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ZEC Crashes 38% as Zcash Discloses ‘Critical Counterfeiting Vulnerability’

ZEC

ZEC/USDT

$1,543.93
+1.19%
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

Data provided by COINOTAG DATALive data
ZEC
ZEC
Daily

$1,543.64

▼ -0.18%

Volume (24h): -

Resistance Levels
Resistance 3$2,014.54
Resistance 2$1,664.76
Resistance 1$1,563.00
Price$1,543.64
Support 1$1,477.49
Support 2$1,390.88
Support 3$1,233.99
Pivot (PP):$1,526.05
Trend:Uptrend
RSI (14):65.1
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Decrypt Editorial
(10:41 AM UTC)
1 min read
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Reviewed byMichael Roberts

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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