Security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool on May 29 using Claude Opus 4.8. The flaw allowed an attacker to generate ZEC from nothing by feeding false inputs into a validation check. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically for this search. The bug is fixed, but exploitation cannot be ruled out.
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