Winklevoss twins back Zcash following bug scare that tanked ZEC by up to 57%

AI-assisted audits may become crucial for privacy coins, as vulnerability discoveries can significantly impact token value and investor trust. The post Security engineer Taylor Hornby adds Monero to audit queue after Zcash bug discovery appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Arthur Hayes has disclosed the unwinding of his Worldcoin position just days after revealing a major rebalancing of Maelstrom’s portfolio. On Friday, June 5th, the BitMEX co-founder proclaimed that “the Holy Trinity is dead,” dumping his Zcash, Hyperliquid, and NEAR holdings while touting WLD’s prospects of outperforming. Hayes revealed the recently found Orchard Pool vulnerability […]

The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first.

The security researcher, who discovered the Orchard Pool vulnerability in Zcash, says he has added other privacy-focused coins, including Monero, to his audit queue. Researcher To Audit Monero After Finding Zcash Flaw Security engineer Taylor Hornby, who used the Claude AI Opus 4.8 model, has revealed that he intends to audit Monero, among other crypto […]

Zcash faces pressure after an Orchard bug raised supply doubts, while David Schwartz says unmoved coins can remain safe in isolated pools.

This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the week with a comment on each story. Bitcoin capitulated below its 200-week moving average with […]

The cryptocurrency market was shaken by a dramatic collapse in Zcash price, with the privacy-focused digital asset losing more than half of its value in just 24 hours. This sudden decline erased billions of dollars from its market capitalization, making it one of the most significant single-day drawdowns seen in the sector this year. What […]

Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in crypto too.