aut-ct already works as a tool, and can do this. I just need some people to pay attention to it, as well as audit it. But I'm not particularly optimistic about that.
With most such tools it's often better to just "launch" something as people's usage will attract the necessary attention. For a "this proves I own bitcoin in this range across N utxos" tool, as exists in aut-ct, the natural user is some medium size bitcoin business that wants to prove utxos with privacy, a much smaller group, more conservative in its actions (and indeed, I can't even recommend using it without some audit, anyway).
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Another thing to keep in mind is that it *requires* using taproot, and (imo) that will continue to be under-adopted until it's in wide adoption on Lightning.
You can still get very large anon sets within taproot today, but for a typical user, having to switch infrastructure to taproot may (or may not) be a pain.
It's quite striking that while Binance uses sophisticated ZK techniques for the liabilities, for the assets they literally just publish all their addresses in a spreadsheet!
If mempool.space adds a feature to prove you own a UTXO using aut-ct, it could gain some traction.