The privacy sector of cryptocurrencies has risen 213% since Bitcoin's October 2025 high, outperforming all other sectors which remain below their previous peaks. Zcash (ZEC) has been the main driver, soaring 2,496% and moving from the 82nd to the 7th largest cryptocurrency by market cap. The sector's total market value increased from $7.1 billion to $33.6 billion, nearly matching Tron’s valuation. This growth is broad-based, with all eight privacy coins with over a year of trading history posting gains, and the sector remains the only major crypto category trading above its level from Bitcoin's peak.
Zcash (ZEC) saw a 3.62% price increase over four hours, rising from $1,293 to $1,340 by 4:02 p.m. ET on October 5. During the same period, short liquidations totaling $120,000 occurred across Binance, Bybit, and OKX, while no long liquidations were r...
Samson Mow, a Bitcoin maximalist, criticized Zcash's 1,000% year-to-date price surge as artificially inflated and unsustainable. He argues that the market lacks enough speculative capital to maintain Zcash's high valuation and expects a major correct...
Zcash has activated its NU7 network upgrade on the public testnet, reducing block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. This change aims to speed up transaction confirmations, benefiting point-of-sale payments, exchange deposits, and cross-chain bridg...
US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $241.1 million in net inflows last week, marking their third consecutive week of gains and lifting total inflows since launch to $57.8 billion. In contrast, Ether ETFs experienced $138 million in net outflows after a st...
Zcash has activated its NU7 network upgrade on the testnet as of October 4, initiating live testing of faster 25-second block intervals and a new Network Sustainability Mechanism that reallocates part of transaction fees to future block rewards. This...
