Zcash Ironwood Upgrade Locks In Consensus Rules, Eyes Late July Activation
TLDR: Zcash Ironwood upgrade introduces a new Orchard pool with a circuit flag that blocks payments to other users. The old Orchar...
Zcash’s Orchard Vulnerability Leaves Users Unable to Verify ZEC Circulating Supp...
TLDR: Zooko Wilcox confirms users cannot independently verify if ZEC supply was hit by the Orchard flaw. The Ironwood upgrade woul...
Arthur Hayes dumps zcash holdings after Orchard Pool vulnerability revealed
Hayes said he would reconsider his stance if his assumptions that an exploit is still possible prove to be incorrect.
Zcash Founder Warns Orchard Bug Could Have Created Undetectable Counterfeit ZEC
TLDR: Security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered the Orchard circuit flaw on May 29, 2026, using Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 model. The...
Zcash plummets 30% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that went undetected for...
Shielded Labs revealed that the bug could have helped an attacker print unlimited counterfeit tokens. That could have damaged trus...
Zcash plummets 38% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that went undetected for...
Shielded Labs revealed that the bug could have helped an attacker print unlimited counterfeit tokens. That could have damaged trus...
Privacy-focused Zcash blockchain has not produced a block for four hours
The Zcash blockchain didn't produce new blocks for more than four hours on June 3.
Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure provider says
One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.
Midnight Network Launches Programmable Disclosure Framework for Blockchain Priva...
TLDR: Midnight Network went live on March 30, 2026, with nine institutional-grade nodes producing blocks in a federated phase. Six...
DeFi's new front: VerifiedX bets bitcoin's next chapter is programmable, private
VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting g...