Zcash Tumbles 50% After Claude Opus 4.8 Exposes 4-Year-Old Flaw

1 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 14

Zcash fell about 50% after the privacy token disclosed on June 4 a critical vulnerability that had gone undetected for more than four years.
Claude Opus 4.8 helped a security researcher working with Zcash uncover the flaw, exposing a weakness that years of expert human review had missed.
The selloff reflected traders' reassessment of the security of one of crypto's best-known privacy networks, whose token had traded at much higher levels only weeks earlier.
The episode highlights a broader AI-era risk for crypto projects: machine intelligence can now surface latent code vulnerabilities with major market consequences.