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⚡ PRIVACY IS LEAVING THE REST OF CRYPTO BEHIND Privacy has become the clear outlier of the crypto market. According to Glassnode, the Privacy sector is up an extraordinary +213% since Bitcoin’s October 6, 2025 high. Over the same period, every other major sector in the comparison remains underwater: DeFi −27% Exchanges −36% Layer 1 −40% AI −42% RWA −57% Memes −62% Layer 2 −63% DePIN −67% Gaming −74% One green bar in a market full of red. Zcash is a major force behind that divergence. ZEC represents a large share of the Privacy index, but according to the underlying analysis, even excluding ZEC the Privacy sector would still be approximately +56% — ahead of every other category shown. And Zcash has another story developing beneath the price. The launch of Grayscale’s ZCSH on NYSE Arca has opened a regulated route to ZEC exposure for US investors, while the amount of ZEC held in shielded pools has climbed to roughly 29% of circulating supply. These are different signals — institutional access on one side, increased use of Zcash’s privacy infrastructure on the other — but both point toward renewed attention on private digital money. For years, privacy was treated as a niche. In 2026, it has become crypto’s strongest-performing sector in this comparison. Source: Glassnode https://glassnode.com/ ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🔐 Shielded Zcash + Ledger: Ironwood Transaction Successfully Demonstrated A major step toward hardware-secured shielded Zcash transactions. Cake Wallet founder Vik Sharma has demonstrated Zcash Ironwood working with Cake Wallet and a Ledger hardware device. In the video, a 0.001 ZEC transaction is prepared inside Cake Wallet and then signed on the connected Ledger device, ending with confirmation that the transaction was successfully signed. This matters because combining shielded ZEC with hardware-wallet signing brings two important features together: Zcash privacy and protection of private keys on dedicated hardware. The demonstration is an important integration milestone, although it should not yet be confused with an official announcement that full shielded Zcash support has been publicly released to all Ledger users. If the integration reaches general release, it could significantly improve the security and usability of shielded ZEC for hardware-wallet users. Source: Vik Sharma (@vikrantnyc) on X ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🎯 Market Sniper Maintains $2,100 Zcash Target Technical analyst Francis Hunt, known as “The Market Sniper,” is sticking with his $2,100 target for Zcash. In a recent interview, Hunt highlighted ZEC’s relative strength during broader crypto-market weakness and argued that its technical structure continues to support his longer-term target. His call comes after Zcash’s powerful rally and move into the crypto market’s Top 10 — but another move toward $2,100 would still represent a substantial advance from current levels. Hunt’s target is based on technical chart analysis, not a guaranteed price prediction. Still, maintaining such an aggressive target after ZEC’s recent performance makes his latest comments worth watching. Source: The Market Sniper / AllInCrypto Podcast ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

ZCASH TO $5,000 — THEN $10,000? 👀 Alliance General Partner Imran Khan has laid out an aggressive long-term roadmap for Zcash — one that sees $ZEC potentially moving far beyond its current levels. Speaking on the Good Game Podcast, Khan said his short-term target for Zcash sits around $3,000–$5,000, potentially by the end of the year. “I think my Zcash target short term is probably like $4K. $3K to $5K.” But his outlook isn't a straight line up. Khan expects a major correction could follow such a move — potentially an 80% drawdown — before Zcash begins another expansion toward a much higher target. His longer-term number: around $10,000 per ZEC. That scenario would represent an extreme cycle of expansion, correction and renewed price discovery. It should be treated as Khan's personal market thesis, not a prediction of what ZEC will necessarily do. With Zcash recently breaking above $1,300, however, targets that once sounded distant are increasingly entering the broader crypto discussion. 🎥 Watch Imran Khan explain his Zcash roadmap in the video above. ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🚀 ZCASH BREAKS $1,300 $ZEC has officially pushed above $1,300, extending an impressive rally with strong momentum. ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🔥 ZCASH IS BECOMING THE TRADE EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Zcash is increasingly finding its way into conversations among crypto traders — and Threadguy just shared an interesting example. Speaking about a recent dinner with other market participants, he said there weren't many compelling trade ideas being discussed — but the enthusiasm around Zcash stood out: “There was insane Zcash shilling, like legendary shilling, at a level I’ve never seen.” His comments highlight a broader shift in market sentiment: traders are increasingly paying attention to privacy, on-chain assets and $ZEC as the narrative continues to gain traction. This isn't a fundamental development for Zcash — but it is another sign of just how much attention ZEC is attracting across the crypto market right now. 🎥 Watch Threadguy’s comments above. ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🛡 ZCASH ISN’T BITCOIN’S SILVER “Zcash isn't the silver to Bitcoin's gold.” Josh Swihart, founder & CEO of Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), makes the case for a different framing: Zcash is Bitcoin built for financial freedom. Not simply an alternative store of value — but private, self-custodial digital money built for a world where financial privacy matters. 🎥 Watch the clip. ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🔒 STEVE JOBS WARNED ABOUT FINANCIAL PRIVACY — IN 1983 More than four decades ago, Steve Jobs was already warning about the privacy implications of electronic financial transactions. Speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, Jobs explained that electronic payments could create a record of a person's whereabouts — revealing far more about our lives than most people realized at the time. 43 years later, that concern feels remarkably relevant. Every transparent blockchain transaction creates a permanent public record. Addresses, balances and transaction histories can potentially be analyzed and connected. This is exactly the problem Zcash was designed to address. 🛡 With shielded transactions and zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash allows transactions to be verified without publicly exposing sensitive financial information. Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's about deciding what you choose to reveal. Source: Steve Jobs — International Design Conference, Aspen, 1983 ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

📢 ZCASH COMMUNITY CHAT IS NOW OPEN! ⚡ Our community group is officially open for discussions and exchange around Zcash ($ZEC) — news, privacy, wallets, trading, tech and everything in between. 💬 Join the conversation, share your thoughts and connect with the Zcash community. 👉 t.me/zcash_community_chat ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🚨 ZCASH ENTERS THE TOP 10 — $ZEC NOW RANKED #9 Zcash has officially climbed to #9 by market capitalization on CoinMarketCap, marking another major milestone for $ZEC. 📊 Zcash Market Update 🥇 CMC Rank: #9 💰 Price: $1,203.51 🏦 Market Cap: $20.36B 📈 24H Change: +5.36% ZEC has now moved ahead of Hyperliquid (HYPE) and entered the global crypto Top 10 — while much of the broader market is trading in the red. From a privacy-focused cryptocurrency to a Top-10 digital asset by market cap, Zcash continues to gain market relevance as attention around financial privacy and shielded transactions grows. Source: CoinMarketCap — September 16, 2026 ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🗳 ZCASH HOLDERS OVERWHELMINGLY BACK FASTER BLOCKS & BITCOIN-STYLE HALVINGS Zcash holders have delivered a clear signal on the direction of the upcoming NU7 network upgrade. Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated in the private coinholder vote — roughly 66% of eligible ZEC at the snapshot. ⚡ 99.9% backed reducing the target block time from 75 to 25 seconds ⛏ 98.9% voted to preserve Zcash’s existing Bitcoin-style halving schedule 📅 96.6% supported delaying NSM reissuance until February 2031 🚀 99.3% backed moving NU7 forward quickly, removing features not implemented by the September 30 deadline The vote itself also showcased Zcash privacy: holders could vote using shielded ZEC, allowing economic weight to be measured without publicly linking individual balances or identities to votes. The results don't automatically activate these changes, but they send a strong signal to developers as NU7 moves toward implementation. Faster blocks. Predictable scarcity. Private governance. 📰 Source: CoinDesk ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🔐 Ledger Is Bringing Zcash Ironwood Support to Hardware Wallets Zcash Labs has announced a new funding agreement with Ledger to bring the latest Zcash Ironwood shielded pool to Ledger hardware devices. Under the agreement, Zcash Labs is committing $80,000 to fund the additional engineering work required to adapt Ledger’s existing Zcash integration from Orchard to Ironwood. Once completed, ZEC holders will be able to self-custody Zcash in the Ironwood pool using their Ledger devices — combining hardware-wallet security with Zcash’s latest shielded infrastructure. The agreement is separate from Grant #152 and specifically covers the additional development work created by the transition to Ironwood. Another important step toward making private ZEC storage more accessible through mainstream hardware wallets. 🔗 Source: Zcash Labs https://x.com/ZcashLabs/status/2099899116654637288 ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🔐 FROM PRIVATE SAVINGS TO PRIVATE LIQUIDITY: ZCASH’S NEXT UX LEAP What happens when private money becomes as easy to spend as it is to hold? In a recent discussion, Mert highlighted an increasingly important part of the Zcash thesis: shielded ZEC can become a private source of liquidity for the wider crypto economy. With wallets such as Zodl and infrastructure powered by NEAR Intents, a user can start with ZEC held privately in a shielded wallet and convert it into supported assets across other networks — without manually navigating exchanges, bridges and multiple transactions. The concept is simple: 🔒 Store privately in Zcash ↓ 🔄 Route and convert across chains ↓ 💳 Receive or spend in the asset and network needed For example, shielded ZEC can serve as the source asset while CrossPay handles conversion and settlement into an asset such as USDC on Solana. That represents an important evolution in Zcash UX. Instead of privacy being something users sacrifice the moment they want to interact with the broader crypto ecosystem, Zcash can increasingly function as the private starting point for that activity. There is an important distinction: assets received on transparent networks remain subject to the transparency of those networks. The breakthrough is that the user's shielded Zcash balance and Zcash address don't need to become publicly exposed simply to initiate the payment flow. This expands the Zcash thesis beyond private savings: Private digital money → usable cross-chain liquidity. And as this infrastructure improves, the difference between holding privately and spending conveniently continues to shrink. 🎥 Watch the interview above. 🔗 Sources: Zodl / NEAR Intents ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

⚡ ZCASH PERPETUAL VOLUME SURGES — ZEC REACHES 18% OF BITCOIN’S VOLUME Zcash is seeing a sharp increase in derivatives trading activity. According to ZECStats data from Hyperliquid, $ZEC recorded approximately $397.6 million in 24-hour perpetual trading volume, compared with roughly $2.2 billion for Bitcoin. That puts ZEC at an impressive 18.1% of BTC’s perpetual volume on the platform — despite the enormous difference in market capitalization. 📈 The bigger story is the acceleration. ZEC perpetual volume has climbed from roughly $38 million in mid-August to around $400 million, representing an increase of more than 1,000% within a month. The surge also coincides with the launch of Grayscale’s Zcash ETF (ZCSH) in late August, bringing additional institutional visibility and liquidity to ZEC. While the ETF cannot be identified as the sole cause of the increase, the timing highlights a broader rise in market participation around Zcash. For ZEC, this is another signal worth watching: liquidity and trading activity are expanding far faster than they were just weeks ago. 📊 Source: ZECStats / #Hyperliquid 📅 September 15, 2026 ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🛡 NU7 RESULTS: WHERE THE ZCASH ECOSYSTEM AGREES — AND WHERE IT DOESN’T The latest NU7 polling results provide a clearer picture of how different parts of the Zcash ecosystem want Network Upgrade 7 to move forward. Across ZCAP, ZecHub DAO, Zcash Engineering Caucus, Zcash Brasil and coinholders, several strong areas of alignment have emerged: ⚡ FASTER BLOCKS There is broad support for reducing Zcash’s block target spacing from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. ZCAP voted 70.4% YES. 🌱 SPROUT / v4 DEPRECATION The groups generally favor disabling legacy v4 transactions with NU7. Among ZCAP members, 48.5% chose immediate deactivation at NU7 activation — the largest option. 🚀 DON’T DELAY NU7 There is also strong support for moving NU7 forward rather than waiting indefinitely for every planned feature. 63.7% of ZCAP voted to ship NU7 as soon as possible and remove features not implemented by the September 30 deadline. But on ZEC monetary policy, a major divide appears. 🪙 HALVINGS vs. SMOOTH ISSUANCE ZCAP was almost evenly split: → Smooth issuance: 42.2% → Preserve halvings: 40.0% Coinholders, however, delivered a dramatically different signal: → 98.9% favored preserving Zcash’s existing halvings. 🔄 NSM REISSUANCE The divergence continues over when ZEC removed from circulation through the Network Sustainability Mechanism should begin returning through future block rewards. ZCAP’s largest group — 49.6% — favored starting as soon as possible. Coinholders overwhelmingly favored waiting until February 2031 — 96.6%. 📊 Around 2.4 million ZEC participated in the coinholder poll, while 135 of 198 ZCAP members participated in the ZCAP vote. The message from NU7 governance is becoming clearer: there is substantial alignment around technical improvements such as faster blocks and moving NU7 forward — but the future of Zcash’s issuance policy remains far more contested. 🔗 Sources: Zcash Foundation / Zcash Community Forum / SIV ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

📢 ZCASH COMMUNITY CHAT IS NOW OPEN! ⚡ Our community group is officially open for discussions and exchange around Zcash ($ZEC) — news, privacy, wallets, trading, tech and everything in between. 💬 Join the conversation, share your thoughts and connect with the Zcash community. 👉 t.me/zcash_community_chat ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🛡 ZCASH EXPANDS ITS EUROPEAN REACH 🇪🇺 Zcash (ZEC) is now available on SwissBorg, bringing the privacy-focused cryptocurrency to another major European crypto platform. SwissBorg has added both ZEC and Litecoin (LTC) following strong user demand. ZEC can now be exchanged through the platform alongside 400+ digital assets and supported fiat currencies. The listing is particularly notable because SwissBorg operates in Europe under the MiCA regulatory framework — showing that Zcash continues to gain accessibility on regulated European platforms despite increasing scrutiny around privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. For Zcash, it’s another step toward broader distribution and easier access for European users. 📌 Source: SwissBorg / U.Today ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

🎯 POLYMARKET TRADERS EYE $1,500 ZEC Sentiment around Zcash is heating up again. A Polymarket market recently showed traders assigning 58% odds to $ZEC reaching $1,500 before the end of 2026 — a sharp rise in market expectations. The market resolves YES if ZEC touches or exceeds $1,500 before year-end. ⚠️ Prediction-market odds are dynamic and reflect trader positioning, not a guaranteed forecast. 🔗 Source: #Polymarket ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash

⚡ Grayscale Research Head: What If Zcash Reached 5% of Bitcoin’s Value? Zcash could theoretically trade around $4,000–$4,500 per ZEC if its network valuation reached roughly 5% of Bitcoin’s, according to an example discussed by Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale. Speaking about the growing importance of financial privacy, Pandl argued that crypto markets still assign a surprisingly low valuation to this use case. 🔐 His thesis: privacy may be undervalued. Zcash combines a Bitcoin-like monetary model with optional shielded transactions powered by zero-knowledge cryptography — allowing users to protect sensitive financial information on-chain. If demand for financial privacy continues to grow, Pandl believes the market could eventually assign significantly more value to networks providing it. Importantly, $4,000–$4,500 is not an official Grayscale price target. It is a hypothetical valuation scenario based on Zcash reaching approximately 5% of Bitcoin’s network value. 📹 Watch the full discussion above. Source: Zach Pandl / Grayscale Research / Cointelegraph ⚡ $ZEC | #Zcash 🔒 Privacy • Freedom • Financial Sovereignty 🔥 @ZecZcash