According to Odaily Odaily, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated in an article on X that a security audit conducted by Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model did not find any "more serious vulnerabilities" in the Zcash protocol. The audit was requested by Shielded Labs, a Swiss non-profit organization that supports the development of Zcash.
On June 3, Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard trading after discovering a vulnerability in the shielding pool, but restored the functionality later that day through an emergency upgrade. The issue stemmed from a forgery vulnerability in the Orchard shielding pool that had existed for four years, discovered by security researcher Taylor Hornby with assistance from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model. The Zcash Foundation stated that there was no evidence of the vulnerability being exploited, no unauthorized value creation was detected, and user privacy was unaffected.
Anthropic released the first public version of its Claude Mythos model, Fable 5, on Tuesday, and announced on Friday that it had suspended access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to an export control order issued by the U.S. government citing national security concerns. (Cointelegraph)
