Split from one organization into two completely independent organizations both supporting and advancing Zcash.

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.

Maya Protocol submitted a retroactive funding proposal to Zcash for privacy infrastructure work.

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

The shielded pool grew more in 2025 than in the previous eight years combined.

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 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.

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

Introduced CashZ wallet.

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.

Tachyon upgrade targets mainnet deployment by end of 2026, introducing oblivious synchronization, proof aggregation, and reducing shielded transaction size from 10 KB to 200-500 bytes, with full quantum-resistant cryptography by 2028.

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 84% sentiment score during February 2026 market recovery period, representing the highest community belief metric among major cryptocurrencies analyzed.

Shielded pool grew to 30% of total ZEC 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 Ztarknet devnet in Q1 2026

Governance reset occurs in Q1 2026.

Launched Zashi 2.0 wallet in Q1 2026.

PoS testnet progresses in Q1 2026

Cake Wallet added support for Zcash.

Brave Wallet added support for Zcash.

Achieved the highest weekly mindshare growth among all projects at +1.37%, according to getmoni_io metrics.

Attack that had been ongoing is now over.

Treasury officially delisted Tornado Cash from sanctions in March 2025 following a November 2024 federal appeals court ruling that immutable smart contracts are not "property" under sanctions law.

Banned in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), prohibiting trading, promotion, marketing, investment funds, asset management, and derivatives linked to the token, effective immediately as part of an update to the Crypto Token Regulatory Framework.

Reached 395-400 transactions per second (TPS).

Has 541,576 holder addresses.

Long positions represent 85% or more of total leverage on the token.

Electric Coin Company (ECC) staff resigned January 7th, 2026, forming a new company and shifting to a decentralized development model.

Included in HTX's crypto futures trading contest running until 2026-01-06, with a $20,000 prize pool shared among multiple assets.

Reached a price of $523 on January 1st, 2026, compared to $58.11 on January 1st, 2025.

Bitwise filed to launch a crypto ETF that includes ZEC among 11 assets this week.

Ranked 6th by number of unique content creators posting about Zcash across social media in 2025.

Participated in a hackathon track with Mina Protocol focused on elliptic-curve cryptography, with at least one participant creating related content.

Experienced second halving in November 2024, reducing annual inflation to approximately 4%, with expected decline to around 1% by 2028.

Won an honorable mention at the Colosseum cypherpunk hackathon for Lockbox project, which relates to Zcash through the announcement of PACT, a fully recoverable Zcash wallet.

Nominated for "Best In Privacy" award with ceremony scheduled for 2025-12-30.

Listed as a perpetual futures market (ZEC/USD) on GMX with up to 100x leverage, available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Base.

Ranked second among BSC & Binance Chain projects by development activity, moving up from the previous month's ranking.

A developer built Ikki, a new cross-platform desktop wallet for testnet using Tauri, Rust, and Svelte with unified address support and fast sync via lightwalletd.

Appointed a new Community Grants Committee consisting of zerodartz, Artkor, Hanh, Frank Braun, and Vlad Costea to control Dev Fund allocations for the next year.

A blockchain timestamping tool called zOpenTimestamps was developed in Rust, demonstrated by timestamping the Bitcoin whitepaper PDF on Zcash testnet.

Listed perpetual futures trading on Based Terminals and Based Mobile App on December 16, 2025.

DeFi functionality for Zcash comes soon to RHEA platform through NEAR Intents integration.

ZEC goes live on Arkham blockchain analytics platform and receives backlash from the community.

Vitalik Buterin donated to Shielded Labs to support Crosslink, a proposed parallel finality layer aimed at reducing reorg and rollback risks; a podcast features Raoul Pal discussing ZEC.

An SEC roundtable discussion takes place this week with Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox as one of the panelists.

Price drops to under $30 with whale buying $250,000 worth at this level. ZEC was included in UCC heavyweight trading competition alongside ETH and SOL, with the winner achieving 194% ROI on $1.15M+ volume.

ZEC ranks as the #5 top weekly crypto gainer on December 15, 2025 according to CoinMarketCap.

A trader characterizes ZEC as a "scam pump" alongside other tokens, claiming profitable trades from shorting at the top.

A 10-minute presentation about Zcash takes place at the SEC in Washington DC. ZEC gained 772% over the last 90 days, ranking as the top performer among the top 100 tokens.

Near Protocol integration mentioned as part of a "privacy trinity" combining Zcash, Near, and Starknet, with Near providing convenient entry and exit points for privacy transactions.

Technical trader now targets downside for ZEC/USD below $443 after bullish setup failed.

Technical analysis shows all price action over 441.5 is bullish, with a trader confirming they took the trade.

ZEC bridges to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Starknet through a unified cross-chain layer connecting four blockchain communities.

A trader reports profitable short positions on ZEC, while bearish price predictions circulate forecasting $0 by 2026.

Unusual concentrated whale activity detected on Binance spot market with repeated $1M/second trades from a single actor. ZEC surges 33% weekly, cutting monthly losses to 6%.

OKX lists ZEC spot trading in US. Zeus Network debuts Zeus MPC device enabling yield earning on ZEC. ZEC gets listed on Solana alongside other L1 coins.

Market analysis identifies Zcash as a top weekly performer clustered within the privacy and censorship resistance narrative, with attention and capital lining up around this theme.

ZEC consolidates at $450 for 4 days while remaining stable despite broader market decline. Funding rate turns negative.

Tate shills Zcash according to a crypto trader's stream agenda for December 12.

Grayscale Zcash fund trades below net asset value, with holder expressing hope for ETF conversion. A community member commits to writing a book about the project with monthly blog post chapters starting January 2026.

Arkham announces on-chain monitoring for ZEC claiming to have tagged 53% of transactions and labeled $2.5 billion in balances (37% of total), though the community disputes this applies to fully shielded transactions. A Fee Market Proposal offers reduced transaction costs and boosted network efficiency while whale accumulation drives over 20% weekly price increase.

ZEC gains 8% to reach $452 and breaks resistance level on December 12.

A crypto trader takes 50% profit from long positions due to bearish ZEC outlook and warns of potential downside if support breaks.

ZEC remains among the highest volume altcoins with a 50% price recovery after declining to $300.

Maya protocol now supports cross-chain ZEC transfers while EdgeWallet adds mobile support for shielded transactions.

ZEC demonstrates extreme relative strength as the only positive performer while Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana decline in a broader market selloff, with price moving significantly above the low $300s range.

Massive whale accumulation occurs this week with 15% price increase over 7 days. ZEC becomes available on Luno exchange in South Africa and Nigeria.

A developer forked the Zcash shielded transaction chain and references the ZTARKNEAR collaboration connecting Starknet, Zcash, and Near protocols.

Arkham analysis reveals U.S. government holds ~$1.5M in seized ZEC from 2017 AlphaBay case, and SEC Crypto Task Force schedules Dec. 15 privacy roundtable with Zcash as a key discussion topic.

Developer successfully implements Zcash-like privacy network on Bitcoin using BitVM, completing transactions without Layer 1 involvement and promises detailed technical write-up soon.

Traders warn ZEC reached a local price top and underperforms as a secondary "proxy trade" compared to primary assets in its category.

US government holds ZEC positions.

ZEC achieves top 10 performance ranking over 7-day period while shielded pool approaches 4.2M ZEC.

Zcash goes live on Arkham Intelligence platform amid criticism.

Cypherphunk Technologies stock surges 40% after Zooko Wilcox joins the ZEC treasury firm. ZEC price increases 11% leading major crypto gainers.