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Zcash just exploded 40% – and the privacy coin rally is no longer just a crypto-native trade

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Zcash is rapidly shedding its historical reputation as a niche tool for digital anonymity, transforming instead into a high-stakes institutional hedge against global financial surveillance. According to CryptoSlate's data, the privacy-centric cryptocurrency rocketed roughly 40% in a single trading session on Wednesday, briefly eclipsing the $600 mark to hit a local peak of $603 before […] The post Zcash just exploded 40% – and the privacy coin rally is no longer just a crypto-native trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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