Arthur Hayes Sells NEAR, Worldcoin And Zcash In Rotation To Energy Stocks
Arthur Hayes says he has sold several altcoin positions while keeping core BTC and ETH exposure and rotating toward Treasuries and energy stocks.
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Zcash Founder Says Anthropic AI Audit Found No Serious Protocol Bugs
Zooko Wilcox said an Anthropic Mythos AI audit found no serious Zcash protocol bugs.
Arthur Hayes Sells WLD Holdings After ‘Holy Trinity Death’, Sparks Exit Liquidity Controversy
Arthur Hayes has disclosed the unwinding of his Worldcoin position just days after revealing a major rebalancing of Maelstrom’s portfolio. On Friday, June 5th, the BitMEX co-founder proclaimed that “the Holy Trinity is dead,” dumping his Zcash, Hyperliquid, and NEAR holdings while touting WLD’s prospects of outperforming. Hayes revealed the recently found Orchard Pool vulnerability […]
Monero Next? Researcher Who Found The Zcash Flaw Targets XMR For Future Audit
The security researcher, who discovered the Orchard Pool vulnerability in Zcash, says he has added other privacy-focused coins, including Monero, to his audit queue. Researcher To Audit Monero After Finding Zcash Flaw Security engineer Taylor Hornby, who used the Claude AI Opus 4.8 model, has revealed that he intends to audit Monero, among other crypto […]
$420 Billion In Zcash Tracked By Arkham — Is This The End Of The Privacy Coin’s Core Promise?
Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham Intelligence has published research revealing that it has successfully labeled more than half of all Zcash transaction activity — attributing $420 billion in volume to known individuals and institutions — a finding that strikes at the core value proposition of a cryptocurrency explicitly designed to make financial transactions invisible. Related Reading: […]
Zcash Is Up 1,500% And Its Biggest Backer Says This Is Why
Zcash’s sharp revival did not happen by accident, according to Josh Swihart, who argues that ZEC’s roughly 1,500% rally reflects a multi-year reset across governance, product strategy, narrative positioning and organizational structure. In a detailed update, Swihart framed Zcash’s recent strength as the result of hard decisions made in 2023 and 2024 that are now […]
Shielded Labs Warns Zcash Must Act Now To Win Long-Term Investors
Shielded Labs is urging the Zcash community to move quickly on long-term sustainability changes, arguing that the network has a near-term opening to attract patient capital and should not wait for that window to close. The pitch is not just technical. In Shielded Labs’ telling, protocol-level clarity around future security and emissions could itself become […]
Zcash Developers Spin Out New Wallet After ECC Breakup
A day after the Electric Coin Company’s breakup, the team behind Zashi said it is spinning out into a new Zcash-focused company and launching a new wallet built from the existing Zashi codebase. The move is framed as an effort to “scale Zcash to billions,” while keeping the group’s work narrowly centered on the Zcash […]
Zcash Developer Rift: Entire ECC Team Walks Out Of Bootstrap
The entire Electric Coin Company (ECC) team behind privacy coin Zcash has left Bootstrap, a nonprofit created to support the token, after what ECC CEO Josh Swihart described as a governance breakdown that made the team’s work untenable. Swihart said the team will form a new company and continue building on Zcash, while stressing that […]
Is Zcash Quantum-Resistant Yet? Experts Weigh In
A debate on X this week exposed a core question for on-chain privacy: when quantum computers are able to break elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), will they be able to retroactively deanonymize every transaction ever made of privacy coins like Zcash? Nic Carter, co-founder of Coin Metrics and partner at Castle Island Ventures, argued that the answer […]