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A critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard shielded pool could have enabled attackers to mint unlimited ZEC without detection. The flaw was discovered May 29 and patched by June 2 through an emergency response, raising questions about the security of privacy-focused cryptocurrency infrastructure.
Zcash successfully patched a critical vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have enabled double-spending, deploying an emergency network upgrade on June 2-3 after researcher Taylor Hornby discovered the soundness flaw. Despite temporary network confusion from explorer outages during the upgrade, ZEC maintained support around $600 and rallied approximately 20% over two days, outperforming the broader market.
Zcash's price declined to $572.12 following an emergency consensus security patch released by the Zcash Foundation, raising concerns about the network's infrastructure stability and casting doubt on its potential to reach top-ten cryptocurrency status.
