ZEC Crashes 38% as Zcash Discloses ‘Critical Counterfeiting Vulnerability’

Many cryptocurrencies charted multi-month or even yearly lows in the past week. ADA is among the poorest performers.

Zcash developers are weighing a new shielded pool and turnstile accounting after the Orchard bug raised supply verification questions.

Hayes exited ZEC after an Orchard privacy bug raised supply doubts. He also liquidated HYPE and NEAR while rotating his portfolio. The Zcash flaw was patched, but future exploitation cannot be ruled out. Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, has fully exited his positions in Zcash (ZEC), Hyperliquid (HYPE), and NEAR Protocol (NEAR). The decision comes […] The post BitMEX co-founder, Arthur Hayes, liquidates all his ZEC, HYPE, and NEAR tokens appeared first on CoinJournal.

The ZCash team hired a hacker to find an exploit in the ZCash protocol, and he exposed a glitch that has been out there for four years.

Here is the puzzle. On May 29, 2026, a security researcher hired by Zcash developers found a critical bug in the network’s Orchard privacy pool, a flaw that could have let an attacker mint unlimited, undetectable counterfeit ZEC. The development…

Arthur Hayes says Maelstrom has sold its entire Zcash position after new disclosures around the Orchard Pool vulnerability sharpened the perceived risk around ZEC’s monetary integrity. The move effectively ends his recent “Holy Trinity” trade across ZEC, NEAR and HYPE, while leaving Worldcoin as the AI-linked bet he says the fund still holds. “The Holy Trinity is dead,” Hayes wrote on X. “Sadly due to the Orchard Pool exploit, I had to dump our entire ZEC bag.” Why Is Hayes Dumping Zcash Now? The post followed a detailed statement from Zooko Wilcox, Jason McGee and Taylor Hornby, who described the issue as “The Orchard Counterfeiting Vulnerability.” According to their summary, Hornby discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard pool on May 29 and disclosed it to Zcash Open Development Lab, which then coordinated an emergency response completed on June 2. The key line was stark: the vulnerability “could have been exploited to undetectably create an unlimited amount of counterf

The Zcash vulnerability highlights the critical need for robust security measures in cryptocurrency systems to maintain investor confidence. The post Zcash tumbles 50% as Hayes exits bag over unverifiable counterfeiting risk appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Key takeaways ZEC is down 45% and is now trading around $309 per coin. The vulnerability was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely. Zcash Zcash fell sharply on Friday after researchers disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Orchard shielded transaction pool that could have theoretically enabled the […] The post Zcash dips 45% after critical orchard pool vulnerability raises counterfeit token risk appeared first on CoinJournal.