The biggest downside of the Zec incident is the impact of AI's capabilities on the security of cryptocurrencies The vulnerability of ZEC was discovered using AI. Without AI, it may take even longer to be discovered, or it may never be discovered Researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a soundness bug in Orchard shielded pool on May 29th (a serious problem in zero knowledge proof circuits that can infinitely forge ZEC) He combined Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model (the latest model released by Anthropic the day before) for targeted auditing, quickly wrote a complete exploit program, and successfully generated infinite fake ZEC locally There should be many people using AI to search for BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB... vulnerabilities in these cryptocurrencies