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Anthropic’s Mythos AI finds no more ‘serious’ bugs in Zcash: Wilcox
Latest NewsPublishedJun 13, 2026
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated Anthropic’s Mythos AI model found no further “serious bugs” in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated a security audit by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos artificial intelligence model found no serious vulnerabilities in the privacy-preserving cryptocurrency’s protocol.
Requested by Shielded Labs, a Swiss-based non-profit supporting the development of Zcash, the AI security audit did not find “any more serious bugs” in the Zcash protocol, as reported by a Saturday X post by Wilcox.
On June 3, Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after discovering a vulnerability in the shielded pool. Functionality was restored later that day through an emergency upgrade.
The issue stemmed from a four-year-old forgery bug in the Orchard shielded pool that was discovered by security researcher Taylor Hornby with the help of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 model. The Zcash Foundation stated there was no evidence that the vulnerability was exploited, nor was there any unauthorized value creation detected, while user privacy was unaffected.
Source: Zooko Wilcox
AI models spark crypto security concerns
While developers are using new AI models to identify vulnerabilities, the technology is simultaneously raising security concerns across the crypto industry.
On Tuesday, Anthropic released the first public version of its Claude Mythos model, Fable 5. The company stated last month that the Mythos model uncovered more than 10,000 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities in “systemically crucial software,” leading to concerns about whether it should be publicly released.
The company stated users that Fable 5 was “made safe for general utilize” and has safeguards that reroute some topics, such as cybersecurity, to a different model, Claude Opus 4.8.
On Friday, Anthropic stated it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a US government export control directive citing national security concerns.
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