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$0.099362

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Zcash

zec

$557.38

5.36%

Oct 28th, 2016

Privacy Coins

Layer 1 (L1)

Near Protocol Ecosystem

Zero Knowledge (ZK)

24-Hour Range

$525.21

$559.19

Low

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Market Cap (Mcap)

Rank

#13

Mcap

$9.30B

Fully Diluted Mcap

$9.30B

Supply

Circulating

16,688,225

Total

21,000,000

Created On

Oct 28th, 2016

All Time High (ATH)

ATH

$3.19k

ATH Change

-82.54%

ATH Date

Oct 29th, 2016

Total Value Locked (TVL)

TVL

N/A

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What is Zcash (ZEC)? The Privacy Coin Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to hide key details of transactions by leveraging zk-SNARKs.

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Zcash News

May 8, 2026

Technology

Zcash Targeting Post-Quantum Crypto Milestone by 2027

Privacy coin Zcash is the latest cryptocurrency preparing to address the mounting threat of quantum attacks. Speaking during a Thursday address at Consensus Miami's Privacy track, Zcash Open Development Lab founder and CEO Josh Swihart said that quantum-recoverable wallets for the privacy coin are set to roll out within a month, with Zcash targeting full post-quantum status within 12 to 18 months. Within the same period, the network is also aiming to achieve throughput on a par with Mastercard...

by Decrypt Agent · 2 min read

May 6, 2026

Markets

Zcash Leads Privacy Coin Surge With 37% Gains on MultiCoin Investment

Zcash led a surge in privacy-focused cryptocurrencies on Wednesday, jumping 37% in the past 24 hours after crypto investment firm Multicoin Capital disclosed that it had built a "significant position" in the privacy coin. The rally follows a Tuesday tweet thread by investment firm Multicoin's Cofounder and Managing Partner Tushar Jain, calling Zcash a "return to the cypherpunk ideals crypto was founded on." 1/ Multicoin has built a significant position in $ZEC since February. Zcash is a return...

by Akash Girimath · 4 min read

Apr 13, 2026

Markets

Foundry Launches Zcash Mining Pool Alongside Industry-Leading Bitcoin Pool

Foundry Digital, operator of the world's largest Bitcoin mining pool, officially launched its Foundry Zcash Pool on Monday with multiple institutional mining customers already onboarded. The pool has captured about 29% of the Zcash network's hashrate since its March announcement, per on-chain data, marking a rapid expansion into privacy-focused cryptocurrency mining beyond Bitcoin. Foundry CEO Mike Colyer positioned the launch as addressing a critical infrastructure gap around the coin, which s...

by Decrypt Agent · 2 min read

Apr 10, 2026

Markets

Zcash Could Rise to $420 After 62% Weekly Price Spike, Traders Predict

Traders have flipped optimistic on an even bigger near-term surge for privacy-focused token Zcash (ZEC) after a nearly 62% boost in the last week of trading. ZEC is changing hands around $379.89 on Friday, up 15% in the last 24 hours, 62% in the last week, and now more than 77% in the last month. That move has shifted odds of the token jumping to $420 in April—a further 10% move up—to 60% on Myriad, a prediction market operated by Decrypt’s parent company, Dastan. The odds shift represents a s...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Mar 31, 2026

Technology

Zcash Vulnerability That Put Millions of Dollars of ZEC at Risk Has Been Fixed

A security researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash nodes that could have allowed malicious miners to drain more than 25,000 ZEC from the network's deprecated Sprout shielded pool—a sum worth about $6.5 million at writing. Alex "Scalar" Sol disclosed the flaw on March 23, according to a disclosure report released Tuesday, revealing that zcashd nodes were skipping proof verification for transactions involving the legacy Sprout pool. The bug was not exploited and all users' funds re...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Mar 17, 2026

Markets

AI, Privacy Coins Lead Altcoin Rally as Bitcoin Tops $75K

Altcoins in the artificial intelligence and privacy sectors recorded significant gains following Bitcoin's extended recovery rally on Monday, triggering a broader risk-on rotation across crypto markets. Zcash surged 17.9% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data, while Midnight and Monero, posted gains of 4.1% and 3.3% on the day respectively. Meanwhile, AI coins including Virtuals Protocol and Near Protocol both ticked up by 3.8% over the past 24 hours. The rally follows Bitcoin's cl...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Mar 11, 2026

Coins

Top Bitcoin Mining Pool Operator Foundry Is Getting Into Zcash

Foundry Digital said on Wednesday that it plans to offer a mining pool for Zcash next month, enabling people to earn the privacy-focused cryptocurrency using shared resources. The move is aimed at publicly traded companies and financial institutions, which lack the necessary infrastructure to participate in the process of validating Zcash transactions, the operator of Bitcoin’s leading mining pool said in a press release. In a statement, Foundry CEO Mike Colyer said that Zcash has “matured into...

by André Beganski · 3 min read

Mar 9, 2026

Markets

Zcash Outpaces Bitcoin Gains as Key Development Team Raises $25 Million

Privacy coin Zcash is one of the biggest crypto gainers over the past day, rising 7% and outpacing Bitcoin’s own rebound as a key team of core developers just raised a Series A round of funding for their fresh venture. Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) said Monday that it has raised over $25 million in funding from a prominent group of investors including Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Zcash treasury firm Cypherpunk Technologies, and notable angel investor...

by Andrew Hayward · 2 min read

Feb 27, 2026

Business

Ban on Crypto Privacy Tools Would Be Counterproductive: UK Think Tank

A report from the world’s oldest defense and security think tank has warned against banning blockchain-based privacy tools, arguing that blanket prohibition would merely result in bad actors using noncompliant services. In a paper titled, ‘Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in the Crypto Industry,’ the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) highlighted a “need to balance compliance objectives” with the growing role of privacy-related protocols and platforms in the cryptocurrency sector....

by Simon Chandler · 3 min read

Feb 16, 2026

Technology

Binance Founder CZ: Privacy 'Missing Link' for Crypto Payments Adoption

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has argued that privacy is the most significant unresolved challenge facing crypto, and that the industry needs to move faster to address it. Speaking on the All-In Podcast with venture capitalist and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya last week, CZ said most digital assets fall short on privacy protections, leaving users exposed in ways that cash never would. "I think privacy plays a very fundamental role in our society," CZ said. "But right now, I also thin...

by Vismaya V · 4 min read

Feb 16, 2026

Business

Animoca Granted Dubai License Amid Stricter Crypto Oversight

Animoca Brands has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), clearing the way for the Web3 investment giant to offer broker-dealer and asset management services to institutional and qualified investors in and from the emirate. The licence, announced Monday, authorizes Animoca to operate across the broader emirate of Dubai, excluding the separate Dubai International Financial Centre, and is the latest move by the region to bu...

by Vismaya V · 3 min read

Feb 16, 2026

Markets

Crypto Traders Rotate Into Select Altcoins as Bitcoin Stalls

A selection of altcoins have posted double-digit gains over the past week, while Bitcoin remains less volatile and range-bound. Bitcoin has been trading below $71,000 since February 6, when it briefly touched $62,822, according to CoinGecko data. That indecision—coupled with five separate liquidation events that wiped out over $1 billion in positions in 2026, per CoinGlass—has prompted investors to scan the altcoin landscape for speculative trading opportunities. The result is a selective rotat...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Feb 12, 2026

Markets

Aster, Hyperliquid, Hedera Jump Amid Altcoin Bounce

The cryptocurrency market cap is steadily turning green, with altcoins accelerating their recovery bounce over the past day. The native token of perps DEX Aster is up nearly 10% over the past 24 hours, making it the largest gainer in the top 50 altcoins by market capitalization. Other tokens including Hyperliquid and World Liberty Financial have followed suit, bouncing 8.9% and 7.6% respectively, according to data from price aggregator CoinGecko. The broader altcoin sector has also seen gains,...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read

Feb 11, 2026

Markets

Zcash, BNB, Sui Lead Altcoin Losses As Crypto Market Slides

Altcoins continued to extend losses on Wednesday as the February selloff intensified, with Solana, XRP, BNB, and other major tokens shedding between 4% and 6% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. Zcash is the largest loser among the top 30 altcoins, dropping 6.5% in the past 24 hours, per CoinGecko data. BNB, Sui, Hyperliquid and XRP followed, with losses of 6.1%, 5.8%, 4.3% and 4.2% respectively. The downtrend that began after Bitcoin’s October peak gained momentum in early February, tr...

by Akash Girimath · 2 min read

Feb 3, 2026

Markets

Privacy Coins Slide as Monero, Zcash Lead Losses

Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies led losses across the digital asset market on Tuesday, with the sector falling sharply even as broader declines remained more contained. Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) were among the weakest performers in the top 100 by market capitalization, both dropping by about 8% over the past 24 hours. Monero and Zcash both posted sharp losses on the day, showing declines that were deeper than the broader privacy coin average of 5.8%, according to CoinGecko data. Monero is d...

by Vince Dioquino · 3 min read

Jan 28, 2026

Markets

Gemini Launches Zcash Credit Card That Pays ZEC Rewards

Publicly traded crypto exchange Gemini unveiled its latest branded crypto credit card this week, launching a card that highlights the privacy-focused Zcash (ZEC) token. The Gemini Credit Card Zcash Edition follows the firm’s launch of Bitcoin, Solana, and XRP-themed cards that similarly provide crypto rewards with every purchase. “Privacy is normal and a precondition to your freedom and self-sovereignty,” Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss posted on X. Privacy is normal and a precondition to...

by Logan Hitchcock · 2 min read

Jan 27, 2026

Markets

Zcash Sentiment Ticks Up as Privacy Coin's Price Jumps 9%

Market sentiment for Zcash looks more optimistic today among traders, as users on prediction market Myriad now think there’s a 40% chance the privacy coin will hit $550 before it hits $250—up roughly 8% from Monday’s low. The news comes as Zcash is now up 8.7% in the past 24 hours, hitting $381, according to CoinGecko data. Zcash’s rocky month Market sentiment still inclines bearish after sentiment flipped at the start of last week, according to traders on Myriad, owned by Decrypt’s parent comp...

by Will McCurdy · 2 min read

Jan 23, 2026

The Coins

What is Zcash (ZEC)? The Privacy Coin Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

For many years, Bitcoin was used to buy drugs online because it was believed to be anonymous. Turns out, it’s surprisingly easy to track Bitcoin transactions. Zcash, on the other hand, is a cryptocurrency that promised something Bitcoin couldn’t deliver: privacy. How Zcash works Zcash is designed to hide key transaction details, such as the sender, recipient, and amount. By using cryptographic techniques, transfers can be made that can’t easily be traced on a public ledger while remaining verifi...

by Matt Hussey, Jason Nelson · 7 min read

Jan 22, 2026

Coins

What’s Next for Zcash After Electric Coin Company Exodus and New CEO?

Privacy coin Zcash has plummeted in recent weeks, falling by double-digits month-on-month amid turmoil and executive departures at the nonprofit that created and supports the project. Zcash is currently trading at $363.10, up 0.5% on the day according to CoinGecko data. On prediction market Myriad, owned by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, users flipped bearish on the cryptocurrency this week, placing a 61% chance on Zcash's next move taking it to $250 rather than $550—up from lows of 37% last...

by Will McCurdy · 4 min read

Jan 19, 2026

Markets

Privacy Coins Monero, Dash and Dusk Defy Crypto Market Slump

Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies including Monero and Dash have climbed despite a broader crypto market drop that liquidated nearly $1 billion in positions. Over the past 24 hours, while Bitcoin dropped 2.3% and most altcoins are down 3% to 10%, Dash and Monero are up 1.9% and 8.3% respectively, while the privacy coin category is up 4% on the day and 13.1% on the week, according to CoinGecko data. Dash is trading at $81.61, up 119% over the past week. Monero, which hit a new all-time high last...

by Akash Girimath · 3 min read