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Zcash (ZEC) is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable optional shielded transactions.
Fortitude Mining sold 5,790 borrowed ZEC for about $8.3 million to fund its Zcash mining expansion. Repayment is in dollars, so no buyback is due, and its 9,000 rigs would add about 25% to network hash rate at nameplate.
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Zcash fell 11% in 24 hours to an $18.5 billion market cap, per Decrypt data, after a 460% run from its March lows. Liquidated longs came to $17.9 million, under 1% of the roughly $2.3 billion lost, so leverage alone cannot account for the fall.
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Bitcoin traded around $83,450 in the European morning as economists forecast US CPI inflation of 3.6%, up from 3.4%. CoinDesk reported open interest in bitcoin is down 3.5% as positions are closed ahead of the print.
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Ripple paid Veria Labs the $250,000 program maximum for an XRP Ledger bug that could have minted about 18.45 trillion XRP. ZachXBT called the sum too small and warned it could tempt the next finder to exploit instead of report.
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Net outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs reached $681 million last week, according to SoSoValue, their highest since June. Small tokens rallied through it, and CoinDesk research says their order books are still thinning.
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Zakura, a Zcash full-node builder, expects opcodes for hash-based signatures on transparent payments to land in Zcash in January. No date has been confirmed for switching them on across the network, so January is when the code arrives and the protection date is still open.
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Alloc Init researchers designed a Zcash-style Bitcoin privacy layer that needs no soft fork and uses about four times a normal payment's on-chain footprint. It would hide a desk's amounts and counterparties while timing stays public, and it exists only on paper.
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Zcash developers aim to add quantum-resistant, hash-based signatures in January for transparent payments, which hold about 70% of issued ZEC. Shielded funds, the remaining three in 10 coins, wait for separate safeguards.
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Grayscale's Zcash fund passed $1 billion in assets within a month of listing, though only about $200 million of that is cash from outside investors. Most of the rest is coins carried over from its 2017 trust and a ZEC price that roughly doubled after trading began.
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Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a spot Zcash ETF with a 0.25% sponsor fee, a tenth of the 2.50% Grayscale charges on its $751 million fund. Grayscale's recent withdrawals came before the filing and tracked a 21% fall in ZEC, so the fee gap has not yet been tested.
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Zcash's NU7 upgrade, live on testnet since Oct. 4, will leave ZEC in the legacy Sprout pool unspendable if it reaches mainnet on its Nov. 5 target. Holders' real cutoff is a block height that developers plan to set at an Oct. 20 review.
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Bitcoin miners cut their reserves from 1.9 million BTC at the end of 2025 to about 1.19 million, near all-time lows, Cryptopolitan reported. Some of the selling is tied to AI data-center builds, and miners' shares are now sliding back from their summer peaks.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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Zcash rose 3% and Monero 2.14% over 24 hours to lead the largest coins, while Bitcoin gained 0.59%. The $30.25 million that left Grayscale's Zcash ETF on Sept. 30 equals about 0.13% of Zcash's $23.18 billion market value.
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US spot Ethereum ETFs drew net inflows on Oct. 5 while Bitcoin and Solana funds lost money, against a week in which Bitcoin took $241.09 million. Ethereum funds still lost $138.02 million that week, and one day of buying needs a weekly print behind it to count as a trend.
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Pretty Good Policy for Zcash has registered Divij Pandya as its sole Washington lobbyist on a $750,000 first-year budget. The move takes Zcash's policy work out of developer lab ZODL and puts it in a separate group that looks to Zcash Community Grants for its money.
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BlackRock's IBIT took in $450 million last week while all US spot bitcoin ETFs together netted $241 million, about 90% less than the week before. That keeps a three-week inflow streak alive on one fund's buyers heading into October.
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Grayscale's ZCSH, the first US spot Zcash ETF, lost $93.56 million to outflows in one week, leaving $212.56 million of net inflows since its August launch. Its assets fell further, to about $751 million from a September peak as high as $979 million, with ZEC's price accounting for much of the drop.
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Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.
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Zcash's NU7 upgrade goes to testnet on Oct. 6, cutting target block time from 75 to 25 seconds with daily ZEC issuance held roughly flat. Nothing changes this month on the chain carrying real ZEC, so the token's October price trades on a test result and a scheduling call.
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