XRP
XRP
Zcash
ZEC
XRP vs Zcash
Last 7 days, both indexed to zero
Each line starts at zero seven days ago and shows the percentage move since, so the two are on the same scale regardless of what one coin costs. Seven days is a week, not a trend.
| XRP | ZEC | |
|---|---|---|
| Selling $100,000 loses What a $100,000 sell actually lost against the quoted price. Measured on-chain where we sweep the coin, otherwise on the exchange that took it best. | 0.03% Coinbase, 5 Oct | 0.06% Coinbase, 5 Oct |
| Price A higher price per coin is not a bigger asset — it is the same value cut into fewer pieces. | $1.50 | $1,320.57 |
| Market cap Price multiplied by circulating supply. The closest thing to "how big is this". | $94.68B (larger) | $22.41B |
| Rank by market cap | #5 (larger) | #9 |
| Change, 24h | ▲0.61% | ▲0.33% |
| Change, 7 days | ▲0.82% | ▼15.48% |
| 24h volume How much actually changed hands. Thin volume against a large market cap means the price is easier to move than the cap suggests. | $1.51B (larger) | $474.57M |
| Daily turnover Volume as a share of market cap — how much of the asset trades in a day. | 1.59% | 2.12% (larger) |
| Circulating supply | 63,092,975,951 XRP (larger) | 16,966,725 ZEC |
| Supply cap A hard cap and an uncapped supply are different designs, not a better and a worse one — what matters is whether issuance is predictable. | 100,000,000,000 max | 21,000,000 max |
| Below all-time high How far each sits under its own record price. It says where the price has been, not where it is going. | ▼58.90% | ▼58.63% |
| All-time high | $3.65 Jul 2025 | $3,191.93 Oct 2016 |
A highlighted figure is simply the larger of the two. It is marked on size, liquidity and supply — where bigger is a fact — and deliberately not on price or on percentage change, where "bigger" would be us implying a winner.
What each one is
XRP
XRP is the native asset of the XRP Ledger, a payment network that launched in 2012 and is closely associated with the company Ripple. It was built for one purpose: moving value between currencies quickly and cheaply, with transactions settling in seconds for a fraction of a cent.
Zcash
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.
What each one can do
| XRP | ZEC | |
|---|---|---|
| Be sold for dollars | Yes Through: An account at an exchange | Yes Through: An account at an exchange |
| Be held without a company | Yes Through: Nobody | Not written up |
| Send a payment | Yes Through: Nobody | Yes Through: Nobody |
| Earn a return by itself | No | Not written up |
| Run applications | Partly Through: Nobody, for what it does itself | Not written up |
| Limit its own supply | Partly Through: Ripple, for the share it holds | Yes Through: Nobody |
The reasons and the sources are on each coin’s page: XRP, Zcash. A “yes” is a description, not a point scored.
Where each one lives
XRP
Native asset. XRP has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Zcash
Native asset. ZEC has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Whichever you hold, holding it yourself is the same problem
Both of these can sit on an exchange, and on an exchange neither of them is yours in the way people assume. If you decide to hold either one properly, this is the category that does it — devices that keep the keys off any internet-connected machine.
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Other comparisons
Figures for XRP and Zcash synced 4m ago from CoinGecko and shown in USD. This page is market information and education, not financial advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell XRP or ZEC. Both can lose value.