mateo
a four year-old bug in zcash's orchard privacy pool could have allowed unlimited and undetectable fake $zec minting, not a good look here. it was found on may 29 by a security engineer called "taylor hornby" using anthropic's opus 4.8, released just the day before. plus he didn't just find it, he even wrote a working exploit that confirmed it was real. the fix shipped in days via an emergency hard fork. currently there's zero evidence of exploitation, but here's the problem with that: orchard's privacy design makes it cryptographically impossible to prove it was never used. that uncertainty alone sent $zec down ~30%. from my research i found that arthur hayes exited his entire position over it. also worth noting: human auditors missed this for 4 years but ai caught it in a single targeted review should we hire auditors anymore or just pay anthropic to access claude security?
Ethan
zcash:native was hacked by Opus 4.8 Here’s exactly what happened: - A serious bug in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool could have allowed someone to secretly create unlimited fake ZEC. - The issue was found on May 29 during an AI-assisted (Claude Opus) security review and was fixed
