Odaily News: Crypto mining company Fortitude has secured priority allocation for Bitmain's next-generation Zcash miners, with both parties reaching a non-binding commitment for a potential purchase amount of up to $100 million. Under the agreement, the relevant miners are expected to begin delivery in the second quarter of 2027, with the specific timeline still subject to final product specifications and pricing arrangements. It is reported that this collaboration will help Fortitude establish an early position in next-generation Zcash mining equipment and further expand its infrastructure capabilities in the privacy coin mining sector. (The Block)

Odaily reports: Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss said the current market hype around privacy coin Zcash is reminiscent of the 2019 crypto market, when Bitcoin had just emerged from the 2018 bear market and market attention shifted toward institutional infrastructure and custody.Zcash launched in 2016 and uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable private transactions. It has long faced regulatory scrutiny, and some exchanges have delisted it. According to CoinGecko data, the price of ZEC rose from about $511 in January 2026 to $1,335.51 on September 16. Since receiving approval from New York State in 2018, Gemini has become the first licensed exchange to offer Zcash trading and custody services.

Odaily News: After Vitalik Buterin released his open-source novel "Snowmoon," a same-name concept token $ZC (Zipcoin) appeared on-chain. GMGN data shows that $ZC's market cap briefly touched $20.89 million before falling back to approximately $14.34 million, with intraday gains at one point exceeding 41x; separate on-chain observations noted its market cap surpassed $15 million on the 29th.Some traders created separate tokens such as $SNOWMOON, $ZC, and $EMERALD based on elements from the novel including the book title, currency, and AI assistant, sparking a rapid round of speculation around the text's worldbuilding.After $ZC launched on STOCKER, it drove $STOCKER up approximately 10x at one point, with related observations noting its market cap at around $15 million, while $STOCKER was approximately $7 million.Around the "Snowmoon" narrative, some have further speculated that Vitalik was "disguising" a privacy coin whitepaper within the novel

Odaily News: Over the past five months, the market cap of the privacy coin sector grew from $11.97 billion to $36.51 billion, an increase of $24.54 billion, or approximately 205%. Among them, Zcash (ZEC) market cap increased by $20.27 billion, while Monero (XMR) increased by $4.33 billion.In January, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concluded its investigation into the Zcash Foundation without recommending enforcement action. On August 25, digital asset management company Grayscale converted Zcash Trust into the ZCSH spot ETF and listed it on NYSE Arca, making it the first listed privacy coin spot ETF in the United States.On September 8, Digital Currency Group (DCG) exchanged ZEC for approximately $100 million worth of ZCSH ETF shares. During the same period, the price of ZEC rose from $319 to $1,507, while XMR rose from $330 to $555. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily News: European asset management company 21shares has launched physically-backed Zcash ETP and Ether.fi ETP on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam markets, tracking ZEC and ETHFI respectively. Investors can gain exposure through brokerage accounts without directly holding the tokens.ETHFI is the governance and utility token of the decentralized finance protocol Ether.fi. Both ETPs carry an annual management fee of 2.5%. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily星球日报讯 中国最高人民检察院机关报《检察日报》理论版刊发文章，提出加密货币洗钱起诉框架，建议法院在嫌疑人使用混币器、隐私币且未提供合理反证时推定其存在犯罪意图，并将可验证链上记录和区块链分析公司报告作为证据。文章还建议建立国家级平台，通过定向拍卖等合规渠道托管和处置被查扣加密货币。该文由湖南省两名基层检察官和一名高校法学教授撰写，不具备法律效力。文章称，中国检方 2024 年起诉了 3000 余名涉加密货币洗钱人员。Chainalysis 数据显示，中文洗钱网络 2025 年处理约 160 亿美元资金，目前约占全球加密货币洗钱总量的五分之一。（Decrypt）。

Odaily reported that Cointelegraph posted on X platform, stating that the Philippines is tightening cryptocurrency regulatory rules and banning privacy coins from trading on licensed exchanges.

Odaily Seer Prophet Channel monitoring shows that the probability of "Zcash will hit $100 in 2026" on Polymarket has risen to 53%, a 24-hour increase of 36%.Market rules: If between 17:35 on November 24, 2025, and 23:59 on December 31, 2026 (Eastern Time), the lowest price (Low) of any 1-minute candlestick of the Binance ZEC/USDT trading pair reaches or falls below the price stated in the title, this market will immediately settle as "Yes"; otherwise, it will settle as "No." Settlement is based solely on the 1-minute candlestick data of the Binance ZEC/USDT trading pair; prices from other exchanges or trading pairs will not be considered.In previous news, the privacy coin Zcash disclosed and fixed a critical security vulnerability that could have been exploited by malicious miners to transfer over 25,000 ZEC (approximately $6.5 million) from the deprecated Sprout privacy pool. Officials stated that the vulnerability had existed since July 2020 but was not actually exploited, and user funds remained safe at all times. The development team has released version v6.12.0 to complete the fix, and major mining pools have already upgraded their deployments.Odaily Seer Prophet Channel continues to monitor prediction markets, seeing changes before pricing.

Odaily reported that Haseeb, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, has addressed the recently patched Zcash vulnerability, stating that there are many misconceptions in the market regarding the incident. He pointed out that even if the vulnerability had been exploited before the fix, an attacker could only profit by forging ZEC within the shielded pool. For these tokens to enter mainstream trading platforms, they would first need to be converted from shielded addresses to transparent addresses. Since the supply of ZEC in transparent addresses is publicly verifiable, any abnormal transfers exceeding the maximum supply would be detected and blocked. Therefore, the vast majority of investors and exchange users holding transparent ZEC would not be affected.Haseeb stated that the Zcash team plans to introduce a new “Turnstile” mechanism and a new shielded pool in future upgrades to verify that the current shielded pool does not suffer from inflation issues. He also noted that formally verified cryptographic systems can reduce implementation errors at the design level. Finally, Haseeb disclosed that Dragonfly still holds ZEC, and he is personally an investor in ZODL.

Odaily reported that Arthur Hayes stated that as big tech companies, governments, and AI continue to expand their surveillance capabilities, monetary privacy will become "very necessary" in the future.Arthur Hayes said this is why he holds the privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) as his second-largest personal asset. (Cointelegraph)