How One Guy Used Claude Code to Discover a Billion-Dollar Bug
A security researcher used AI-assited auditing to uncover a major flaw in the Zcash protocol that could have allowed undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside the network’s Orchard shielded pool. Taylor Hornby, a security researcher who works with Shielded Labs, discovered a bug on May 29, 2026 – just one day after Anthropic released Opus 4.8-…
