Zcash (ZEC) Defies Market Chaos With Stunning 40% Rally
While red dominates crypto charts, ZEC rockets against the tide.
Privacy coin's surge sparks speculation—institutional play or just a dead cat bounce?
Traders scramble as Zcash proves even 'obsolete' tech can pump when Wall Street least expects it.
Technical drivers fueling the rally
Since the end of October, the price of Zcash has risen from below $100 to nearly $700. A 4-hour TradingView chart shows that a strong upward trend is supported between $450 to $500. This trendline has provided multiple bounces, confirming the continuing heavy bullish momentum.
Technical indicators reinforce this narrative. The MACD recently broke above its signal line, indicating rising upward pressure. The MACD indicator is a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of the security’s price.
Green histogram bars support this, showing momentum is gaining strength. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is now around 73, suggesting ZEC is entering overbought territory. The indicator measures price speed and changes from 0–100. Traders use it to spot overbought or oversold conditions and anticipate possible trend reversals in crypto. Consequently, a short-term pullback could occur, but the trend remains positive.
Zcash’s trading is seeing huge activity, with $8.92 billion in futures and $1.44 billion in spot trades. Its market value is $11.58 billion, and 16.31 million ZEC are circulating. Binance leads trading, handling $40.54 million and seeing more ZEC coming in than going out.
Coinbase handled $18.37 million in trades and saw more ZEC coming in than going out. Kraken traded less at $8.83 million, with more ZEC leaving than arriving. Overall, Binance clearly leads ZEC trading and liquidity.
Investor confidence and market buzz
Zcash (ZEC) is experiencing a remarkable price surge in November 2025, rocketing over 1,000% since early September to trade above $680 amid a broader crypto market dip, fueled by a potent resurgence of the privacy coin narrative and aggressive pumping from key opinion leaders (KOLs).
The rally gained momentum following the U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of $15 billion in traceable Bitcoin assets, spotlighting the vulnerabilities of transparent ledgers and positioning ZEC as essential “insurance against Bitcoin” for high-net-worth users seeking zk-SNARK-enabled shielded transactions, with over 30% of supply now in private pools.
High-profile endorsements from KOLs like BitMEX Co-Founder Arthur Hayes, who loaded up via his Maelstrom fund and forecasted $10,000 targets, alongside AngelList’s Naval Ravikant dubbing it a privacy hedge, have ignited FOMO and short liquidations, amplifying the MOVE as institutional inflows into Grayscale’s ZEC Trust hit $150 million.
Joining the privacy coin trend, several high-profile investors are fueling Zcash momentum. On a major note, Cypherpunk Technologies disclosed a 203,775 ZEC treasury purchase, totaling $50 million. This investment has doubled, yielding an unrealized gain of $54 million.
With the November halving slashing block rewards by 50% and cross-chain integrations boosting real-world adoption, ZEC’s ascent underscores privacy’s evolution from niche feature to Core demand in an era of escalating surveillance.
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