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Zcash / ZEC
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ZEC is the Hyperliquid HIP-3 market for Zcash on hyna. Official perpAnnotation text is unavailable, so this description is provisional until manual review.
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Whale Short Hammers ZEC HIP-3 Perp $25 Below Spot
The hyna:ZEC perpetual on Hyperliquid dropped 11.24% to $251 over eight hours while spot Zcash held near $276 on major exchanges. The divergence traces to Hyperliquid's largest ZEC short — wallet 0xd475 — adding roughly $1 million to a $4.78 million position at 5x leverage on the overnight session of March 17-18. Thin HIP-3 liquidity amplified the move, creating a rare ~$25 perp-spot gap on a market doing just $545K in daily volume.
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Whale Short Hammers ZEC HIP-3 Perp $25 Below Spot
The hyna:ZEC perpetual on Hyperliquid dropped 11.24% to $251 over eight hours while spot Zcash held near $276 on major exchanges. The divergence traces to Hyperliquid's largest ZEC short — wallet 0xd475 — adding roughly $1 million to a $4.78 million position at 5x leverage on the overnight session of March 17-18. Thin HIP-3 liquidity amplified the move, creating a rare ~$25 perp-spot gap on a market doing just $545K in daily volume.
ZEC Leads Privacy Rotation as Bitcoin Clears $75,000
Bitcoin's derivatives-driven push past $75,000 on March 17 triggered the strongest altcoin rotation in weeks, with Zcash leading the privacy sector at a 17.9% daily gain. The move extends a 28.5% weekly run backed by ZODL's $25 million raise, Foundry's mining pool announcement, and a record shielded pool, but the $280 resistance that has capped every rally since February held again at $288. The FOMC rate decision on March 18 is the next binary catalyst.
127K ZEC Leave Exchanges in 72 Hours as Hashrate Hits Record
Zcash saw 127,000 coins leave centralized exchanges over 72 hours ending March 17 while network hashrate hit a record 14.03 Ghash/s. The on-chain accumulation signal arrives as ZEC consolidates at $266 after touching $288, with derivative funding rates still negative despite a 28.5% weekly gain. Shorts have not capitulated, and the supply squeeze from halved issuance, record shielded pool locks, and accelerating exchange outflows has room to extend.
ZEC Clears $280 as Shielded Pool Hits Record 5.1 Million
Zcash tagged $288 on March 17, its highest price since February 18, as the shielded pool reached a record 5.1 million ZEC locked in privacy-preserving addresses. That represents 31% of circulating supply effectively removed from the liquid float, tightening the supply picture at the same time daily volume has expanded past $600 million. The move that started as a thin-book Hyperliquid perp squeeze has broadened into a full market re-rate backed by three institutional catalysts stacked in the past month.
ZEC Open Interest Jumps 65% as Double-Bottom Breakout Approaches $280
Zcash aggregate open interest across all venues jumped to $466 million on March 17 from a monthly low of $282 million, a 65% expansion that signals the rally has broadened well beyond the thin-book Hyperliquid perp squeeze that started it. ZEC touched $275, its highest since February 18 and a 40% recovery from the $195 double-bottom printed earlier this month. The institutional catalysts from the prior week, ZODL's $25M raise and Foundry's mining pool announcement, are now attracting real positioning rather than just speculative perp flow.
ZEC Clears $270 as Foundry Mining Pool and ZODL Funding Stack Behind the Squeeze
Zcash's HIP-3 perp on Hyperliquid has extended its rally to 20% over 24 hours, pushing through the $250–$270 resistance corridor that capped every bounce since February. The move started as a TWAP-driven perp squeeze but now has two institutional catalysts behind it: Foundry Digital's announcement of a compliant, institutional-grade Zcash mining pool launching in April, and ZODL's $25 million seed round from Paradigm and a16z closed a week earlier. Spot ZEC remains at a discount to the perp, but the gap is narrowing as the fundamental story catches up to the positioning trade.
TWAP Buys Stack Nearly $1M on ZEC Perp, Squeezing Hyperliquid Shorts
Zcash's HIP-3 perp on Hyperliquid ripped 14.7% in 23 hours after roughly $991,000 in TWAP buy orders stacked through a thin order book, catching net-short whales offside. Spot ZEC moved only about 4% in the same window, putting the perp at a significant premium and pointing squarely at derivatives positioning — not a fundamental re-rate — as the proximate driver. The afterglow of ZODL's $25 million seed round, announced March 9, is providing background bid, but the price action is a Hyperliquid-native story.
ZEC Snaps Back From Oversold Lows as Shielded Supply Nears 5 Million
Zcash bounced 8% over 19 hours after touching multi-week lows near $197, riding a broader crypto relief rally led by Bitcoin's climb back above $67,000. The move comes as ZEC's shielded pool holds near 30% of circulating supply — up from 11% a year ago — tightening available float and giving the oversold bounce more room to work. Dash's integration of Zcash's Orchard privacy pool into its Evolution chain, expected to go live this month after completing security audits, adds a near-term technical catalyst.
ZEC Rejected at $250 as Rally Fades Into Profit-Taking
Zcash dropped 8.27% over 22 hours to $229.20 after getting slapped back from the $250 level during the broader crypto market's post-breakout cooldown. The rejection is the latest chapter in ZEC's struggle to reclaim meaningful resistance zones — and traders who chased the March 4 rally are now underwater.
ZEC Surges 10% as Binance Listing and Privacy Narrative Converge
Zcash ripped nearly 10% in under 20 hours on Hyperliquid, pushing to $240 as two catalysts landed simultaneously: Binance opened a new ZEC/U spot trading pair with zero maker fees, and a broader crypto rally driven by Bitcoin surging past $74,000 on massive ETF inflows gave privacy coins a fresh bid.
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