Shares of Cypherpunk Technologies plunged more than 40% following the disclosure of a critical bug that was recently patched in Zcash.

ZEC fell on Thursday after the disclosure of a flaw in Zcash’s Orchard circuit that would have allowed unlimited counterfeit ZEC minting with no way to cryptographically prove…

Shielded Labs revealed that the bug could have helped an attacker print unlimited counterfeit tokens. That could have damaged trust in the token's supply and its value.