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AI UNCOVERS ZCASH FLAW, TRIGGERING 50% TOKEN CRASH
A cryptographic vulnerability in Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, was discovered and exploited using artificial intelligence, causing the token's value to plummet 50%. The flaw had gone undetected despite years of scrutiny from human cryptographers.
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When Eli Ben-Sasson helped create the Zcash cryptocurrency nearly a decade ago, the cryptographer worried about human ad…