Zcash Bug Could Have Minted Fake ZEC for 4 Years
Orchard's privacy shield means a counterfeiting flaw cannot be ruled out retroactively, and the market is treating that uncertainty as if it had already happened.
Court rulings, lawsuits, settlements, indictments, and litigation involving crypto firms and protocols.
Orchard's privacy shield means a counterfeiting flaw cannot be ruled out retroactively, and the market is treating that uncertainty as if it had already happened.
One of crypto's loudest perma-bulls just walked away, citing weak risk-reward — and named Michael Saylor's Strategy as the canary he thinks is starting to crack.
A New York Supreme Court judge has stayed a lawsuit seeking ownership of nearly 40,000 dormant Bitcoin wallets…
The Bridge is paused, the validation flaw is identified, and ~5B SYS in tainted outputs now sit on the UTXO chain — the structural question is whether exchanges can isolate the trail fast enough to…
A New York Supreme Court justice blocked any default judgment in the 'Noah Doe' case after an amicus brief argued the state's lost-and-found statute was never designed to seize blockchain addresses —…
The protocol is also freezing locked LAB from NAV until August — but on-chain investigator ZachXBT says the strategy was the real mistake, not the unwind.
Three years ago, the SEC filed a sweeping lawsuit against Coinbase, alleging the exchange operated as an unregistered…
Britain's ban on retail crypto derivatives puts Hyperliquid on the wrong side of UK law, and the platform's HIP-3 push into oil, gold, and equities is exactly the overlap CME and ICE just raised with…
The Orchard counterfeiting vulnerability can't be ruled out from chain data alone, forcing Shielded Labs to propose a shielded-pool migration that resets shielded-state trust from scratch.
The move lands with ETH down 24% on the week and trading below $1,600 — and is the latest in a string of disclosed selling by named Ethereum holders.
The clash crystallises a broader retail-trader grievance: high-profile commentators touting tokens publicly then quietly rotating out before the bid thins out, leaving followers holding the bag.
Three years ago, the SEC filed suit against Coinbase in what many read as an existential regulatory threat to the…
The 1LwWt wallet moved 15 of its 35.55 BTC seven months after its OP_RETURN response window expired, undercutting the abandoned-property theory that underpins the 3.8M BTC claim.
The same engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 to surface a four-year-old Zcash flaw says he is queuing Monero and other privacy coins — and the disclosure-only playbook is now under market test.
The 24-hour reversal is the story: a top-tier crypto voice publicly exited an AI proxy trade in the same window retail was still reading his buy signal, while a SpaceX pre-listing chart he…
Qureshi's read isolates the real exposure: nearly all ZEC market liquidity is transparent, so a shielded-pool counterfeiting bug would have been nearly impossible to cash out at scale.
A 243,300 ETH wallet linked to Joseph Lubin transferred 80,001 ETH ($121.6M) for the first time in over three years — a sizable insider movement right into a fragile macro tape.
The BitMEX co-founder disclosed his exit only after prices rolled over, leaving all three names back where they were before his call went public.
Thorn is still a believer — at 60% he's calling the bill more likely than not — but the next week is dominated by FISA, not market structure, and that's the real reason the calendar is moving against…
A four-year-old Zcash flaw surfaced by an AI model sends the same warning to every bank and protocol still running unverified code: the defender has to be right every time, the attacker only once.