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Cryptocurrencies like Zcash, Monero, and Zano that use cryptographic techniques to hide sender, receiver, or amount, drawing regulatory scrutiny.
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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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 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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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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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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Zano restarted its privacy chain at block 3,833,000, erasing about a month of history to purge ZANO and fUSD minted through a Gateway Address bug. Legitimate transfers made since the feature went live are voided too, pending a claims process Zano has yet to publish.
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Suspected North Korean hackers have moved $3.8 million of Bitget's $387.5 million into Zcash's shielded pool, about 1% of the haul. About $24 million of stolen ZEC remains in transparent addresses that exchanges and police can still freeze.
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Grayscale's Zcash ETF recorded a $30.25 million net outflow on Sept. 30, leaving cumulative net inflows near $268 million. With ZEC 21% below its late-September peak, the next flow prints will show whether the fund's buyers stay with the coin after its run.
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Wallets tied to the $387.5 million Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool on September 30. The deposit is about 1% of the theft, and across every route tracked so far roughly 13 dollars have gone dark for each dollar frozen.
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Zano may roll back about 24 hours of transactions to contain a flaw in how assets, including its fUSD stablecoin, were issued on its chain. Honest payments from that day would be erased with the bad ones, leaving exchanges to recheck deposits they had counted as settled.
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Maxime Desalle gave back a Zcash grant and published the case against the Dev Fund. Paradigm's Matt Huang defended it, and the only dated decisions in the record belong to the November 5 NU7 upgrade.
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Grayscale will cut ZCSH's NAV per share to a third on Sept. 30. The coin behind the fund went from about $42 a year ago to an intraday $1,521 on Friday, and by one analysis $100 million of the fund's inflow came from a unit of its parent.
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The fund charges 2.5% a year on about $100,000 of day-one assets held with BitGo, four weeks after Grayscale's US Zcash ETF began trading on NYSE Arca. The European money has not shown up yet.
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Zcash's lockbox holds 63,962 coins taken at 12% of every block subsidy, about $95 million when the argument went public. The dollar figure moves with the coin, and the 2028 sunset is what investors are fighting over.
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ZRC-20 needs no consensus change, so the Foundation's denial is a reputational act with no on-chain effect, and it lands while Grayscale's ZCSH ETF has pulled more than $500m into ZEC in two weeks.
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Grayscale's ZCSH holds 596,269 ZEC, roughly 3.52% of circulating supply, after in-kind creations lifted its coin count by 28.4%. Assets nearly tripled over the same weeks, and most of that came from ZEC's price.
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Grayscale's Zach Pandl puts every Zcash miner in the world at about $2 million of revenue a day against Bitcoin's $35 million. The four-times power advantage that implies only reaches Equihash hardware.
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The Z15 Pro earns roughly four times the best Bitcoin rig per megawatt-hour, but Zcash issues about 43,800 coins a month however much electricity arrives, and hashrate is growing faster than the price.
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Invest · August 25, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers