AI-Assisted Audit Uncovers Critical Zcash Orchard Vulnerability That Could Have Minted Unlimited Counterfeit ZEC

Security researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 to find a critical bug in Zcash’s Orchard pool. This vulnerability could have led to the minting of undetectable counterfeit ZEC, causing the token's value to drop by 31%.