Digital Assets Watch: Anthropic’s Secret AI Model Mythos Audits Entire Zcash Protocol, Finds No New Bugs

Latest reporting indicates that zcash founder Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn publicly thanked Anthropic this week, confirming the artificial intelligence (AI) company ran a full security audit of the Zcash protocol using its restricted frontier model, Mythos, and found no additional critical vulnerabilities.

The statement came directly from Zooko, the online handle for Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, computer security specialist, cryptographer, and co-creator of Zcash.

Writing on X, he said: “Thanks, Anthropic, for helping protect Zcash users.

At Shielded Labs’s request, they ran a security audit of Zcash with Mythos.

It did not find any more serious bugs in the Zcash protocol.

Shielded Labs and others are continuing security hardening work.

Stay tuned for updates.” The post arrived one week after the public disclosure of a critical soundness bug in the Orchard shielded pool, which had triggered a 38% to 50% price collapse in ZEC within 48 hours of going public on June 4 and 5.

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview is the company’s most advanced AI model, introduced in April 2026 as part of its Project Glasswing defensive security initiative.