Zcash's Orchard Pool Had Four-Year-Old Vulnerability Fixed After AI Discovery
Security researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 to uncover a critical flaw in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool that allowed creation of counterfeit ZEC. The bug, present since May 2022, was patched with an emergency fix on June 1 2026, though it’s impossible to confirm if it was ever exploited.