The researcher who helped surface a severe soundness flaw in Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool isn’t slowing down. Taylor Hornby, the security engineer who used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 AI model to find the vulnerability, confirmed he will add Monero and other privacy-focused cryptocurrencies to his upcoming audit queue, according to the original report. The sequence shifts focus from a single bug fix to a broader campaign examining the soundness of privacy coin architecture.