Zcash ZEC
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CM Profile: Zcash
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ZEC, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.10% and 0.11%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ZEC. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 12.1% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ZEC
Selling $100,000 of ZEC into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase ZEC/USD | 0.10% | $99,900 | 2026-10-08 |
| Kraken ZEC/USD | 0.11% | $99,890 | 2026-10-08 median of 44 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps ZEC on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
ZEC halving: 895,369 blocks to go
At block 4,406,400 the reward drops from 1.5625 to 0.78125 ZEC, halving the rate of new supply. We are not putting a date on it — see the page for why.
What Zcash is
Zcash launched in 2016 as a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on Bitcoin's codebase, notable for being the first significant deployment of zero-knowledge proofs — cryptography that lets a transaction be verified as valid without revealing sender, recipient or amount.
It offers two address types. Transparent addresses behave like Bitcoin's and are fully public. Shielded addresses use the zero-knowledge system and reveal nothing.
That optionality is Zcash's central weakness, and it is worth understanding. Because most activity has historically used transparent addresses, the pool of shielded transactions is comparatively small — and privacy depends on crowd size. A shielded transaction in a thin anonymity set is less private than the same technology would be if everyone used it, which is the practical distinction between Zcash and Monero's mandatory approach. Zcash also drew early criticism for its founders' reward, which directed a share of block rewards to the company and investors during its first years.
What Zcash can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.10% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
Anyone can send zcash to any address. A payment can be shielded, which keeps its details private, or transparent, which leaves them public as on most blockchains. Which one is the user's choice. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: Zcash: shielded and transparent · checked 2 October 2026
Zcash has a fixed total supply of 21 million coins, the same as Bitcoin, and the reward for each new block halves on a schedule. The halving countdown →
Source: Zcash docs: basics · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Zcash has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
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Zcash data synced 60s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ZEC.