TLDR of the Zcash vulnerability for dummies.
1. Allowed for an undetectable mint of tokens.
(infinite money glitch)
2. It's been live, unreported for 4 years + was only found with the help of Opus 4.8.
3. Unknown as to whether it was exploited prior to discovery.
Crazy
Take two minutes to read why @zauthinc is going to be a huge company. Today, Zcash gave the perfect example.
Zcash had a vulnerability that let anyone mint unlimited coins and it went undiscovered for four years. It had been audited by some of the best cryptographers alive, and was only caught because Claude released Opus 4.8.
If a four-year-old vulnerability can hide inside Zcash, a protocol with billions of dollars on the line, imagine what's buried inside the software the rest of the world is using and delivering right now.
Eighty million people started building with AI in the last two years. Most never wrote a line of code before, but are launching real apps, taking real payments, holding real user data, and very few know anything about security.
Right now, zauth offers autonomous pentests for web-applications. In the near future, entire codebases, smart contracts, agents, and much more.
Vector, zauth's pentest, was run head-to-head against Aikido which is a billion dollar agentic security company partnered with Lovable. Vector caught twice as many critical vulnerabilities for 1/10th of the price. All the data is published and I'll link it below.
Cybersecurity is a $300 billion market, and every dollar of it was built for a world where humans wrote code slowly and humans reviewed it slowly. The incumbents are bolting AI onto architecture designed before AI existed. They cannot compete. Meanwhile, zauth is building everything from the ground up, and is already proving that they can beat the best.
The same wave (AI) that created 80 million new builders made every one of them and every single user that they have, a target.
There is a massive industry that is being completely rewritten, and zauth has so much in store.
I am not wrong in my conviction.
There's alpha in this article.
Take 3 minutes to read it.
zauth is building in a 300 billion dollar industry that will be revolutionized by AI.
Truly believe solana:DNhQZ1CE9qZ2FNrVhsCXwQJ2vZG8ufZkcYakTS5Jpump is a once in a generation trade.
A real kingmaker.
5 mil to 500mil inbound. Do the math.
Excited to announce our partnership with @poofnew.
Every app shipped on Poof has one-click access to Vector, our agentic pentest.
$49/scan. 9 vulnerabilities found on average. 2x the critical detection rate against leading competitors.
Secure software shouldn't be a luxury.
@undercoverwhale Honestly, this is the most grounded take I've seen in a minute. We always talk about the gains, but learning how to survive the brutal down periods and actually protect your capital is what keeps you in the game. Respect for sharing this 👏🏻
In 2021 I made my first trade and bought the exact top of BTC. 69k. The literal peak of the entire bull run.
And then I watched it bleed for 18 months straight while my port chopped around in the low 5 figures the entire time. I got close to zeroing out more than once in this period. Definitely considered walking away.
I'm telling you this because this market is disgusting and I know exactly what that feels like in your chest. Staring at the screen, feeling like you're wasting your time, accepting the fact that you're going to have to sack up and make something else work.
Almost everyone who's actually made it, the ones who've changed their lives from nothing, started exactly where you are right now.
So stay patient. Don't gamble your port away while chasing gains other people have. Keep your head in the game and learn from your mistakes. I should not have experienced a year and a half of doubt. I made the same mistakes way more than once. I'd hit port ATHs, then foolishly buy more of something than I should have, or double and triple down on a DCA, and go back to square one.
If I could drill one thing into your head, it'd be the massive importance you need to place on protecting your money. You should be scared to hit the buy button.
If you ask the best traders in the space, the vast majority will admit that luck had a large part to play in their success. Mine too.
The beautiful thing about luck, it's not random.
You grind, you learn, and you'll be in the right place at the right time.
Make your own luck.
The author's name on a GitHub commit is easily faked.
It's used to forge credibility and steal real money.
That stops today.
We built the fake, then put our agentic analysis to work in the video.
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@mert Mert! If you're interested in undervalued businesses, I'd love for you to check out @zauthinc.
We're a cybersecurity focused startup and our penetration tests just benchmarked better in every category than Aikido, who recently raised at $1B.
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Staking is live with burns and distributions every 60 days.
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Lots of work in front of us as we look to serve the 80 million new builders that have entered the market in the last 3 years.
Been seeing so many business owners getting screwed by chargebacks and I feel like everyone's ignoring an obvious solution.
If you run an online business, you know chargebacks are a rigged game. A customer can dispute six months after the fact. Claim they never authorized the subscription they've been actively using. Claim the service "wasn't as described" after burning through your API credits. People figured out they can use the product AND get their money back. And the processors don't care, they're not eating the loss, you are.
As a business with reviews, referrals, customers, there is no reason to keep exposing yourself to this. Whether you ship boxes or ship code, the "consumer protection" regime got weaponized into a free returns policy that bypasses your actual terms.
The solution is crypto. No risk of a chargeback.
"My customers don't have crypto" - they don't need to. Helio, Coinbase Commerce, MoonPay, BitPay. Customer checks out with their normal card. You receive stablecoins. The UX is identical, but the settlement is permanent.
Absolutely underrated use case.
The reason I love the idea of a tokenized startup is because there's a very tiny amount of companies in general that actually have the community we have at zauth.
Most companies at our stage are begging for distribution, paying for reach, fighting to get anyone to care. If you scroll on our X, whenever we talk about our services, we get an immense amount of support.
2000 holders (and growing) are aligned with our success.
This is why it's completely reasonable for us as a company to give 50% of our crypto revenue back to the community in some form.
This is what a tokenized startup should look like. If the community is the reason we have distribution, support, and momentum that no other early startup has, then the community should share in what that creates.
I fully believe that it's an extremely compelling narrative for investors, VCs, and individuals. Everyone is looking for the unfair advantage, the thing you can't copy. Ours is a community that is structurally aligned with our success and rewarded for it.
Our future at zauth is blindingly bright, so much work ahead of us, it feels like we haven't even started.
When investing in crypto, it's incredibly rare to find a business with users, revenue, and a low valuation.
So rare, that I've never seen it prior to @zauthinc.
The setup of dreams. A kingmaker.
In the 10 webapps we pentested, we found 17 critical vulnerabilities.
Vector found 16. Aikido found 8.
Aikido had full source code access. We had none.
They found 1 unique critical vulnerability. We found 9.
The executive summary is below.
zauth just beat a billion dollar competitor. It's sitting at a $5 million market cap.
Take two minutes and read why I think this is one of the most bullish, scalable visions I've ever seen.
AI agents are becoming the new layer of the internet. They move money. They write and deploy code. They make decisions at speeds humans can't supervise in real time. The infrastructure to actually secure that, to verify what agents are doing, to protect what they're touching, it barely exists.
That's the canyon, and @zauthinc is building the bridge.
In December, I began as an investor. After weeks of advising behind the scenes and realizing where this ship was going, I had a serious conversation with @willhasroot and became a cofounder. I've been in this space five years, and met a lot of incredible people. Will is by far the most talented and capable developer I've encountered. Not close.
We both graduated college last year. While we have both, this isn't a story about youth or hunger. It's me telling you that we are spending the best years of our lives living, breathing, and sleeping zauth, because we see a billion dollar vision in front of us and we're not letting it go.
Here's the insight that I keep coming back to:
Security was never built for the small developer. Why would it be? Before AI, building a large functional product took thousands of dollars, weeks of time, and an entire team. That same product now takes a $200 subscription and a weekend. The largest growing cohort of developers in history exists right now, and almost none of them have real security tooling available to them.
That's what we change.
I've invested in thousands of projects, and have been fortunate enough to ride quite a few from <$1M to nine figures. I have never been this confident in something. Not even close. And the reason is simple. It is the most real business I've ever been a part of. It's relevant to Web3, but expands far beyond it. The security industry is worth 250 billion dollars and it's going to get flipped on its head. The opportunity in front of zauth is massive. The largest companies in the world have doubled down on our claim that AI security is the future. There is land for the taking.
I don't think you can change your life putting a few thousand dollars into the S&P. I do think that possibility is real with zauth.
This is not financial advice. I am a cofounder and investor.
If you have any questions, feedback, or concerns about zauth, ask away. I am confident that if you take the time to do research on it, you will be as blown away as I was.
Agreeing heavily with Ozen here. Been in Zauth since early on (around December/January) and have only been getting increasingly more bullish.
Huge TAM, gud tek.
Zillions