Zilliqa: Ledger Nonce Flaw Confirmed

Zilliqa published its Ledger Incident Hub confirming a critical nonce-generation flaw in the legacy Ledger app that weakened Schnorr signatures, allowing private key recovery from on-chain data after roughly five transactions; native transactions stay paused while the Zilliqa EVM remains fully operational and users require no immediate action.

The defect, present since 2019, stemmed from incorrect 32-byte copying that fixed the top 64 bits of every ephemeral nonce at zero, enabling lattice attacks; KuCoin identified active exploitation on 19 July 2026 and collaborated on remediation, with a corrected app build now in final testing alongside Ledger.

Price action on the 4h chart shows ZIL inside the Bollinger Bands with upper resistance at $0.0 while RSI(14) sits at 86.59 in overbought territory and MACD registers a bullish golden cross; with price testing upper Bollinger resistance ($0.0) while RSI flashes overbought (86.59), a healthy retracement to the 50-EMA support at $0.0 seems probable before further continuation, shaping near-term ZIL price prediction amid broader crypto market crash concerns and limited AI industry impact on legacy chains like BTC.