Every Zipp story tagged #ZeroKnowledge, newest first.
The 52-bit gap sits inside one cryptographic reduction, koalaIRS12, not the full zkEVM. A production-grade proof still needs system-wide soundness accounting across multiple components before the…
The 2026 rule makes formally verified 128-bit soundness the condition behind the performance gain, since an unsound proof could let attackers rewrite Ethereum state.
Investors are recasting Zcash's zero-knowledge features as data-security exposure as AI and global data collection expand.
Developers say the flaw was patched before any known exploit, but the market selloff lays bare how quickly trust collapses around a privacy coin when the integrity of its hidden supply is questioned.
Public blockchains expose too much for institutional money to onboard, but Miden's USDCx combines privacy-by-default with selective audit-friendly disclosure in a USDC-backed stablecoin for the first…
A formally verified pool that reuses a patched circuit is the bridge, not the destination: Zcash's ecosystem is rebuilding trust after the Orchard disclosure wiped out more than half of ZEC's price.
Hoskinson turned the exploit into a policy pitch for zero-knowledge over legacy bridges, but the 43% crash to an all-time low shows how exposed even ZK-native chains still are when they rely on…
Brian Trunzo argues that detection and disclosure have already lost the AI content war, and that cryptographic proofs, the same primitive that secured billions in blockchain assets, are the only way…
Project Eleven's zero-knowledge proof makes BIP-361's freeze recoverable for any post-2012 wallet with a seed phrase, but the 1.1 million BTC Satoshi mined before BIP-32 had no derivation tree to…
The new full node lands a week before zcashd's July 18 end of life and three weeks ahead of the Ironwood hard fork that traps any counterfeit ZEC still inside Orchard.
KOSA and EU Chat Control both retreated on their loudest provisions this week, but the quiet one that survived, mandatory age checks, hands every platform an identity-collection mandate masquerading…
The Aztec Foundation says the breached product is a four-year-old immutable stage 2 rollup with no ties to current network contracts or the AZTEC token — but a related validation flaw just drained…
Solana infrastructure firm Helius has acquired Light Protocol, a move that signals a direct push to embed onchain…
A four-year dormant bug in Zcash's shielded-pool cryptography — discovered by AI, not a human auditor — reminds the market that 'private by design' is a promise, not a guarantee.
Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin has put a concrete timeline on one of the network's most ambitious long-term goals: a…
Buterin's privacy warning, echoed from a Zcash founder's framing, is the clearest signal yet that Ethereum's research community sees on-chain transparency as an active liability, not just a…
Capex is crowding out rate-cut oxygen while an AI-assisted Zcash Orchard flaw shows the next crypto security crisis may live in the base layer.
The flaw sat in the zero-knowledge circuit behind Orchard's shielded pool, was found with Anthropic's Opus 4.8, and a five-day emergency response contained it; the harder question is whether privacy…
The flaw was theoretical-cum-practical: an AI audit surfaced a soundness break in the proof system that, unpatched, would have eroded the entire shielded supply.
A patched Orchard circuit vulnerability — present since May 2022 — turned a 31% ZEC drawdown into a referendum on whether AI-assisted white-hat review can outrun AI-assisted attackers.
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