Zcash Breaks Records: The Wave of Privacy Coins is Truly Here

Recently, ZEC's performance has been quite impressive - rising over 50% in a week, heading straight for the historical high of 390 dollars, with its market capitalization soaring to 6.2 billion dollars, even surpassing Monero to become the top Privacy Coin.

The core driver of this rise:

1. Institutional Entry — Grayscale has launched a Zcash trust product, providing a compliant channel for large funds. This signal is quite critical, indicating that Wall Street is beginning to take Privacy Coins seriously.

2. Technical Breakthrough — ZEC has successfully broken through a years-long downtrend, forming a bottom breakout. On-chain data shows a significant increase in Google search popularity, and retail FOMO sentiment is evident.

3. Halving Expectations — ZEC is set to experience its third halving in November 2025, with miner rewards decreasing from 3.125 to 1.5625, which has historically always been a catalyst for price.

Why can ZEC stand out?

With zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology, users can freely choose transparent or privacy transactions—this flexibility is more easily accepted by institutions compared to Monero's enforced privacy. Coupled with endorsements from MIT and Johns Hopkins University, and Edward Snowden's participation in the initialization ceremony, this narrative is solid.

But don't get too excited: The EU and South Korea have a strong stance against Privacy Coins, and some exchanges have delisted them. Market trends change quickly, and regulatory pressure may come at any time.

Has the spring of the Privacy Coin sector arrived? At least this time ZEC's performance indicates that as people become increasingly concerned about data privacy and central bank digital currencies, this type of asset is moving from niche to mainstream.