Market data as of 41 min. ago
$1,160▲ +2.3%
Price history
Key figures
- Market cap
- $19.6B
- Fully diluted
- $24.4B
- 24h volume
- $1.08B
- Circulating supply
- 16,923,548 ZEC
- Total supply
- 16,923,548 ZEC
- Max supply
- 21,000,000 ZEC
- FDV to market cap
- 1.24×
- Supply issued
- 80.6 %
- Listed since
- Oct 29, 2016
Above 1 means supply is still being issued
Circulating share of the maximum
Change
- 1h
- ▼ −0.7%
- 24h
- ▲ +2.3%
- 7d
- ▼ −13.4%
- 30d
- ▼ −24.3%
How this coin behaves
Measured from 1200 days of daily closes. These describe what the price has done, not what it will do.
- 30-day volatility
- 1.0 %
- Typical day
- 3.2 %
- Days closing higher
- 51 %
- Best day
- ▲ +29.1%
- Worst day
- ▼ −27.0%
- Deepest drawdown
- ▼ −71.8%
- Below its high
- ▼ −29.9%
- Correlation with BTC
- 0.55
Standard deviation of daily moves, annualised
Median daily move over 90 days
Over the last 365 days
Aug 21, 2026
Jun 4, 2026
Nov 16, 2025 to Mar 7, 2026
High of $1,652 on Sep 26, 2026
Daily moves over 90 days, −1 to +1
Base rates and derivatives positioning
How often this coin has actually managed a move of a given size in 30 days, and how the perpetual market is positioned right now.
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Base rates turn a price target into a frequency: how often a move that size has happened before.
Where it came from
Zcash launched in 2016 out of academic cryptography work by researchers including Matthew Green and Eli Ben-Sasson, and was the first practical deployment of zero-knowledge proofs in a production cryptocurrency. Its launch ceremony, designed so that no single participant could compromise the setup, is still cited as a landmark in applied cryptography.
What it does
Zcash is a proof-of-work chain with the same supply schedule as Bitcoin and optional shielded transactions. A shielded transfer proves it is valid without revealing sender, recipient or amount. Transparent transactions also exist, and the split between the two is a persistent design tension.
What moves the price
- The proportion of value held in shielded addresses, which is the only measure of whether the privacy feature is actually used.
- Exchange delistings in jurisdictions that restrict privacy-preserving assets, which is the single largest recurring risk to its liquidity.
- Its halving schedule, inherited from Bitcoin's design and landing on a comparable cadence.
- The development fund, which directs a share of block rewards to funding and is renegotiated periodically.
A description of how this asset works, not advice about holding it. Figures above update with the market data; this text is reviewed by hand. Reviewed Sep 3, 2026
About Zcash
Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency . Users are able to generate ZEC through the process of mining. Zcash has a current supply of 16,916,638.9155448. The last known price of Zcash is 1,154.70515814 USD and is down -5.32 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 659 active market(s) with $1,082,874,160.33 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://z.cash/.
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What the market implies for the Zcash price
Every open market that names a Zcash price level, ordered by how far that level is from today. The price is what traders currently pay for it. Measured against $1,160
Levels above the price
| Level | Move needed | Market price | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↑ $2,000on touching | ▲ +72.4% | 25 %▼ −1.4% | in 74 days |
Levels below the price
| Level | Move needed | Market price | Resolves |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ $700.00on touching | ▼ −39.7% | 30 %▲ +4.5% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $600.00on touching | ▼ −48.3% | 20 %▲ +0.0% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $500.00on touching | ▼ −56.9% | 11 %▼ −0.5% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $400.00on touching | ▼ −65.5% | 7 %▲ +0.0% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $300.00on touching | ▼ −74.1% | 5 %▲ +0.5% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $200.00on touching | ▼ −82.8% | 5 %▼ −0.1% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $100.00on touching | ▼ −91.4% | 3 %▲ +0.0% | in 74 days |
| ↓ $50.00on touching | ▼ −95.7% | 3 %▲ +0.0% | in 74 days |
A historical frequency, not a probability. It counts how often the move happened in the last three years of daily closes; a change in regime breaks it. Market prices are live and move. One more open market on this coin does not name a price level.
Historical frequency, other venues, options
How often this coin has actually covered each of these distances in a window of that length, what Kalshi charges for the same question, and for bitcoin and ether what the options market implies.
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The market price says what traders charge. The base rate says how often it has happened. Seeing both in one row is the whole point.
Other open markets on this coin
Open prediction markets whose question turns on Zcash. Prices update with the rest of the site.
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What is moving the Zcash price right now — researched with sources, not a price target.
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Common questions
What is Zcash (ZEC)?
Zcash launched in 2016 out of academic cryptography work by researchers including Matthew Green and Eli Ben-Sasson, and was the first practical deployment of zero-knowledge proofs in a production cryptocurrency. Its launch ceremony, designed so that no single participant could compromise the setup, is still cited as a landmark in applied cryptography. Zcash is a proof-of-work chain with the same supply schedule as Bitcoin and optional shielded transactions. A shielded transfer proves it is valid without revealing sender, recipient or amount. Transparent transactions also exist, and the split between the two is a persistent design tension.
How volatile is Zcash?
Over the last 30 days, Zcash has an annualised volatility of 1.0 %. The median daily move across the last 90 days is 3.2 %. Both describe what the price has done, not what it will do.
What is the biggest drawdown Zcash has had?
Across the daily closes on file, the deepest peak-to-trough fall is 72 %, from 2025-11-16 to 2026-03-07. The highest close in that window is $1,652 on 2026-09-26.
What are prediction markets saying about the Zcash price?
The most heavily traded open market on Zcash asks whether the price reaches $2,000 within 74 days. Traders currently price that at 25 %. That is a market price, not a forecast, and it moves.
What moves the Zcash price?
The proportion of value held in shielded addresses, which is the only measure of whether the privacy feature is actually used. Exchange delistings in jurisdictions that restrict privacy-preserving assets, which is the single largest recurring risk to its liquidity. Its halving schedule, inherited from Bitcoin's design and landing on a comparable cadence. The development fund, which directs a share of block rewards to funding and is renegotiated periodically.
What is the market cap of Zcash?
Zcash has a market capitalisation of $19.6 billion, ranking 10th by market cap. The figure updates with the market data on this page.
Other coins in Layer 1 blockchains
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