The Zcash Orchard Vulnerability
On May 29, 2026—one day after Anthropic released its powerful Opus 4.8 model—a security researcher named Taylor Hornby made a discovery that sent shockwaves through the Zcash ecosystem. Hired by Shielded Labs specifically to hunt for protocol weaknesses before malicious actors could, Hornby used the new AI model in a targeted review of the Orchard circuit. What he found was not a minor implementation error. It was a fundamental soundness...
