Zcash privacy pool exploit uncovered by AI, ZEC price halved mid-session Previously, many on social media misinterpreted this as 'ZEC might undergo inflation,' but that's not accurate. This isn’t inflation in the traditional sense: the 21 million ZEC cap remains unchanged. The real impact is on users in the privacy pool. In theory, attackers could forge assets within the Orchard privacy pool and withdraw real ZEC from the pool. The vulnerability has now been patched, and no significant abnormal withdrawals have been detected on-chain so far. However, due to the nature of the privacy pool, it’s still hard to fully confirm whether it was exploited in the past. What the market is truly worried about is the security and trust crisis surrounding the privacy pool.