either way.
The part that I think matters more than the ZEC price drop: the same proof system (Halo2) is used by other projects like Scroll and Taiko.
https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/06/05/zcash-patches-critical-counterfeit-exploit-as-zec-drops-37/
So is this good news (white hats now have a tool to find this stuff first) or scary news (so does everyone else)? And does “we got audited two years ago” mean much anymore?
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