Tagged: zcash

October 21, 2026 @ 2:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers are advancing a targeted privacy enhancement to shield ZEC swap activity from potential future quantum computing risks. The team behind Zakura, a full-node implementation of the Zcash network, has detailed an approach that assigns a unique incoming viewing key to every publicly exposed… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 9:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin has remained range-bound in the low-to-mid $82,000s to $83,000s into mid-October 2026, trading with limited directional conviction after failing to deliver the stronger seasonal advances historically associated with the month. Daily closes have clustered near these levels following a brief dip toward the low… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin has spent recent sessions trading in a relatively tight band between roughly $82,000 and $83,000, a range that has left many crypto industyr participants underwhelmed. October has historically delivered some of the strongest average returns for the asset, earning the informal label “Uptober,” yet… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano’s (ADA) recent stretch has mixed technical progress with public friction. Founder Charles Hoskinson has argued that the privacy-focused Midnight network could eventually surpass Zcash, pressed Gemini (NASDAQ: GEMI) to list ADA again, and pushed back against critics who say years of building haven’t translated into stronger token performance. At… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale is treating the climb of its Zcash fund past $1 billion in assets as a sign that listed crypto products are entering a more selective phase, one no longer defined only by bitcoin and ether. The firm said as much when it marked the… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’s newly formed asset management vehicle has asked US regulators for permission to list a fund that would hold the privacy coin Zcash outright, proposing a sponsor charge far below the fee already collected by the only live US product of its… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash has moved Network Upgrade 7 onto public testnet, putting the privacy chain’s next consensus change under live conditions ahead of a November 2026 mainnet target. The Zcash Foundation shipped Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for NU7, on October 2, 2026. That build is… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A privacy-focused cryptocurrency project has moved from informal education in the capital to a formal lobbying presence. Pretty Good Policy for Zcash, or PGPZ, registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act with an effective date of October 1, 2026, naming executive director Divij Pandya as its… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 8:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale has submitted paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a new exchange-traded fund designed to generate recurring cash distributions tied to Zcash without holding the privacy-focused cryptocurrency itself. The proposed product, called The ZCSH High Income ETF, was filed on September… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers have locked in a working timetable for Network Upgrade 7, aiming to cut confirmation waits so shielded transfers can move more quickly without changing the coin’s privacy model. On September 17, Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe posted that every major builder group had reached… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) price has cooled somewhat after a sharp September advance, slipping from a year-to-date peak near $1,590 to about $1,430. Buyers defended the area above $1,440, so the move looked more like a pause after a multi-day rally than a full reversal. Even after… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has announced plans for a three-for-one forward share split of its Zcash exchange-traded fund, a move intended to lower the trading price of each share while leaving the overall value of any investor’s position unchanged. The product, which trades on NYSE Arca under… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) led Thursday’s cryptocurrency rebound after US policymakers delivered their first rate increase since 2023, a move that markets largely treated as already expected rather than a shock. The privacy token advanced roughly 23 percent over 24 hours and traded near $1,369. Bitcoin rose… Read More

September 6, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, recently reduced the crypto market to three themes he thinks investors should own for years: Bitcoin as a hedge against currency debasement, Zcash as a privacy asset, and a long tokenization cycle involving Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap… Read More

September 5, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash’s (ZEC) token has crossed a threshold that had remained out of reach for nearly a decade of regular trading. On Friday, ZEC traded above $1,000 and printed an intraday high near $1,023, a milestone that excludes only the chaotic first sessions after the coin… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Confidential Zcash payments have long carried a noticeable pause before they even leave a wallet. That wait may soon shrink from more than three seconds to well under 200 milliseconds in many cases, after the team behind the Zakura full node released Zakura Common, an… Read More

August 24, 2026 @ 12:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments has taken another significant step toward offering the first US spot exchange-traded fund focused on Zcash, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency. On August 21, 2026, the firm submitted Amendment No. 5 to its Form S-3 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),… Read More

July 29, 2026 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Privacy-focused Zcash has activated its Ironwood network upgrade, introducing a new shielded pool in response to a soundness flaw previously identified in the Orchard protocol. The upgrade, formally designated NU6.3, went live on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. It establishes a fresh shielded… Read More

July 8, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The price of decentralized privacy focused protocol Zcash’s native token, ZEC, climbed roughly 12% in recent sessions amid growing optimism that the project is close to delivering a rigorous mathematical safeguard for its shielded transaction system. This progress centers on formal verification efforts for the… Read More