Zcash (ZEC) price

#9 in the top 100Privacy

$1,035−10.94%

Data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3, the price refreshes on the page

Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency that lets users choose between public and encrypted transfers.

Market cap: $17.6B
24h volume: $1.21B
Volume / market cap: 6.87%
Fully diluted value: $17.6B
Circulating supply: 17.0 M ZEC
Total supply: 17.0 M ZEC
Max supply: 21.0 M ZEC
24h range: $999.57 … $1,196
All-time high: $3,192October 28, 2016

Zcash chart

1 hour−2.07%

24 hours−10.94%

7 days−15.60%

30 days−17.12%

1 year+93.91%

Price in US dollars, data from CoinGecko

Analytics

What the numbers say about how the coin behaves. Based on hourly prices over 7 days and data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3.

Volatility

135%very high

3.0× higher than Bitcoin over the same week.

Link to Bitcoin

0.62clear

Mostly moves with Bitcoin. When Bitcoin moves 1%, ZEC moves 1.8% on average.

From the all-time high

−67.56%well below

The high of $3,192 was set on October 28, 2016.

Liquidity

6.9%high

A day’s trading equals 6.9% of market cap. Actively traded, easy to buy or sell.

Supply issued

81%most

81.1% of the max supply is out.

Place in the week’s range

6%near the bottom

The week ranged from $1,013 to $1,368, with a max drawdown of −25.96%.

Market share

0.72%notable

Share of the top-100 market cap.

What is Zcash

Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency with its own blockchain that went live in October 2016. It grew out of academic research: in 2013 cryptographer Matthew Green and his students at Johns Hopkins proposed the Zerocoin protocol, which a wider group of researchers then developed into the Zerocash scheme. A company led by Zooko Wilcox, later renamed the Electric Coin Company, brought the network to launch. Today several independent teams work on the protocol, including the nonprofit Zcash Foundation.

Much of the design follows Bitcoin: proof-of-work mining with the Equihash algorithm, a 21 million coin cap and halvings roughly every four years. A new block arrives about every 75 seconds. The key difference is that Zcash has two kinds of addresses. Transparent addresses behave like Bitcoin’s, with every transfer visible on chain. Shielded addresses rely on zero-knowledge proofs, so the network can confirm a transaction is valid without seeing the sender, the recipient or the amount. The NU5 upgrade in May 2022 added the Orchard pool built on Halo 2, a proof system that needs no trusted setup ceremony. Part of every block reward goes to development funds rather than to miners.

People use ZEC for payments where confidentiality matters and to hold funds without a public balance history. A holder can hand a viewing key to an auditor or accountant and reveal their activity to that person only. Unlike Monero, privacy in Zcash is a choice: transfers can also be fully public, while Monero hides the details of every transaction. Compared with Bitcoin, the main difference is that a transfer can be fully encrypted at the protocol level.

What it’s used for

confidential payments through shielded addresses
holding funds without a public balance history
selective disclosure to an auditor with a viewing key
ordinary public transfers through transparent addresses

Risks

regulatory pressure on privacy coins: some exchanges have already delisted ZEC in certain countries, and EU rules bar service providers from handling anonymity-enhancing coins from 2027
privacy is not automatic: a transfer from a transparent address is as visible on chain as a Bitcoin payment
mining concentration: in 2023 more than half of the network’s hashing power ran through a single pool, ViaBTC, which led Coinbase to require more confirmations for ZEC

Questions

How much is Zcash worth today?

As of November 11, 2026, Zcash trades at $1,035. Over 24 hours the price moved −10.94%, over 7 days −15.60%. The price on this page refreshes automatically.

How many ZEC are in circulation?

17.0 M ZEC are in circulation. Max supply is 21.0 M ZEC, so 81.1% has been issued. The fully diluted value of all coins is $17.6B.

What is the Zcash all-time high?

The all-time high of $3,192 was set on October 28, 2016. The price is now 67.56% below it. The all-time low was $16.08 (July 4, 2024).

How is Zcash different from Monero?

Monero applies privacy to every transfer by default. In Zcash the user decides: a transparent address works in the open like Bitcoin, while a shielded address hides the sender, recipient and amount using zero-knowledge proofs.

Can you see Zcash transactions on the blockchain?

Transfers between transparent addresses are fully visible in a block explorer. When both sides use shielded addresses, the chain stores only encrypted data and a proof that the transfer is valid, with no readable addresses or amount. The details are visible to whoever holds the viewing key.

Prices and analytics are for information only and are not investment advice. Market data source: CoinGecko.