Here’s the breakdown of $ZEC’s recent exploit by Opus 4.8 > A security researcher used Claude Opus 4.8, released just the day before to find a critical infinite mint bug in $ZEC’s Orchard pool. > The bug lets someone fool the transaction verification math and spend the same funds multiple times, minting unlimited fake ZEC. > Opus 4.7 missed it. Opus 4.8 caught it, but only when the prompt was precise and targeted. > The researcher built a working exploit, confirmed it locally, then responsibly disclosed it. Emergency hard fork deployed within days. > No one can cryptographically prove if it was ever exploited, the total ZEC supply cap was never actually at risk, the turnstile mechanism held. > A follow up upgrade is planned so anyone can independently verify ZEC moving out of Orchard going forward. So this doesn’t happen again. > In the aftermath this, $ZEC dropped 30%+ on disclosure, wiping over $3B in market cap. It’s current price is $352 dropped from $640 on news of the exploit.
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