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Zcash (ZEC) Price, Chart & Analysis

Live price, market capitalisation, trading volume and supply for Zcash (ZEC), with technical levels computed from daily closes on a verified exchange pair.

#14 by market cap365 days of price historyUpdated 3 minutes agoNot financial advice

Zcash
ZEC · Rank #14
$495.72
-4.80% past 24 hours

Updated 2 min ago Source: CoinLore

Market Cap

$8.04B

24h Volume

$270.93M

7d Change

+5.35%

Circulating Supply

16,226,349 ZEC / 21,000,000

01Price actionchart · key figures · levels

ZEC price chart

$579.57$535.94$492.30$448.67

Key figures

Relative strength (14d)
50.3

Above 70 is often called overbought, below 30 oversold. It is a momentum description, not a signal.

Position in 30-day range
30%

0% sits at the 30-day low, 100% at the 30-day high.

Realised volatility
84.7%

Annualised from the last 30 daily closes. Measures how much price has moved, not which way.

Largest drawdown
-71.8%

Biggest peak-to-trough fall within the 365 days of history we hold.

30-day change
+1.96%

Close to close over the last 30 daily candles.

These describe how price has already behaved. None of them is a forecast, and we do not publish price targets or buy and sell ratings.

Technical levels

Support, 30-day low
$451.75
Resistance, 30-day high
$589.18
SMA 20
$498.55

price below by 1.1%

SMA 50
$477.29

price above by 3.3%

SMA 200
$387.13

price above by 27.4%

EMA 12
$491.34
EMA 26
$491.88

Computed from daily closing prices on a verified exchange pair. Support and resistance here simply name the highest and lowest print of the last 30 days — see our explainer on why they are not lines on a chart.

02Track recordwindow highs · trailing returns

Historical performance

365-day high
$750.00 7 Nov 2025
Down from that high
-34.25%
365-day low
$34.45 20 Aug 2025
Up from that low
+1,331.35%
7-day return
+4.88%
30-day return
+1.96%
90-day return
-19.57%
1-year return
+1,193.55%

Measured over the 365 days of daily candles we hold for this asset — deliberately not described as an all-time figure, because it is not one. Past returns say nothing about future ones.

03Convert & comparelive rate · benchmarks

Zcash converter

ZEC to USD

ZECUSD
0.5 ZEC $247.86
1 ZEC $495.72
2 ZEC $991.44
5 ZEC $2,479
10 ZEC $4,957
50 ZEC $24,786
100 ZEC $49,572

USD to ZEC

USDZEC
$100 0.201727 ZEC
$500 1.0086 ZEC
$1,000 2.0173 ZEC
$5,000 10.0863 ZEC
$10,000 20.1727 ZEC
$50,000 100.8634 ZEC
$100,000 201.7268 ZEC

Calculated from the live price above. For any other amount or pair, use our full converter.

Compared with Bitcoin and Ethereum

Asset Price 24h Market cap Volume 24h
Zcash ZEC $495.72 -4.80% $8.04B $270.93M
Bitcoin BTC $64,745 +0.12% $1.29T $82.25B
Ethereum ETH $1,915 +1.06% $234.39B $7.64B

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06Research & referencebackground · coverage · FAQ

About Zcash

Zcash launched in 2016 from an academic project, and its contribution is a practical one: it made zero-knowledge proofs work at scale on a public blockchain years before that technique became fashionable elsewhere. The point was privacy, but the cryptography has since influenced a great deal beyond it.

How it works

Zcash forked Bitcoin’s basic design and added shielded addresses. A transaction between shielded addresses is recorded on the chain, but sender, recipient and amount are encrypted; a zero-knowledge proof demonstrates the transaction is valid — that the money exists and is not being spent twice — without revealing any of those details. Transparent addresses also exist and behave like Bitcoin’s, which is why privacy here is a choice rather than a default.

Supply

Zcash follows Bitcoin’s monetary shape closely: a hard cap of 21 million ZEC, issued through mining, with the block reward halving on a fixed schedule. For its first years a portion of each block was directed to founders and later to a development fund, which is a meaningful difference from Bitcoin and a long-running source of debate in its community.

What to watch

The share of supply held in shielded addresses is the metric that matters. Privacy in a system like this depends on the size of the anonymity set: if few transactions are shielded, those that are stand out. Also watch exchange listings — several venues in several jurisdictions have delisted privacy coins in response to regulatory pressure, which affects liquidity directly.

Where it is used

Zcash is used where financial privacy is the requirement, and it is worth saying that this is an ordinary need rather than a suspicious one: salaries, business payments and personal balances are not usually public information.

The risks are concrete. Regulatory hostility toward privacy-preserving assets is real and has already cost Zcash access to venues, which can leave holders with thinner liquidity than the market capitalisation implies. Its shielded pool is used by a minority of transactions, so the privacy it offers is weaker in practice than in principle. And the cryptography, while heavily reviewed, is complex enough that flaws have been found and patched before.

Latest analysis

We have not published anything specific to Zcash yet. This is our most recent market analysis.

Frequently asked questions

Key figures stay on the row when a question is closed. Every number updates with the live Zcash price.

The asset 2

What is Zcash?

Zcash launched in 2016 from an academic project, and its contribution is a practical one: it made zero-knowledge proofs work at scale on a public blockchain years before that technique became fashionable elsewhere.

Where can I see how ZEC has moved?

The price chart above is built from daily closes on a verified exchange pair, and every figure on this page states when it was last updated. Our markets dashboard puts this asset beside the rest of the market.

Price and supply 2

What is the price of Zcash today?

$495.72

Read server-side from CoinLore on a fixed schedule and cached, so it is an indicative reference figure rather than a quote you can trade on — the exact price depends on your venue. Our methodology documents the provider chain and refresh intervals.

How many ZEC are there?

16.23M ZEC

That is the circulating supply — the units actually in the market. The maximum supply is 21,000,000, so the gap between the two is dilution that has not landed yet.

Risk and history 3

How volatile is Zcash?

84.7% annualised

Realised volatility from the last 30 daily closes. The largest peak-to-trough fall inside the 365 days of history we hold is -71.8%. Both measure how far price has already travelled, not which way it goes next.

What has ZEC traded between this month?

$451.75 – $589.18

The lowest and highest prints of the last 30 daily candles, with price currently around 30% of the way up that range. They are simply the extremes of the period — not levels anyone is defending. The technicals section shows the moving averages alongside them.

Is Zcash a good investment?

We do not answer that, and you should be wary of anyone who does. Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your entire position. Do your own research, size any position so a total loss would not hurt you, and treat every price target you read as the opinion of whoever made it. Our disclaimer sets out our full position.

Not financial advice. Crypto assets are volatile and high-risk. Prices shown are indicative and may be delayed. Always do your own research. Coinpric does not provide financial advice.