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zec

$43.16

-2.218%

Oct 28th, 2016

Smart Contract Platform

Privacy

Layer 1 (L1)

Near Protocol Ecosystem

24-Hour Range

$42.60

$44.28

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Rank

#149

Mcap

$700.77M

Fully Diluted Mcap

$700.77M

Supply

Circulating

16,238,942

Total

21,000,000

Created On

Oct 28th, 2016

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ATH

$3.19k

ATH Change

-98.65%

ATH Date

Oct 29th, 2016

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N/A

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What Are Privacy Coins? Monero, Zcash, and Dash Explained

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Zcash News

May 11, 2025

Opinion

Why Wall Street Won’t Embrace Crypto Without Zero-Knowledge Privacy

When you pay with a stablecoin like USDC, you may be giving up more than just money. As long as you’re transacting on a public blockchain, a merchant—or anyone, for that matter—can view your wallet, analyze your past transactions, and use or sell your personal financial history. This feature isn’t a minor inconvenience. It’s why serious institutions, from major banks to government entities, hesitate to adopt blockchain technology. Financial entities, corporations, and sovereign funds would be...

by Howard Wu · 5 min read

Mar 19, 2025

Law and Order

Fully Autonomous AI Could Control Criminal Networks: Europol

Europol has warned that blockchain and AI will “accelerate serious and organised crime” in the coming years, with a new report from the EU law enforcement agency even predicting that fully autonomous AI “could pave the way for entirely AI-controlled criminal networks.” In its 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, Europol suggested that the combination of AI and crypto will serve to expand online fraud schemes, which already represent “the most rapidly expanding sector” in organised...

by Simon Chandler · 4 min read

Dec 10, 2024

Business

US ‘Flips’ to Support Encryption Following China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ Cyberattack

The ‘Salt Typhoon’ cyberattacks by Chinese hackers on governments and businesses have been described as a “watershed moment” by digital privacy advocates, after U.S. officials recommended the use of end-to-end encryption in their aftermath. After U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials urged Americans to use encrypted messaging apps in the wake of the cyberattack, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, creator of privacy coin Zcash, tweeted...

by Luke Edwards · 3 min read

Dec 4, 2024

Markets

Monero Surges to Two-Year High of $211 as Privacy Coins Heat Up

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero surged to over $211.07 earlier today—its highest value since May 2022. At time of publication, Monero has pulled back slightly from its local high, and is currently priced at $205.05, up 17.8% on the day and 30.6% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. Monero's upward momentum comes as the wider privacy coin sector has heated up over the past week, with the category as a whole up over 12% in the past 24 hours alone, according to CoinGecko data. Leading the pa...

by Stephen Graves · 3 min read

Nov 27, 2024

Markets

TORN Jumps 380%, Privacy Coins Railgun, Zcash Surge After Tornado Cash Ruling

Crypto mixer Tornado Cash just flipped the script on the Treasury—and privacy coins are reaping the rewards. Tornado Cash’s native token, TORN, soared to highs of almost $35 Tuesday morning, after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court ruled that immutable smart contracts cannot be classified as “property” under existing law. At time of publication, TORN has pulled back from its local high to trade at $17.17—up 382.9% on the day, per CoinGecko data. The court's landmark decision struck a blow to the U.S....

by Vismaya V · 3 min read

Aug 16, 2024

Law and Order

$5.1 Billion in Illicit Crypto Transactions Linked to UK Every Year: NCA

A new report from the UK's National Crime Agency has found that as much as $5.1 billion worth of illicit crypto transactions are linked to the country every year, with both digital and crypto related crime on the rise. The agency's findings were published in its annual National Strategic Assessment, which draws on data from law enforcement, government, and private intelligence. “As the popularity of cryptocurrency grows, so too does the frequency of cryptocurrency crime,” the report stated. The...

by Ryan S. Gladwin · 2 min read

Jun 11, 2024

Law and Order

Bitcoin Lightning Network and Layer 2 Scaling Could Be 'Abused by Criminals', Says EU

A new report from the EU has singled out Bitcoin's Lightning Network and other layer 2 solutions as "data obfuscation" technologies that could be "abused by criminals." The First Report on Encryption by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security, a "collaborative network of innovation labs" from across EU member states, argues that alongside technologies including Mimblewimble, zero-knowledge (zk) proofs, coin mixers and privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash, "layer 2 solutions such as the lig...

by Stephen Graves · 2 min read

May 3, 2024

Coins

'Clock is Ticking' on Bitcoin Privacy: Edward Snowden

CIA whistleblower turned international fugitive Edward Snowden has issued a "final warning" on Bitcoin privacy, amid a U.S. crackdown on crypto privacy projects. In a tweet, Snowden said that, "I've been warning Bitcoin developers for ten years that privacy needs to be provided for at the protocol level," adding that, "This is the final warning. The clock is ticking." He was responding to a post by crypto privacy project Wasabi Wallet, announcing that it has suspended its services for U.S. users...

by Stephen Graves · 4 min read

Jan 4, 2024

Business

Privacy Coins Monero, Zcash, Horizen 'At Risk' of Delisting by Binance

Crypto exchange Binance has added a "monitoring tag" to a list of cryptocurrencies including privacy coins Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Firo (FIRO). In an announcement, Binance said that tokens with the monitoring tag "exhibit notably higher volatility and risks compared to other listed tokens," and are "at risk of no longer meeting our listing criteria" and being delisted from the exchange. It added that tokens with the monitoring tag are subject to regular reviews. Criteria con...

by Stephen Graves · 4 min read

Sep 23, 2022

Business

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin 'Very Hopeful' Dogecoin Moves to Proof of Stake

Now that the Ethereum merge is complete, Vitalik Buterin thinks other blockchains like Dogecoin and Zcash should follow suit. “As proof of stake matures, I expect it to just increase in legitimacy more and more over time,” Vitalik said over video chat at the Messari Mainnet conference on Friday. “I hope that Zcash moves over. I am also very hopeful that Dogecoin is going to evolve over to proof of stake at some point soon,” he added. Earlier this month, Ethereum executed its long-awaited merg...

by Kate Irwin · 2 min read

Jun 1, 2022

Coins

Zcash Nixes Trusted Setup, Enters New Era With Major Network Update

The Electric Coin Company (ECC) announced today in a blog post the launch of the first major upgrade to the Zcash privacy coin network since November 2020, Zcash Network Upgrade 5 (NU5). Zcash Network Upgrade 5 is live on mainnet. For my perspective on what this is and why it is historically important, see this thread: https://t.co/4wnZR5PXnE pic.twitter.com/5VcrZO2cTh — zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓 (@zooko) May 31, 2022 NU5 includes the Orchard shielded payment protocol, which the company says will remove...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Apr 27, 2022

Technology

Edward Snowden Helped Create Zcash Privacy Coin

Edward Snowden, the famed National Security Agency whistleblower, helped launch Zcash in 2016, a representative of the Zcash inventors Electric Coin Company told Decrypt. Snowden joined Zcash creator Zooko Wilcox, Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd, Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh and two others in launching the Zcash blockchain. In a process known as "trusted setup," the six participants each received a sliver of the private key needed to create the cryptocurrency. Previously, the identity o...

by Jeff Benson · 2 min read

Apr 26, 2022

Technology

Decentralized Twitter Project Bluesky Says It's Unaffected by Elon Musk Purchase

Back in late 2019, when Jack Dorsey was still CEO of Twitter, he set in motion a plan to "develop an open and decentralized standard for social media" that would explore elements of crypto and Web3. That effort, which came to be called "bluesky," gained steam in 2021 with a January "ecosystem review" of decentralized social apps and the August appointment of Zcash veteran developer Jay Graber as its lead. Today, bluesky took to Twitter—the platform soon to be privately owned by mega-billionaire...

by Jeff Benson · 2 min read

Mar 9, 2022

Business

Privacy Coins Monero, Zcash Lead Crypto Market Rebound

Top privacy coins like Monero and Zcash are surging in price today, with several of them posting overnight gains of 10 to 20%. The largest privacy coin Monero, which has a market capitalization of over $3.5 billion, shot up 18.8% in the last 24 hours and trades for around $195.43. Despite the rise, that’s still about 64% short of its former all-time high of $517, set back in May 2021, according to CoinMarketCap. Zcash is up 17.6% today and trades for $131.87 at the time of writing. Like Monero,...

by Tim Hakki · 3 min read

Nov 20, 2021

Coins

Zcash Price Jumps 29% After Devs Announce Shift to Proof-of-Stake

Yesterday, Electric Coin Company, the organization behind privacy coin Zcash, outlined its official roadmap for the next three years. Within hours, the price of Zcash rallied from $147 to $189, an increase of 28.6%. The privacy-focused organization said in a blog post that it’ll release an official ECC wallet in 2022, before moving Zcash from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to the more environmentally friendly proof-of-stake model within the next three years. Electric Coin Company says it w...

by Tim Hakki · 3 min read

Oct 27, 2021

Technology

Privacy Blockchain Putting Up $100 Million to Compete With Zcash and Monero

You likely haven't heard of Findora, a privacy-centric blockchain that "makes it possible for users to share information without showing it." But if its strategy pays off, the under-the-radar blockchain being developed by Discreet Labs could be in competition with well-known privacy coins Zcash and Monero. Today, it announced a $100 million ecosystem fund to be used for research, development of new applications, infrastructure such as staking, and liquidity. The money, to be deployed over the n...

by Jeff Benson · 3 min read

Aug 16, 2021

Technology

Twitter Names Former Zcash Dev to Head Decentralized Social Network Bluesky

Twitter has tapped former Zcash core developer Jay Graber to lead Bluesky, a project CEO Jack Dorsey has said will "develop an open and decentralized standard for social media." Dorsey welcomed Graber to the role this morning via his centralized social network, Twitter. Graber authored an ecosystem review for the product in January that included contributions from members of Protocol Labs who work on the InterPlanerary File System and Filecoin Network, among others. In addition to IPFS and oth...

by Jeff Benson · 2 min read

Aug 3, 2021

Coins

Zcash Creator Wants ZEC to Be Less Like Bitcoin, More Like Ethereum

Proof of stake (PoS), a consensus protocol that uses deposited crypto to secure a blockchain, is becoming more in vogue. Two projects from Ethereum co-founders—Polkadot and Cardano—use it, Ethereum rival Solana says it gives the project super speeds, and Ethereum is months away from its own transition to PoS. Zcash, a prominent privacy coin with a market cap of $1.2 billion, may join it. "While there are many people who prefer PoW, I believe that PoS would make ZEC more valuable to more people!...

by Jeff Benson · 3 min read

May 31, 2021

The Landscape

What Are Privacy Coins? Monero, Zcash, and Dash Explained

The pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin addresses enables transactions without identifying personal information, but that doesn’t make it a completely anonymous cryptocurrency. Because the entire transaction history lives in public view on a blockchain, it can be possible for investigators and firms to piece together people's identities based on the movement of coins and details held within addresses. That’s where so-called privacy coins come in. Cryptocurrencies like Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and D...

by Andrew Hayward · 7 min read

Jan 1, 2021

Markets

Privacy Coins Drop 10% After Bittrex Announcement

Prices of the popular privacy coins went into freefall after Bittrex’s announced today that it will delist Monero, Dash and Zcash later this month. As Decrypt reported earlier today, the exchange announced that it will delist Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and Zcash (ZEC) on January 15, 2021, at 23:00 UTC. The sudden announcement sent the prices of these privacy coins into a downward spiral. Since the announcement by Bittrex, the price of XMR is down by 12.4%, ZEC is down 9.5% and DASH is down 8.7...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read