A Bug Could Have Printed Unlimited Zcash For Four Years. Did Anyone?

On June 5, 2026, Zcash fell 30 to 50 percent in a single day. The trigger was the kind of disclosure privacy-coin holders dread. A flaw had been sitting in Zcash’s shielded transaction circuit since May 2022, and for those four years it could have let someone mint counterfeit ZEC that nobody would ever see.