Zcash News Today: Now That ZEC Crypto Is Dead, What’s The Next Big Thing?

[Ben Graham]

You’re not crazy to be conflicted about ZEC and Zcash news today, what just happened is major.

What’s happening with Zcash ZEC $424.70 16.22% Zcash ZEC Price $424.70 16.22% /24h Volume in 24h $1.73B Price 7d Learn more right now is genuinely bifurcated, meaning structurally bullish on a multi-year horizon, tactically ugly in the short term. Both bulls and bears are reacting to different layers of the same event.

(Source: X)

Let’s break this into facts without hopium or Twitter FUD.

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1. ZEC News Today: What Actually Happened (stripped of spin)

(Source: TradingView)

No, Zcash did not “lose its entire dev team.” That headline is misleading.

What did happen:

• Senior ECC/Zcash builders stepped away from the nonprofit + foundation governance structure
• They are forming a new for-profit entity whose sole mandate is: shipping encrypted money faster
• It could mean less bureaucracy and fewer internal political choke points

The upshot is the Zcash protocol, chain, and funding mechanisms will continue to exist.

Core cryptography, specs, and IP are not being abandoned for Zcash. This is closer to a corporate spin-out than a collapse.

(Source: X)

This is more like Ethereum to ConsenSys or Bitcoin to Blockstream or Chaincode or Spiral.

It’s why people like Mert, Arjun Khemani (Naval Ravikant protégé), Chainyoda, etc., are calling it “OG-coded bullish.”

The confusion comes from people conflating “ECC org restructuring” with “Zcash protocol abandonment.” Those are not the same thing.

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2. Why Bulls Are Excited (and what bears get right)

The fundamental case for Zcash being that it is still the best private money is strong. This bull case, steel-manned, is that nonprofits are slow at building consumer-grade financial products.

Zcash’s biggest failure historically wasn’t cryptography; it was:

• UX
• integrations
• payments adoption
• regulatory agility

A lean, profit-aligned company can ostensibly iterate faster, hire without nonprofit constraints and ship wallets ASAP.

(Source: ZEC Shielded Pool Hasn’t Moved)

Basically, this recent selloff wasn’t ideological but levered longs nuked and stops cascading.

The real risk here is that crypto history is littered with talented builders with great intentions, not finding a product-market fit. Execution failure is always a possibility.

So bears aren’t saying Zcash is dead (okay, some of them are!) but that this transition can easily go wrong, and that’s fair.

4. The Chart Is Telling You Something Important (separate from fundamentals)

(Source: CoinGecko)

The ZEC chart shows three critical things:

1. This is not a normal pullback: We’re looking at violent vertical breakdown, bollinger bands blown out, RSI deeply oversold intraday
2. Long-term structure is still intact:  Even after the nuke, ZEC is massively up from the $18-$50 base and above multi-month zones
3. Volatility is the enemy (and your opportunity), meaning we could see a sharp relief rally from here, or more downside.

If you want the most important line from this article, it’s this: Does the new company do something real within 12-18 months?

Zcash has best-in-class zk tech, regulatory survivability history, credible cryptographers, and serious backers who don’t need quick exits. But if six months pass with no concrete output then you should reassess hard.

Meanwhile, ask yourself honestly: “Do I believe encrypted money will matter more or less by 2030?”

If the answer is “more,” Zcash belongs in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by marketcap.

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Key Takeaways

• What’s happening with Zcash right now is genuinely bifurcated, meaning structurally bullish on a multi-year horizon
• Ask yourself honestly: “Do I believe encrypted money will matter more or less by 2030?”

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