Zcash crisis deepens as David Schwartz explains “lonely” coins

The security researcher, who discovered the Orchard Pool vulnerability in Zcash, says he has added other privacy-focused coins, including Monero, to his audit queue. Researcher To Audit Monero After Finding Zcash Flaw Security engineer Taylor Hornby, who used the Claude AI Opus 4.8 model, has revealed that he intends to audit Monero, among other crypto […]

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XRP Ledger utility is expanding beyond payments as David Schwartz points to tokenized stocks, funds, loans, and rising XRPL adoption.

The cryptocurrency market was shaken by a dramatic collapse in Zcash price, with the privacy-focused digital asset losing more than half of its value in just 24 hours. This sudden decline erased billions of dollars from its market capitalization, making it one of the most significant single-day drawdowns seen in the sector this year. What […]

Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in crypto too.

Onchain investigator ZachXBT accused BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes of turning his own audience into “exit liquidity,” saying Hayes most recently promoted Worldcoin token (WLD) and then sold it shortly afterward, capping a roughly 15-day stretch in which he exited four publicly hyped positions. A Familiar Sequence of Hype and Exit ZachXBT leveled the charge in […]

Forward Industries moved $32 million in SOL to Coinbase Prime, reviving fears that the largest corporate Solana holder could add fresh sell pressure while sitting deep underwater. Zcash then faced a double blow as developers patched a critical counterfeit-minting bug and Arthur Hayes exited his position, deepening the selloff. Meanwhile, major U.S. banks explored tokenized […]

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