Zcash drops 50% in one day, with market maker Auros Global experiencing a single trade unrealized loss of $8.5 million.

This is not just a simple vulnerability panic, but a structural crack in the narrative of privacy coins.
The vulnerability itself is not complex: the Orchard pool has existed for four years, and attackers can infinitely forge tokens.
The fix was completed on June 2, but the market voted with their feet—Arthur Hayes liquidated, Tyler Winklevoss held firm, and market makers were forced to take on long positions.
What’s truly worth pondering is: when AI can automatically discover such vulnerabilities (this one was found by Anthropic Opus 4.8), does the "cryptographic security" narrative of privacy coins still hold up?
On-chain attack frequency has risen to 2.8 times before AI became widespread, and security is no longer a static proof but a continuous cycle of offense and defense.
For ZEC, once trust is broken, fixing the code is easy, but fixing consensus is difficult.
For the market, this plunge exposed the fragility of market makers during extreme events—Auros’ unrealized loss reminds us that liquidity providers are not risk-free.
The valuation logic of privacy coins is being rewritten: it’s not a technical issue, but a trust issue.
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