Zcash just did the impossible.
While Bitcoin crashed… it pumped.
Up 250% in a week. From $35 → $291
How did $ZEC defy gravity? 🧵👇
1/ Early September: $ZEC was forgotten.
Trading near $35, barely moving.
By October 11, it hit $291 (a 250% surge)
Market cap: $4B+.
One of the top-performing coins on the planet.
And this wasn’t luck.
2/ October 10–11 was chaos.
→ $19B wiped from crypto
→ $630M liquidated
→ Trump’s “provocative post” spooked markets
Bitcoin nuked below $60K.
Most alts bled double digits.
$ZEC? Dropped to $150… then rallied back to $291.
3/ While everything else crashed,
Zcash decoupled from the market.
It became a safe haven, the “encrypted Bitcoin.”
Why? Because privacy became the new narrative.
4/ ▶️ Privacy Narrative Revival
As governments tighten surveillance
CBDCs, KYC laws, asset freezes
people are looking for exits.
$ZEC’s zk-SNARK tech offers that:
fully shielded transactions, verifiable but invisible.
Privacy became the meta again.
5/ ▶️ Institutional Adoption
Grayscale launched its Zcash Trust (ZCSH)
a regulated way for funds to buy exposure.
Result: 20% single-day spike.
TradFi’s first step into “compliant privacy.”
Big money found a quiet door.
7/ ▶️ Undervaluation Play
Before the rally, ZEC’s cap was under $700M.
Monero sat at $5B.
Analysts called it “a privacy blue-chip on discount.”
Some even predicted $6K ZEC (a 20x from here.)
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