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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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ZEC Clears $700 as Grayscale's ETF Amendment Meets a Market-Wide Short Squeeze
Zcash is up 29% over 24 hours to $736.40 on Hyperliquid, and unlike most of what is green today, it has a story of its own. Grayscale filed a fourth S-3 amendment on August 18 to move its Zcash Trust onto NYSE Arca as ZCSH, disclosing that a DCG affiliate is in non-binding talks to contribute roughly 200,000 ZEC to the trust. The same day, Winklevoss-backed Cypherpunk Technologies switched on the largest Zcash mining fleet in the world, about 18% of network hashrate. Then Bitcoin broke a six-week range and billions in shorts got flushed, which is what turned a fundamentals bid into a 29% candle.
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ZEC Article Archive
ZEC Clears $700 as Grayscale's ETF Amendment Meets a Market-Wide Short Squeeze
Zcash is up 29% over 24 hours to $736.40 on Hyperliquid, and unlike most of what is green today, it has a story of its own. Grayscale filed a fourth S-3 amendment on August 18 to move its Zcash Trust onto NYSE Arca as ZCSH, disclosing th…
ZEC Drops 26% in Market-Wide Flush as Bitcoin Hits 21-Month Low
Zcash is down about 26% over 16 hours to $316, and almost none of it is Zcash-specific. Bitcoin slid to a 21-month low near $58,000 on June 26 as record spot-ETF outflows, hawkish Fed signaling, and Strategy's first-ever Bitcoin sale flu…
ZEC Rebuilds Toward $390 as Shielded Labs Pitches Turnstile Proof of Supply
Zcash is back near $384, up about 25% over 19 hours, pressing on the $387–$390 band it lost during last week's Orchard counterfeit-bug crash. The bid is no longer just short covering. Shielded Labs has proposed routing every coin leaving…
ZEC Reclaims $390 as a Supply-Proof Push Answers the Counterfeit Fear
Zcash is up about 30% over 24 hours, back to roughly $392 and clearing the $387–$390 band that traders had marked as the line between a real recovery and a retest of the low $300s. The bounce off the Orchard counterfeit-bug crash is now …
ZEC Recovers to $380 as Turnstile Math Squeezes a Record Short Book
ZEC is up roughly 49% over 24 hours, pushing back to about $380 as the recovery off the Orchard counterfeit-bug crash low near $265 keeps grinding. The fear that drove the selloff — that a privacy chain might also be minting invisible co…
ZEC Reclaims $365 as Turnstile Math Answers the Counterfeit Question
ZEC is back near $365, up about 19% on the day, extending the recovery off the Orchard counterfeit-bug crash. The reason this leg has legs: the supply-integrity fear that drove the selloff is getting a concrete answer. Zcash's turnstile …
ZEC Reclaims $366 With Record Short Interest Stacked Against It
ZEC is back at $366.30 after wicking toward $250 on the Orchard counterfeit-bug crash, reclaiming the exact support that gave way on the slide down. The selloff was spot-led — futures liquidations stayed light while open interest hit a r…
Zcash's Four-Year Orchard Bug Finally Owns the ZEC Tape
ZEC is down roughly 46% over 24 hours on Hyperliquid to about $317.40, and the narrative has flipped. Earlier legs of this drawdown read as high-beta macro pain, but the active catalyst now is Zcash-specific: Shielded Labs disclosed a cr…
ZEC Drops 30% as Bitcoin Breaks Yearly Lows and Hayes Trims His 'Holy Trinity'
ZEC fell about 30% over 24 hours to roughly $436, fully round-tripping the rally that carried it toward $640 last week. This is not a Zcash-specific blowup — it is a high-beta name getting flushed in the worst two-day crypto deleveraging…
ZEC Gives Back 16% to $527.90 — Beta, Not the Orchard Bug
ZEC slid roughly 16% over 18 hours to $527.90, retracing from the $630 area it reclaimed earlier this week. The easy story is the emergency Orchard vulnerability and the four-hour "network halt" that lit up timelines on June 3 — but that…
ZEC Extends Rally as Multicoin Discloses Its Cypherpunk Thesis
ZEC tacked on another 15% over the last 24 hours to $564.90 after Multicoin Capital partner Tushar Jain used a Consensus Miami stage to confirm what onchain trackers had been guessing for weeks: the firm has been quietly accumulating Zca…
ZEC Squeezes Through $580 as Hyperliquid's Largest Short Bleeds
ZEC ripped 37% over 21 hours to $572.90 as the perp cascaded through $580, forcing every smaller short to cover into thinning liquidity. The wallet running the venue's largest ZEC short — opened at $293 last October — has now sunk roughl…
Zcash Snaps Five-Month Downtrend on 77% Volume Spike and Short Liquidations
ZEC broke above its five-month descending trendline and cleared the 200-day moving average as 24-hour trading volume jumped 77% across Binance and OKX. The move was accelerated by $1.1 million in short liquidations and comes with Foundry…
How to Trade Zcash (ZEC) on Hyperliquid
Zcash is the original privacy cryptocurrency, using zero-knowledge proofs to shield transaction details on a Bitcoin-like blockchain with a 21 million supply cap. Its HIP-3 perpetual on Hyperliquid gives traders leveraged exposure to a c…
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 $…
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 r…
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 derivativ…
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 liqu…
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 i…
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 inst…
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 …
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…
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…
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 pas…
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