On Monday, January 26, the price of Zcash fell to a two-month low of $326. However, over the past day, the cryptocurrency has partially recovered its losses and is now fluctuating around $368. At present, there are prerequisites for further growth.
Following the decision by the U.S. financial regulator, Zcash surged in price. As of 9:35 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday, January 14, the token reached $438, gaining more than 12% on the day.
Dubai’s financial regulator has banned the use of privacy cryptocurrencies, including Monero and Zcash. As of January 12, new rules governing digital assets came into force in the emirate’s international financial zone, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), CoinDesk reported.
According to former ECC CEO Josh Swihart, the new wallet will be built on the same codebase as Zashi. It is expected to be released within a few weeks. The project has been given the codename cashZ. Users of the current Zashi wallet will be able to migrate to the new platform without any issues. No further details about the functionality of cashZ have been disclosed so far.
A split among Zcash (ZEC) developers is likely to result in the emergence of a new privacy-focused cryptocurrency. As learned by the editors of Happy Coin News, a rift has occurred between members of the non-profit organization Bootstrap and the Electric Coin Company. As a result, the Electric Coin Company team has left the ZEC ecosystem development project due to disagreements with four members of Bootstrap’s board of directors.
According to experts, next year the demand for privacy assets amid blockchain integration into traditional finance will continue to grow. The crypto market in general is currently showing some positive dynamics mainly due to anonymous coins. The increasing share of privacy-protecting coins in the total volume of digital assets indicates a growing interest in the protocol features that ensure confidentiality, noted Grayscale specialists.
After dropping nearly 10% from Monday’s high of $454, the price of Zcash (ZEC) managed to recover most of its losses, as bulls successfully held the $400 support level.
The privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) dropped sharply from a peak slightly above $741 on November 15 to a low of $411 on Tuesday, December 16. Meanwhile, its competitor Monero (XMR) continues to rise, gaining more than 15% over the past seven days.
Zcash is trading around $456 today after a sharp 12% gain over the past 24 hours, extending the weekly recovery and reversing the post-month decline. The rebound followed strong interest in Cypherpunk Technologies and rising spot inflows, with buyers testing the first major resistance zone around $472–485.
Analysts reported the deanonymization of owners of 48% of the network’s incoming and outgoing data, as well as 37% of all balances. The U.S. authorities were identified as one of the largest holders of the privacy coin Zcash. In 2018, U.S. law enforcement seized $737,000 worth of the anonymous cryptocurrency from the creator of the darknet platform AlphaBay, Alexander Kazes.
The cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) continues to hold strong and is trading at $585. Despite a weekly decline of 18%, the privacy coin is up 108% over the past 30 days. This surge has pushed the Zcash network to the top of the PoW segment, and the Equihash algorithm in ZEC is now more profitable than Bitcoin’s SHA256.
OKX, the largest offshore crypto exchange focused on the Chinese-speaking market, has announced the relisting of Zcash (ZEC) for spot trading. Trading will begin on November 24, 2025, at 15:00 (MSK). This decision is especially notable given that between January 4 and 5, 2024, the exchange simultaneously removed three major privacy coins: Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH).
BTCFI is a unique program by Starknet designed to make Bitcoin a more active participant in decentralized finance (DeFi). For this purpose, a special mechanism — BTC staking — was launched. Its essence is that holders of the largest cryptocurrency can stake their coins to secure the Starknet network. As a reward for staking, BTC holders will receive STRK tokens. The total expected reward is set at 100 million coins.
We explain which cryptocurrencies from the top 100 grew the most during the week ending November 15 and what events accompanied their rise. The seven-day period up to November 15 saw overall negative market dynamics
Leap Therapeutics, a company whose shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange, has changed its name to Cypherpunk Technologies Inc. after adopting a new strategy focused on accumulating digital assets. The main focus is on the privacy cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC).
The director of the family investment firm Maelstrom, Arthur Hayes, is preparing to buy Zcash (ZEC) at the bottom — at a relatively high price. After reaching a peak of $744, the ZEC price dropped by more than 40%, forming a bearish “double top” pattern on the chart.
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