Privacy coins have climbed 213% since Bitcoin\u2019s October 2025 peak even as BTC itself remains well below that high, according to a breakdown posted today by analyst Wise Crypto.<\/p>\n
It is a narrow corner of the market, but one token in particular, Zcash (ZEC), has pulled the entire privacy sector into positive territory while most of crypto is still digging out of a year-long drawdown.<\/p>\n
Wise Crypto\u2019s numbers show<\/a> the privacy sector\u2019s combined market cap growing from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion now. Zcash accounts for roughly 62% of that total on its own, up 25x over the past year, with its market-cap ranking climbing from #82 to #7 at one point, though CoinGecko data currently places it at #9.<\/p>\n Glassnode data published last week also found<\/a> something similar: that privacy was the only sector trading above its October peak, with every other category still underwater by double digits.<\/p>\n Grayscale\u2019s Zcash ETF, ticker $ZCSH, crossed $500 million in assets within two weeks of launch, while Monero (XMR), the second-largest asset in the privacy category, has approximately doubled over the same stretch despite facing delistings from several exchanges.<\/p>\n Among the 25 biggest crypto assets, Wise Crypto noted that only four are still trading above their October levels: ZEC, HYPE, XMR, and WBT.<\/p>\n Investor Dan Tapiero told<\/a> The Wolf of All Streets on September 11 that the moves in ZEC and HYPE this cycle show crypto isn\u2019t just a Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana story anymore. \u201cZcash has been an enormous winner this year,\u201d he said, pointing to broader activity building outside the three largest chains.<\/p>\n A day later, Egor Sidelska of Infinex argued<\/a> that privacy is one of the only parts of crypto that hasn\u2019t already been built out and cloned across other chains, calling ZEC \u201cthe last 100x in crypto that isn\u2019t a random meme coin.\u201d<\/p>\n There has been less bullish reading elsewhere, with analyst filbfilb recently pushing back<\/a> on how far the Zcash rally can be trusted. He shared valuation models that compared ZEC\u2019s transaction activity against Bitcoin\u2019s at a similar stage of issuance, which landed on implied prices around $944, some way below where the coin is currently trading, although their convergence scenarios put fair value much higher if Zcash keeps closing the gap.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, the asset was changing hands at around $1,140, flat on the day but up 32% in the last two weeks and more than 2,100% over the past year, although it is still well off its 2016 all-time high near $3,190.<\/p>\n On the other hand, BTC was quite near $77,000, having lost just over 1% in 24 hours and about 34% in one year, putting it some 39% below its own ATH from October 2025.<\/p>\n The post This Crypto Sector Is Up 213% Since Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 Peak \u2013 One Coin Is Driving It<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Privacy coins have climbed 213% since Bitcoin\u2019s October 2025 peak even as BTC itself remains well below that high, according to a breakdown posted today by analyst Wise Crypto. It is a narrow corner of the market, but one token in particular, Zcash (ZEC), has pulled the entire privacy sector into positive territory while most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Whether the Rally Is Justified Is Still Being Debated<\/h2>\n