Altcoins Started Jun 3, 2026 7:24 PM

The Zcash shielded supply relies on trust, not math

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Jun 3, 2026 7:24 PM Last edited Jun 3, 2026 7:29 PM
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https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/orchard-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/55976

Zcash's supply has now relied on trust in all private pools. This is Zcash's second hidden inflation vulnerability: the worst class of vulnerability possible. Monero has never had a hidden inflation vulnerability.

You now have to trust that no one printed more shielded Zcash in the Orchard pool while the vulnerability was live, the math in Zcash does not protect you. Orchard is now effectively a trusted pool, technically inferior to FCMP++.

The Zcash turnstile mechanism only mitigates damage. The turnstile would show that someone is unshielding a wholeeee lot of printed Zcash triggering the turnstile (the Orchard pool is almost 30% the total supply currently). There is no way of knowing if an attacker is currently sitting on infinite Zcash in the Orchard pool and already exploited the vulnerability.

It's reckless and irresponsible that the Zcash ecosystem downplays this vulnerability.

"ZCASH WAS NEVER DOWN. FUD"

This distracts from the MAJOR CRITICAL vulnerability that was just found (and YES, the Orchard pool was in fact down while they rolled out the patch).

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Jun 10, 2026 4:35 PM
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@Isogeny

I was distracted by the conference in the weekend. Is this thread related to ZCash's nosedive in the weekend, due to a bug found by AI?

well they audited the code themselves by using LLMs and found the bug that way
which seems like on monero, looking at the chatlogs, sech1 is the one that took that initiative to being pro-active regarding the monero codebase, with also sgp that was able to enter into the claude verification program thing and been accepted within 25mins lol
so at least monero is doing something there too
so far no critical findings so that's good news

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