Over the past day or so a serious bug in the Zcash Orchard shielded pool source code came to light which casts doubt over the overall integrity of the Zcash ecosystem.
It is possible that ZEC was counterfeited within the Orchard shielded pool, and because of the privacy guarantees there is no definitive way to determine whether the flaw was exploited before it was patched. Developers point to the network’s “turnstile” accounting as preventing inflation of the total supply, but that assurance now rests on a mechanism whose surrounding code just failed an audit for four years running.
This infographic takes you through the gory details:
The way to understand the ZCash bug is it’s not infinite mint of ZEC itself. It’s more like the shielded pool (Orchard) could become insolvent. Think of it more like the KelpDAO hack for ETH.
Very little reason not to proactively unshield any ZEC today. Being early to the exit… pic.twitter.com/jMunPMexgS
— Doug Colkitt (@0xdoug) June 5, 2026
Combined with lacklustre uptake in transaction volume in ZEC (which was in contrast with every other crypto-currency we accept), we’ve decided to sunset ZEC payments, effective immediately.
This marks the second crypto currency payment type we’ve wound down over the years, the first being Bitcoin Cash, in 2019.
easyDNS currently accepts: Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and DOGE. Yes. Doge.
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