Bitcoin fork Zcash up 380% to $5.8B: Does scarce privacy have legs?

Zcash (ZEC) was little more than a historical footnote for most of the past years. The digital asset was seen as a relic of crypto’s cypherpunk age, forgotten amid the rise of AI tokens, restaking ...

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Bitcoin fork Zcash up 380% to $5.8B: Does scarce privacy have legs?

Source: CryptoSlate

Zcash (ZEC) was little more than a historical footnote for most of the past years. The digital asset was seen as a relic of crypto’s cypherpunk age, forgotten amid the rise of AI tokens, restaking narratives, and layer-2 rollups. Yet, it has become 2025’s most surprising comeback story almost overnight. CryptoSlate data shows Zcash surged […]