Bitcoin’s momentum loss continues as long-term holders add to market selling pressure and rising US dollar strength leads investors to reduce their exposure to risk.
Hayes’ call to self-custody Zcash highlights renewed focus on privacy coins as the sector sees sharp price swings and mixed performances.
2025 changed the crypto landscape. This was the year of coins that created value and onchain utility instead of hype.
Money was anonymous for thousands of years until the recent experiment in financial surveillance. Privacy-preserving crypto offers a path back to normalcy.
Privacy coins are on a tear this week, with Zcash flipping Monero for the largest privacy coin.
Zcash tops privacy coins with a $10.6 billion market cap, outperforming Monero amid renewed investor demand for onchain anonymity.
Crypto investors are rediscovering the importance of financial privacy, as privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies outperform a broader crypto market slump.
Zcash defied the crypto market downturn with a 45% rally this week, making it the most valuable privacy-focused cryptocurrency, following Hayes’ call for a $10,000 price target.
Monero’s “Fluorine Fermi” update enhances privacy by fighting nodes that try to link user IP addresses to their transactions.
Blockchain stakeholders may still negotiate with policymakers on the EU AML framework’s upcoming ban on privacy-preserving tokens, set to go into effect in 2027.