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3 parts February 2026 – July 2026 15 min in total ZK/SEC · zk/sec · False Witness team
  1. Part 1

    zkao: Security That Compounds

    Today we're launching zkao, a product by zkSecurity that makes AI security research work the way fuzzing works: not as a one-shot event, but as something you run continuously until coverage compounds.

  2. Part 2

    Bringing Aleo and Leo into zkao

    We recently brought Leo and Aleo support to zkao, our AI-powered bug-detection tool, and put it to work on a real engagement with HumanityLink. Getting an LLM to audit a young ecosystem like Aleo turned out to be less about the model and more about what we fed it - custom prompts or skills so it actually recognizes Aleo bug patterns, a harness called cheatVM that turns findings into real end-to-end proofs of concept instead of code that just looks right, and a clear threat model that significantly cut down our false positives.

  3. Part 3

    zkao 2.0 is here

    zkao 2.0 is out: a complete redesign of our continuous security scanning tool, a new pay-as-you-go model that replaces subscriptions, and a long list of improvements across scanning, triaging, and reporting.

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