#ZECOrchardInfiniteMint

About ZECOrchardInfiniteMint

An infinite mint bug in Zcash's Orchard pool: incomplete elliptic curve constraints let attackers mint ZEC undetected, dormant since May 2022. Researcher Taylor Hornby used Claude Opus 4.8 to build a full exploit, showing AI lowers the bar for vuln discovery. Zcash's privacy makes proving the bug was never exploited impossible. ZEC crashed over 40% intraday. Whale Garrett Jin built a 57,460 ZEC short ~2 weeks before disclosure, now up $16.48M on Hyperliquid, raising insider trading suspicion.

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寒影
寒影
Zcash (ZEC) plunged nearly 50% in 24 hours, trading around $272.79. According to CoinGlass, total ZEC liquidations reached $81.91M, with long positions accounting for the majority ($70.55M), highlighting aggressive forced unwinds. The sharp decline is attributed to concerns around the Orchard pool vulnerability, alongside reports that BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes fully exited his ZEC position, intensifying selling pressure and triggering cascading liquidations.
Katherine_90
Katherine_90
What even happened while I was asleep?! 😵‍💫 Charts look wrecked. Anyone confirm if Grayscale actually scooped $HYPE yet or was that just hopium? And yeah... ZEC FUD turned real fast. That Orchard exploit wasn’t just Twitter noise. You caught any of the overnight move, or woke up to red candles too? #BTCETFOutflowRecord #ZECOrchardInfiniteMint #AnthropicSafetyParadox
Nathan_John
Nathan_John
The Holy Trinity is dead. Sadly due to the Orchard Pool exploit, I had to dump our entire $ZEC bag. - While I think it's extremely unlikely of any minting, it cannot be formally cryptographically proved impossible - The privacy from AI, govt, big tech narrative demands perfection not improbability - I read about the exploit yday, and didn't appreciate how it violated my narrative mental map. The 30% dump, made me rethink, and I had to take profit on the entire position - We will consistently re-evaluate our thinking and if my assumptions are proven incorrect, will rebuy, hopefully at lower prices. - Privacy is priceless and I have no issue eating humble pie and rebuying much higher. We still hold $WLD and are excited for Lord Elon to pump our bags#BTCETFOutflowRecord #ZECOrchardInfiniteMint #AnthropicSafetyParadox
clara_jackson
clara_jackson
I understand the privacy narrative, but anyone could freely mint zcash:native with that bug. So I think Zcash is done. Privacy layers need to be implemented in protocols like Ethereum and big wallets. Not launching useless privacy tokens. What I’m struggling with is the demand side. If privacy is such a compelling value proposition, why doesn’t that show up in actual usage? Outside of a few niche use cases, $ZEC processes fewer than 10,000 transactions per day. Monero does roughly 3x that. Even chains like Berachain and Monad have significantly higher transaction counts, and many people already consider those ecosystems effectively dead. A 21 million supply cap isn’t unique. Anyone can launch a coin with a capped supply. So if the core thesis is that people strongly demand privacy, why isn’t that demand reflected in the numbers?#BTCETFOutflowRecord #ZECOrchardInfiniteMint #AnthropicSafetyParadox
Olivia_ivy
Olivia_ivy
I understand the privacy narrative, but anyone could freely mint zcash:native with that bug. So I think Zcash is done. Privacy layers need to be implemented in protocols like Ethereum and big wallets. Not launching useless privacy tokens. What I’m struggling with is the demand side. If privacy is such a compelling value proposition, why doesn’t that show up in actual usage? Outside of a few niche use cases, $ZEC processes fewer than 10,000 transactions per day. Monero does roughly 3x that. Even chains like Berachain and Monad have significantly higher transaction counts, and many people already consider those ecosystems effectively dead. A 21 million supply cap isn’t unique. Anyone can launch a coin with a capped supply. So if the core thesis is that people strongly demand privacy, why isn’t that demand reflected in the numbers?#BTCETFOutflowRecord #ZECOrchardInfiniteMint #AnthropicSafetyParadox
tervelix
tervelix
zcash:native dropped 60% in a day after an AI-assisted audit discovered a major code vulnerability. The exploit could have allowed infinite, untraceable minting of shielded ZEC. While it's unclear if anyone exploited it, the team is proposing a network upgrade to secure the chain.
Samuel Cardillo
Samuel Cardillo
llm-assisted security is slowly becoming the new normal, already wrecking things. few days ago someone used Claude Opus 4.8 to find a soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard protocol. the bug let anyone mint infinite, undetectable ZEC and it had been hiding since 2022. for context, Zcash is a privacy cryptocurrency where your transaction amounts and addresses stay hidden while the network verifies everything cryptographically. ZEC dropped roughly 40% since then even tho it seems the exploit got patched. this is how cybersecurity looks now.
Elena🌸
Elena🌸
Claude Opus 4.8 really oneshotted the ZEC exploit The thesis that no protocol is safe from AI as it keeps advancing is becoming more prominent by the day Is this the first of many???
Ea Leapheng
Ea Leapheng
🎖️$ZEC getting cooked by FUD right now 🔥 A critical bug was found in the Orchard pool that could have allowed double spends. Team pushed emergency fixes fast and the issue is now patched. The scary part? The bug reportedly existed for ~4 years. Nobody knows if it was ever abused. Nobody can prove it wasn’t either. Devs say there’s no evidence of an exploit and the supply numbers look fine. But crypto loves uncertainty, and CT is already running wild with the story. Personally, this feels more like a trust issue than a technical issue at this point. Worth keeping an eye on. If the market starts believing there are “ghost coins” floating around, things could get interesting.#BTCETFOutflowRecord
ALLEF
ALLEF
$ZEC short played out textbook. Called the move, price dropped straight from 411 down to 370. Two take-profits hit clean, no stress, no drama. That’s how a plan is supposed to work. Shout to everyone who trusted the setup and locked in profits on this call. Conviction pays when you stick to levels and manage risk. Setups like this don’t come every day, but when structure lines up, the market usually rewards patience. Appreciate all my loyal followers riding this with me. More levels, more discipline, more results. What coin do you want me to break down next? #MayNFPCryptoWatch #AnthropicSafetyParadox #DailyOrbit @OKX Orbit
Elsa_Insights
Elsa_Insights
🚨 $ZEC crashed 30% in a single day after a critical bug was revealed in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool. The vulnerability had been sitting in the code since May 2022 and went undetected for nearly three years. It was discovered during a security audit on May 29 and patched through an emergency network upgrade between June 1–3. To confirm the bug was real, a researcher used Claude Opus 4.8 to create a working proof-of-concept exploit in a test environment, showing how fake ZEC could potentially be created. The bug is fixed. The bigger issue is trust. Because Orchard transactions are private, there is no easy way to verify whether the vulnerability was exploited before the patch. The Zcash team says there is no evidence that the supply was affected, but privacy makes independent verification difficult. This is the challenge with privacy coins: the same technology that protects user privacy can also make it harder to audit the network when something goes wrong. The market isn't just reacting to the bug-it's reacting to the uncertainty it exposed.