Shielded transaction share reached 59.3% in February 2026, up from 30% a year prior, with the 2026 average at 40.2%.

Alleged to be operating with fractional reserves on Hyperliquid exchange.

Releases the most private vote ever, which uses the Cosmos SDK underneath.

Reached a price of $380.

Ranks 4th in global perpetual futures 24-hour volume at $2.47B, behind BTC, ETH, and SOL.

Remains listed on Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken despite widespread privacy coin delistings affecting competitors.

Peer launches direct fiat-to-Zcash onramp without KYC or intermediaries.

Climbed over 70% through April 9, 2026, surging 26.7% to $321 on April 8 with $685M volume, then rallied 20% on April 10 amid trader rotation.

Reached all-time high Wrapped ZEC supply on Solana of 135,000 tokens, becoming the largest share across all chains, surpassing Binance Chain.

Hold 5M+ ZEC in shielded pools, representing over 30% of total supply, increasing since October upgrade and growing in Q1 2026.

Led top movers with a 3% gain on April 6, 2026.

Enables smart contract functionality through integration with Midnight, allowing smart contracts to be deployed on top of the privacy-focused network.

Supported as a native quote asset on PigeonHouse token launchpad, enabling bonding curve trading pairs denominated directly in ZEC without wrappers or bridges.

Reached top 20 crypto assets by market cap as of 2026, ranking alongside BTC, ETH, XRP, and others.

Filed an ETF application.

Launched a Zcash Mastercard in collaboration with Gemini.

Trading volume increased 79% month-over-month as of April 1, 2026, and runs 111% above its daily average as of April 8, 2026.

Suffered a supply chain attack via compromised npm package (Axios), causing over half of nodes to send ZEC to an attacker address and unshield coins.

Integrated with Core DAO's Z Protocol, an EVM-compatible Layer 1, as a proof-of-work engine for the Satoshi Plus architecture, allowing miners to dedicate hash rate to secure Z Protocol at zero cost and holders to earn self-custodial staking rewards.

Integrated with Mute swap for privacy-focused DeFi pools alongside Monero as part of Mute's Q2 2026 roadmap featuring privacy widgets and tools for AI agents.

Integrated with Keystone Wallet and Zodl app to enable hardware wallet support for shielded Zcash transactions.

Increased fees 80% in Q1 2026, climbing to rank #2 among all protocols, generating more fees than Solana.

Co-created the cryptographic foundations that underpin Starknet's STRK20 privacy standard through Ben-Sasson's work.

Grayscale analyst predicts Zcash market share to 5% (from 0.3%), from ~$4B market cap, citing privacy advantage and Bitcoin quantum risk concerns.

Hashrate reached a new all-time high this week.

A whale holds a short position of 4,194 ZEC valued at $1.02M.

Integrated with RocketX exchange for private transfers, swaps, and bridges, alongside Monero, with no on-chain footprint.

ZEC perpetuals with 10x leverage became available for trading on Phoenix.

Listed on Backpack for spot, collateral, and perpetuals trading, and enabled USD fiat on-ramp and off-ramp, on 2026-03-17.

Launched CipherPay, a non-custodial, open-source private payment infrastructure that enables merchants to accept ZEC on stores, sites, and apps without collecting buyer data.

Rallied 20% on March 16, 2026, on HTX Global following Cypherpunk's 2025 financial report publication.

Increased 16% to $268 on March 17, 2026, outperformed Bitcoin by 44.7% over 7 days, with $666M 7-day trading volume and $4.46B market capitalization.

Upgraded Zodl wallet to version 3.1.0, enhancing UX, swaps, and crosspayments.

Included in HTX futures trading contest with $20,000 prize pool, ending March 31, 2026, and listed among top gainers on that date.

Increased from $218 to $740 in Q4 2025, representing a 3x price appreciation.

Launched bug bounty program; white-hat researcher discovered Sprout pool bug, fixed by ZODL and Shielded Labs, funds safe, with Sprout pool finality advancing to token holder vote.

Foundry Digital launched Foundry Zcash Pool on April 13, 2026, with institutional miners onboarded, capturing 30% of network hashrate in its first month.

Has three core development teams: Shielded Labs, Electric Coin Company, and ZODL, all currently well-funded and working on protocol and ecosystem development.

Coinholder-Directed Grants funded ZK Email in Halo2 and ZChat, boosting price over 7%.

Zodl (formerly Zashi) completed a Series A funding round from investors focused on crypto and privacy.

Integrated with Freysa's Silo as payment layer for private AI platform; Z Protocol utilizes shielded pool for AI agent privacy.

Raised $25M seed funding March 10, 2026, led by Coinbase Ventures and a16z. Implements quantum recoverable capabilities for Orchard protocol, advancing post-quantum readiness, and eliminates denial-of-service vector through protocol upgrade in 2026.

Price increased 5% to $205.

Accepts shielded Zcash transactions as a payment method for Iron Mail privacy email service launching in Q3 2026.

Generated $17M in spot DEX volume from bridged tokens on Solana during the week ending March 6, 2026.

Uses zk-SNARKs for optional privacy, concealing sender, receiver, and transaction amounts.

Experienced $187M in whale inflow over a 24-hour period on March 5, 2026.

Plans Zcash native swaps on Thorchain by end of April 2026, building on V3.16.0 integration for Solana and Polygon.

Reached 624 million total social engagements with 4 million in the last 24 hours as of March 4, 2026.

Social dominance increased 179% in the week ending March 4, 2026.

AltRank reached #3 across all cryptocurrencies on March 4, 2026.

Launches Tachyon mainnet by end of 2026 with 2,200 TPS throughput, reduced block times, sub-second private mobile transactions, and quantum recovery features. Removes shielded sync throttle limiting throughput to 2.92 TPS in 2026 and launches incentivized testnets for Zcash Crosslink.

Identified as a top gainer among crypto assets on March 4, 2026.

Hudson Jameson, who previously held a role at Zcash, has left to join CertiK as Head of Ecosystem.

Signal (smart engagement) for Zcash fell 80% during the week of the Iran/US conflict despite theoretical relevance to sanctions evasion and capital flight scenarios, with no spike observed during the geopolitical event.

Integrated shielded transactions with full MPC signing support in Vultisig wallet using a custom FROST MPC library called FROZT, with support for seed phrase import, keygen, reshare, and keysign operations.

Split into two independent organizations: the Bootstrap Board and Zcash Open Development Labs (ZODL).

Integrates Zcash for shielded ZEC micropayments and privacy in the creator economy via TIPZ, leveraging zodl_app and near_intents with features including creator dashboards, tipping stamps, encrypted messaging, and sovereign leaderboards.

Achieved a +700% price increase from September 2025 lows as of Q4 2025.

Integrated ZEC swaps into Unstoppable Swap bot, enabling cross-chain ZEC swaps directly from Telegram without logs.

Arthur Hayes holds ZEC.

Processed 4,650 transactions in a 24-hour period.

Ranked 5th among privacy coin projects by development activity according to Santiment's GitHub activity methodology.

Participated in a fireside chat at ETHDenver discussing onchain governance with anonymous voting.

Integrated into Maya Protocol's DeFi ecosystem for native ZEC access to DeFi. Maya Protocol submitted retroactive funding proposal for privacy infrastructure work; ZEC holders to vote on dev reward distribution in Q1 2026.

Reached record shielded ZEC holdings of 5.1M ZEC (31% of total fixed supply), up 400% since ZODL wallet launched, with shielded transactions also reaching a new all-time high.

Market cap is approximately 0.35% of Bitcoin's market cap as of February 2026.

Ranked #3 among BSC and Binance Chain projects by development activity.

Representatives attended Monerotopia conference in Mexico City alongside teams from Monero, Zano, Edge Wallet, Cake Wallet, and others, participating in cross-chain privacy ecosystem discussions.

Grayscale and Bitwise ETF filings awaiting SEC approval in 2026.

Market cap reached all-time high of $10 billion.

Rebrands Zashi wallet to Zodl, Zcash Open Development Lab, with no changes to user funds, seed phrases, or wallet functionality.

Introduced CashZ wallet.

Collaboration established with developers from another privacy coin project for technical implementation work.

Featured on Tucker Carlson's show with Arcium cofounder, reaching 2 million views, discussing privacy topics including Bitcoin, Tornado Cash, and encrypted computing.

Shielded Labs is developing the Network Sustainability Mechanism, which allows ZEC to be burned and reintroduced as future block rewards following an exponential decay schedule.

Shielded 22,000 ZEC (valued at approximately $5 million) in a single transaction.

Integrated with Unstoppable wallet version 0.47 for Android, adding privacy support upgrades and cross-DEX rate comparison.

Operates at roughly 3 TPS for shielded transactions.

Launches version 2.0 with native smart account support (co-signers, session keys, multisig); targets Tachyon upgrade mainnet by end of 2026, reducing shielded transaction size from 10 KB to 200-500 bytes, and full quantum-resistant cryptography by 2028.

Reached 96% sentiment score as of March 4, 2026, a near 52-week high and highest among major cryptocurrencies.

Remained stable during February 2026 crash with user base stable despite market liquidations exceeding $2.5B. Identified as a top gainer among cryptocurrencies on February 10, 2026.

Reached more than 30% of circulating supply, up from 11% a year ago.

Received endorsement from investor Naval Ravikant, who characterized the project as "the new reverse Turing test" during a period when he promoted privacy coins including Zcash.

Listed on Binance with ZEC/USD1 trading pair as part of the USD1 Points Program running through the end of February 2026.

Gemini launched a credit card that pays rewards in ZEC.

Integrated with Hyperliquid exchange following delistings from centralized exchanges.

Integrated with Maya Protocol for native cross-chain and shielded swaps, supporting memos larger than 500 bytes and end-to-end privacy. Enabled native swaps directly to and from shielded ZEC addresses, achieving $13M swap volume with $2M pool depth on Maya Protocol's ZEC pool.

Co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson appeared on Galaxy Brains podcast to discuss zero-knowledge technology, blockchain scalability, and post-quantum readiness.

Token holders voted to prioritize scaling to billions of users and achieving post-quantum safety; voting mechanism requires ZEC in shielded wallets with a deadline of 2026-01-25.

India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) issued a directive on January 22-23, 2026 requiring all registered cryptocurrency exchanges to halt deposits, withdrawals, and trading of Zcash, citing AML compliance concerns and the difficulty of tracing shielded transactions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Integrated with Keystone Wallet's Multi-coin firmware, enabling users to send, receive, and swap transparent ZEC directly via the Nexus app.

Received $1.2M donation in ZEC from Winklevoss twins to support independent development.

Transitioning infrastructure from ZcashD to Zebra as ZcashD will be deprecated, with validators able to run either daemon during migration to ensure no service interruption.

Launched Zashi 2.0 wallet in Q1 2026.

PoS testnet progresses in Q1 2026

Governance reset occurs in Q1 2026.

Launched Ztarknet devnet in Q1 2026

Cake Wallet added support for Zcash.

Brave Wallet added support for Zcash.