Zano Halts Over Inflation Bug
Zano halted all economic activity after discovering an inflation bug in its Gateway Address asset-issuance mechanism, per the project's security statement, with a coordinated network upgrade and rollback of roughly 24 hours planned. Whether the bug was exploited, and the scale of any minting, was not stated. Zano's governance operates through private staker voting that outside parties cannot observe.
Zano: the rollback undoes the whole pitch
A privacy coin sells you two things: no one can see your money, and no one can quietly print more of it.
Zano just found a bug in its Gateway Addresses feature — the kind that lets someone silently mint coins out of thin air.
Whether anyone actually did, and how many, hasn't been stated. On Zano, it may never be. Every transaction is hidden — including the attacker's.
That's the trap. A transparent chain could trace the fake coins and remove them surgically.
A private chain can't tell the fake from the real. So the fix is a coordinated rollback — rewind the ledger about 24 hours and rebuild it clean. Everyone's transactions, erased. The honest ones too.
And the decision to do it? Zano's governance runs on private staker voting. Nobody outside can watch that either.
So to save the promise that the supply can't be tampered with, a small team is proving the ledger can be rewritten — through a process nobody can observe, fixing damage nobody can measure.
Which promise are holders actually left believing?
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- Security update and coordinated upgrade: · x.com · T2
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