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$0.02077114

-4.27%

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zec

$22.97

-1.871%

Oct 28th, 2016

Proof of Work (PoW)

Zero Knowledge (ZK)

Privacy Coins

24-Hour Range

$22.36

$23.46

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Market Cap (Mcap)

Rank

#217

Mcap

$344.39M

Fully Diluted Mcap

$482.44M

Supply

Circulating

14,990,781

Total

21,000,000

Created On

Oct 28th, 2016

All Time High (ATH)

ATH

$3.19k

ATH Change

-99.28%

ATH Date

Oct 29th, 2016

Total Value Locked (TVL)

TVL

N/A

MCap to TVL Ratio

N/A

FDV to TVL Ratio

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Zcash News

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

Jan 1, 2021

Coins

Bittrex To Delist Privacy Coins Monero, ZCash and Dash in Two Weeks

Crypto exchange Bittrex today announced that it will delist privacy coins Monero (XMR), ZCash and Dash on Friday, January 15, at 23:00 UTC. #Bittrex Customers: The $XMR, $ZEC, and $DASH markets will be removed on Friday, January 15th at 23:00 UTC. Details: https://t.co/8qAdjuwryJ — Bittrex (@BittrexExchange) January 1, 2021 The Bermuda-registered exchange did not provide a reason for the delistings, but all three are privacy coins—a class of cryptocurrencies that offer untraceable transact...

by Decrypt Staff · 1 min read

Nov 30, 2020

Technology

Tezos Will Get Zcash’s Privacy Features in Next Upgrade

Tezos developers Nomadic Labs, Marigold, and Metastate have revealed several proposals for the next upgrade, dubbed “Edo,” that will introduce new privacy features to the blockchain—alongside a slew of other improvements, according to an announcement published today. “No other major smart contract platform to this date supports this functionality but, because Tezos can be amended, it was possible for us to add this exciting new feature directly to Tezos itself,” the release explained. This come...

by Liam Frost · 2 min read

Nov 18, 2020

Coins

Privacy Coin Zcash Goes Through First Halving

The Zcash (ZEC) blockchain has undergone its first halving today, reducing the block rewards for miners from 6.25 ZEC ($391) to 3.125 ZEC ($196). Just like with Bitcoin’s halving, the Zcash blockchain is programmed to reduce miners’ rewards by half roughly every four years. This is done to prevent potential inflation caused by an overabundance of coins and retain (or perhaps increase) the crypto’s value. Coinciding with the first halving, the developers of Zcash also deployed the fifth major ne...

by Liam Frost · 2 min read

Nov 10, 2020

Coins

ShapeShift Confirms Regulatory Risk Led to Privacy Coin Delistings

Crypto trading platform ShapeShift delisted privacy coins Monero, Dash, and Zcash to limit the company’s regulatory risk, according to ShapeShift. “We delisted all those coins at the same time, for the same reason,” ShapeShift Chief Legal Officer Veronica McGregor told Decrypt. “We are de-risking the company from a regulatory standpoint, so, for now, we are not working with those coins. We may revisit the situation in the future.” IRS Dishes Out $1.25 Million for Data Firms to Crack Monero CoinD...

by Jeff Benson · 2 min read

Oct 22, 2020

Technology

Wrapped Zcash is Coming to Ethereum’s DeFi Ecosystem

Privacy-focused Zcash (ZEC) will be the first coin supported by Wrapped—a cross-chain bridge that allows for bringing various cryptos onto the Ethereum blockchain, Tokensoft and Anchorage jointly announced on Wednesday. We're proud to support the launch of https://t.co/HNroVZlw9J, a collaboration with @Anchorage and @cmsholdings. A partnership designed to provide access to layer one protocols, more about the partnership here: https://t.co/NAOt4w03pW — Tokensoft Inc. (@TokensoftInc) October 21,...

by Liam Frost · 2 min read

Sep 29, 2020

Technology

Gemini Moves to Embrace Zcash’s Full Privacy Potential

Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, are very public figures. But the cryptocurrency exchange they founded will soon allow users to keep things a bit more private. Gemini today announced that it will allow shielded Zcash withdrawals on its exchange. Though Zcash (ZEC) is known as a privacy coin, it’s really a Bitcoin fork with optional privacy functions. Users can set up private addresses or transparent addresses. For any transaction between two transparent addresses, users can see the addresses...

by Jeff Benson · 3 min read

Sep 1, 2020

Technology

Crypto Users Apathetic About Privacy: Report

Crypto users are apathetic about privacy when sending money despite having more access to privacy protocols and features, a report released today revealed. According to Coin Metrics' State of the Network report, the idea of anonymity is even at risk of “fading away” unless crypto’s “original privacy-oriented ethos” returns. This comes even as privacy options—such as Mimblewimble, a purportedly super-private protocol behind at least two new privacy coins—continue to emerge. Coin Metrics, a cryp...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Aug 18, 2020

Coins

A five-member board to control $36 million treasury for Zcash

The Zcash Foundation, a public charity devoted to privacy protocol Zcash, will elect new members to its Community Advisory Panel (CAP) to ensure a better community-driven process for the deployment of over 420,000 ZEC ($36 million at press time), according to a release. Five members will be selected based on their understanding of Zcash and its broader token applications, said the Foundation. As per Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox, “the new five-person committee is going to be the largest controller...

by Shaurya Malwa · 2 min read