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Zcash was rumored to have stopped working – then it became crypto’s only winner
Zcash rallied after a critical Orchard flaw was patched, even as broader crypto markets fell under liquidation pressure.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 5 min read
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Ethereum’s privacy push faces a 12-month deadline as markets reward privacy-first assets
ETH’s weak price action and thinning holder participation have raised the stakes for Buterin’s push toward private transactions.
Hacks
THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
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Wallets
Bitcoin holders can now hide more of their activity, but only by trusting new middlemen
Starknet’s strkBTC launch highlights a broader Bitcoin privacy tradeoff, where the fastest way to shield BTC may be to move it into wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems that add new trust assumptions.
AI
Firefox finds 20 year old bug and patches 14 months of fixes in 30 days using Anthropic’s Mythos AI
Mozilla’s 20-year Firefox bug shows the risk of AI-accelerated zero-day discovery
Price Watch
Zcash just exploded 40% – and the privacy coin rally is no longer just a crypto-native trade
Investors bet that the rise of AI and global data collection will force a massive premium on the zero-knowledge privacy features of ZEC.
Privacy
Zcash breaks away from Bitcoin as privacy coin rally finds a second driver
The move goes beyond risk-on relief, with traders leaning into Zcash’s institutional story while Dash behaves more like a squeeze.
Privacy
Cardano’s $9B network has little real activity — its new system aims to fix that
Midnight’s launch gives Charles Hoskinson a live test of whether privacy, compliance and easier app development can bring new users and businesses into the broader Cardano ecosystem.
Crypto
Traders bet against Cardano as its biggest new network launches this week
As Cardano faces negative sentiment, Midnight's privacy focus presents a novel approach to institutional engagement.
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Google Cloud and MoneyGram just signed on to run launch Midnight nodes for new privacy network banks want
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