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ZEC Crashes 38% as Zcash Discloses ‘Critical Counterfeiting Vulnerability’
ZEC
ZEC/USDT
$1,543.93
+1.19%
$1,543.93
+1.19%
(24s)24h Volume
$2,914,399,947.13
24h H/L
$1,574.60 / $1,456.92
Change: $117.68 (8.08%)
Funding Rate
+0.0025%
Longs pay
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Decrypt Editorial(10:41 AM UTC)
1 min read
In brief
- Zcash dropped double digits overnight after the disclosure of a four-year-old vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool.
- The bug, discovered by an AI-assisted audit, could have been exploited to create unlimited counterfeit ZEC with no on-chain trace.
- Critics argue privacy coins enable a "unique class" of bugs where exploitation would go unnoticed.
Zcash plunged double digits overnight…
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