Zcash Plummets 30 Percent After Four-Year-Old Critical Bug Surfaces
Zcash experienced a severe market selloff, dropping approximately 30 percent to $400, after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in its Orchard shielded transaction pool that could have allowed attackers to generate unlimited counterfeit tokens without detection. The bug, present since May 2022, remained hidden for four years until security engineer Taylor Hornby identified it during a protocol audit conducted for Shielded Labs. The Vulnerability and Its Implications The flaw stemmed from …









