Zcash keeps grinding higher against bitcoin on the weekly chart after its Ironwood upgrade went live on July 28. It is up 12.7% over 30 days, and over 1 million ZEC have already migrated into the new pool. x.com
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Holders are rotating from bitcoin into Zcash, and the shift is still early. Per @jeremiahrogers, bitcoin holders who swapped into ZEC through NEAR intents now hold 468,606 ZEC, 2.92% of the network, worth $736M, versus $200.4M had they stayed in bitcoin. x.com
Zcash's cooling social attention points to a multi-week bottoming process nearing its end. The Rollup counts 4,100 weekly ZEC mentions from accounts with over 1,000 followers, down 42% in a week and 68% from the peak of 12,800. x.com
Zcash's price is running ahead of its usage, so this rally is not one to buy yet. ZEC is becoming the privacy coin Wall Street can buy, as Grayscale works to turn its trust holding 2.3% of supply into an NYSE-listed ETF, and Flexa and CrossPay add spending options. But after a 68% weekly jump to about $14B, nearly twice Monero, the ETF is not live, the 200K ZEC contribution has not happened and fees were about $2K in a day. A live ETF, real inflows and a held pullback would change the view. … Show more
Zcash's latest development is probably bullish, since Bitcoin maximalists are scared of Zcash. x.com
Zcash will rip now that the Winklevoss twins have filed for a spot Zcash ETF under the ticker WINK; the same twins filed the first bitcoin ETF in 2013, when bitcoin was around $100. Zcash is holding near $1,300 while everything else bleeds. x.com
Zcash is a higher-risk store of value because bugs in its proof system have made undetectable counterfeiting possible. Those bugs have been exploited twice, and nobody can verify whether counterfeit ZEC was created. Litecoin's MWEB privacy layer had a validation bug exploited to mint 85,000 counterfeit LTC, showing privacy-focused monetary systems can introduce real security and supply risks. Their privacy can still make them useful for moving funds quickly and privately. x.com
Zcash is showing privacy coins are far from dead, posting one of the strongest runs in crypto while an ETF buys up a meaningful chunk of the supply. x.com
Zcash is the primary momentum trade as its activity expands through NEAR Intents: CoinDesk reports daily Zcash volume routed through Intents increased sixfold. That routing growth is the fundamental receipt, and the setup holds while Zcash activity keeps expanding through Intents. x.com
Zcash is hot because shills realized a year ago it has the perfect setup for them to size in, control the narrative and pump it. That setup combines a sweet-spot market cap, centralized-exchange integrations, a long dormant history and a simple 'bitcoin but private' thesis. x.com
Zcash is being bought heavily by institutions, and $5,000-10,000 per ZEC could come fast at this pace. It just broke above $1,400, about 70 times its 2024 low near $20, after a selloff to $250 roughly six months ago. x.com x.com