17 stories about Zcash from across the crypto press, curated and summarized daily. Most recent: Jul 19, 2026.
Zcash has launched a new node client called Zakura, the first live piece of a plan to scale the network from roughly one private transaction per second to 50,000 TPS — comparable to Visa's capacity — while maintaining strong privacy protections.
StarkWare and Sui are launching confidential transfer systems that comply with regulations, while Zama is enhancing its compliance efforts. This move comes as a bug in Zcash’s Orchard highlights the risks of unregulated privacy models.
Zcash has finalized its Ironwood upgrade, which will introduce a new shielded pool and ensure the supply of ZEC remains bounded. The upgrade is scheduled to activate in July 2026.
Zcash's value surged by $2.5 billion after its developers announced a fix to address concerns about its coin supply. The upgrade aims to restore confidence in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
Zcash's price surged 42% after the team fixed a critical vulnerability in its privacy-focused Orchard shielded pool. The upgrade required a two-step process to ensure network security and stability.
Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in crypto too. A recent discovery in Zcash's code highlights how AI is becoming a key asset in cybersecurity.
The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first. Experts warn the crypto industry may not be prepared for this new reality.
The price of Zcash cratered following the disclosure of a serious vulnerability for the privacy coin. Can ZEC make a comeback anytime soon?
Shares of Cypherpunk Technologies, the company behind Zcash, fell sharply due to concerns over a privacy bug in the ZEC cryptocurrency. The bug could potentially expose transaction details, raising worries among investors.
Fallout from a bug that enabled undetectable Zcash counterfeiting shows that privacy can sometimes present tradeoffs, experts say.
A security researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash that could have enabled unlimited counterfeit coin creation. The bug was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely. ZEC's price dropped 31% on the news.
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Zcash developers are considering a new shielded pool and turnstile accounting to address a recent bug that allowed counterfeit transactions. This follows concerns about the supply verification process in the Orchard protocol.
An AI model discovered a four-year-old vulnerability in the Zcash cryptocurrency network, prompting warnings that similar flaws could exist in other crypto and traditional financial systems. Security experts urge immediate attention to potential risks across the financial sector.
Bitcoin fell below $62,000 amid a blowout jobs report and a major bug in Zcash that caused its value to drop by 40%. The bug, undetected for four years, has shaken confidence in the crypto market.
Zcash disclosed a flaw that allowed undetectable counterfeiting of its privacy coin, ZEC, causing its price to drop 38%. The vulnerability has sparked renewed debate about the risks of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.
LunarCrush highlights that combining social momentum with market performance can identify top-performing cryptocurrencies. Zcash (ZEC) is currently topping their AltRank due to recent bullish discussions on Bankless.