Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto’s Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn’t Ready – Decrypt

Jun 7, 2026 - 19:30
Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto’s Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn’t Ready – Decrypt
In brief Security researcher Taylor Hornby used Claude Opus 4.8 to discover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool that could have enabled unlimited counterfeit ZEC creation. Cybersecurity researchers say frontier AI models are increasingly capable of finding cryptographic and logic flaws that previously required deep specialist expertise. Experts warn that capabilities approaching today’s...

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