The crypto industry has been filled with many promoters touting dubious use cases of blockchain technology over the years. At various times in its history, crypto was supposed to revolutionize everyt… [+6186 chars]

Is crypto really the secret sauce that AI is missing?

Gizmodo.com

Crypto Promoters Say Blockchain Is the Future of AI. Researchers Aren’t Buying It

The bitcoin price dipped below the $60,000 mark on Friday, which brought it down to a level not seen since October 2024, before Donald Trumps U.S. presidential election win the following month. Trump… [+4399 chars]

As the whole market suffers, Zcash saw a 60% drop in the last two days.

Bitcoin Price Hits Lowest Level Since Before Trump’s 2024 Election Win

Zcash (ZEC) activated an emergency hard fork on Wednesday to address a critical bug in its Orchard shielded transaction pool. The vulnerability stemmed from a soundness issue in the zero-knowledge pr… [+5775 chars]

On Wednesday, the Zcash Foundation said there is “no evidence of unauthorized value creation.”

Zcash Bug Could Have Let Attackers Print Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air

If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important:
On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8… [+1075 chars]

If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important:
On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this k…

Schneier.com

Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed

One of Ethereums most notorious trading bots just got beaten at its own game. Jaredfromsubway.eth, a crypto trading bot long associated with front-running on-chain DeFi trades and a name that referen… [+5911 chars]

Amid the wider chaos of DeFi, someone made a killing from Jaredfromsubway's notorious "sandwich attacks."

Infamous Front-Running Crypto Bot ‘Jaredfromsubway’ Gets Tricked and Drained for $7.5M

A team of developers, including the co-creator of the Signal protocol and contributors from Microsoft and Harvard, are building out open-source software that can help bring the sort of hardened priva… [+4630 chars]

Encrypted Spaces provides "verifiable, encrypted, untrusted storage.”

Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App

Un chercheur en sécurité, Taylor Hornby, a lâché Claude Opus 4.8 sur le code de Zcash et 24 heures plus tard, le modèle lui a déniché une faille bien planquée là depuis 4 ans qui avait échappé aux au… [+3237 chars]

Un chercheur en sécurité, Taylor Hornby, a lâché Claude Opus 4.8 sur le code de Zcash et 24 heures plus tard, le modèle lui a déniché une faille bien planquée là depuis 4 ans qui avait échappé aux auditeurs !
Et ce qu'elle permet de faire pique un peu (ouille…

Korben.info

Zcash - Une IA déniche en 24h une faille vieille de 4 ans

What is quadratic funding, and how are matches calculated?
Quadratic funding distributes the match pool by how many people back a project, not just how much each gives. It uses the square root of ea… [+2733 chars]

How quadratic funding distributes the matching pool in this round.

Torproject.org

Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support

Le 5 juin 2026, le cours est tombé jusqu'à 59 100 $ avant de remonter légèrement. La cryptomonnaie a perdu plus de la moitié de sa valeur en huit mois. En octobre 2025, le Bitcoin a touché un record … [+2821 chars]

Le Bitcoin est repassé sous les 60 000 $, soit son plus bas depuis octobre 2024. La première cryptomonnaie a perdu près de 20 % en une semaine et plus de la moitié de sa valeur depuis son dernier record. Mais pourquoi une telle chute ? La vente surprise d'un …

Les Numériques

Actualité : Le Bitcoin est au plus bas, Claude Opus 4.8 a trouvé une faille dans Zcash qui a refroidi les investisseurs

Earlier, Shielded Labs, a nonprofit developer on the privacy token system, disclosed a critical vulnerability in Zcash's (ZEC) Orchard privacy pool that could have threatened the integrity of the tok… [+606 chars]

Zcash plummeted 40% after Shielded Labs revealed a major bug that went undetected for 4 years.

CoinDesk

Live updates: bitcoin below $62,000 as blowout jobs data, Zcash bug keeps pressure on crypto

Taylor Hornby, the security engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model to find a critical bug in Zcash, says privacy coin Monero is among the tokens he intends to audit next.
Asked on X whether… [+1202 chars]

Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.

Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue

Quantum-resistant cryptocurrencies were the standout performers of May, outpacing Bitcoin (BTC) by 59.3% for the month even as the broader market sold off, according to Binance Research.
The rally c… [+2517 chars]

Quantum-resistant tokens outpaced Bitcoin in May as Zcash rallied past Cardano and readied quantum-recoverable wallets.

BeInCrypto

Quantum Resistance Was Crypto’s Hottest Sector During the May Selloff

For a few hours Wednesday Asia time, Zcash's blockchain appeared not to be producing any new blocks but that's an issue with the block explorers themselves, not the chain, per some observers. 
Think… [+1316 chars]

One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.

Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure providers say

Zcash has clawed back much of last week's losses, rising about 45% from the low near $300 it hit Friday as developers proposed a fix for the flaw that triggered the sell-off.
ZEC traded around $437 … [+1827 chars]

The plan would let anyone verify that no counterfeit coins are circulating, addressing the patched bug that triggered last week's crash. ZEC is still down about 22% on the week.

Zcash bounces 45% as developers propose new Ironwood upgrade

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of Maelstromfund, said he liquidated his entire zcash (ZEC) position after a developer disclosed a potential critical vulnerability in the network's Orchard Poo… [+1219 chars]

Hayes said he would reconsider his stance if his assumptions that an exploit is still possible prove to be incorrect.

Arthur Hayes dumps zcash holdings after Orchard Pool vulnerability revealed

By Karen Roman
Fortitude Mining Holdings, Inc., a Zcash mining platform, has agreed to merge with HeartSciences Inc. (Nasdaq: HSCS) in an all-stock transaction that will take the company public.
Th… [+1263 chars]

By Karen Roman Fortitude Mining Holdings, Inc., a Zcash mining platform, has agreed to merge with HeartSciences Inc. (Nasdaq: HSCS) in an all-stock transacti...

Yahoo Entertainment

Zcash Miner Fortitude Merging with HeartSciences to Go Public

If you click 'Accept all', we and our partners, including 247 who are part of the IAB Transparency &amp; Consent Framework, will also store and / or access information on a device (in other words, us… [+1046 chars]

A major bug found in the top privacy network Zcash, using artificial intelligence, may be a warning sign that similar undiscovered flaws exist across crypto and banking software.
What's worrying the… [+5519 chars]

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding across crypto and traditional financial systems.

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.
On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orc… [+4440 chars]

Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claud…

Securityaffairs.com

Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.

The crypto market is teetering on the brink of a major breakdown in price after suffering one of its worst weeks since July 2024.
Bitcoin BTC
$61,875.23, currently trading around $62,500 has lost m… [+3249 chars]

Crypto is on course for its worst week since July 2024, with the ether price approaching a critical support as a zcash exploit and AI capital rotation pile on the pressure.

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