Zcash rallied 490% in the last 30 days and also crossed the $5 billion market capitalization threshold for the first time on Sunday. Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has surged 30% in the last 24 hours after crypto entrepreneur Arthur Hayes predicted the token would eventually reach $10,000. Zcash rallied from $272 to a peak of $355 in the hours after Hayes’s “vibe check” post on X on Sunday with the bullish prediction, outperforming all other top 50 tokens by market capitalization over the same time frame. This isn’t the first time Hayes’ predictions have been linked to a token’s rise. At the August WebX 2025 conference in Tokyo, he stated that Hyperliquid’s HYPE token could increase 126 times over the next three years, which resulted in a 4% spike for HYPE. Read more
Zcash and Dash prices could make an XRP-style comeback as the privacy coin narrative is helping these older “dinosaur” coins break multi-year downtrends. Key takeaways: Zcash and Dash are leading a post-crash “privacy revival,” breaking multi-year downtrends. Monero did not join the rally due to major exchange delistings. Read more
Zcash price technicals hint at a potential 25% breakout toward $336 in October, despite long-term correction fears and an already significant rally for ZEC. Key takeaways: Zcash’s parabolic 520% surge has pushed it to record overbought levels. ZEC price must hold above $245 for the next leg up toward $336. Read more
ZEC recovered all its value lost during Friday's market meltdown and also hit a recent high of $291 before dipping to the $270 level. The price of Zcash (ZEC), a supply-capped, shielded, layer-1 coin dedicated to user privacy, fully recovered following Friday’s market crash, forming a new recent high of about $291 on Saturday before retracing to about $273 at the time of this writing. Zcash plummeted by 45% on Friday, falling from a high of about $273 to $150, following a social media post from United States President Donald Trump announcing 100% tariffs on China, which sent the crypto markets into a meltdown. ZEC is only down about 5.5% from its recent high, making it a standout in this market crash. Many cryptos are still down by double digits from their recent highs, including Ether (ETH), which is down by about 22% from its recent and all-time high of $4,957. Read more
ShapeShift has reintroduced support for Zcash’s shielded transactions, marking its return to privacy-focused cryptocurrency after transitioning into a DEX aggregator. Multichain DEX aggregator Shapeshift announced support for shielded (private) transactions with the Zcash privacy cryptocurrency. According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, ShapeShift’s self-custodial decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator and self-custodial wallet now support Zcash (ZEC) shielded transactions. The announcement comes as Zcash Community Grants allotted $50,000 to support ShapeShift’s technical and marketing investments. According to the announcement, with this move, the organization aims to “offer true privacy on-chain for its users.” Read more