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Cypherpunk Buys $29M in Zcash as Privacy Coins Gain 16% While AI and DeFi

2025-12-31
Cypherpunk Technologies, a Nasdaq-listed firm, has purchased an additional 56,418 ZEC for $29 million at an average price of approximately $514 per token. The acquisition brings the company’s holdings to roughly 1.76% of the Zcash network supply as of December 30, 2025.
Cypherpunk Buys $29M in Zcash as Privacy Coins Gain 16% While AI and DeFi

Cypherpunk Technologies, a Nasdaq-listed firm, has purchased an additional 56,418 ZEC for $29 million at an average price of approximately $514 per token. The acquisition brings the company’s holdings to roughly 1.76% of the Zcash network supply as of December 30, 2025.

Zcash currently trades at $527 with a market capitalization of $8.8 billion. Performance metrics show the token gained 28.5% over seven days, 33.9% over 14 days, 44.9% over 30 days, and 801.5% over one year. The token climbed over 30% in the past week alone, reaching approximately $530 at its recent peak.

The sector rose about 16% by late December 2025 while other cryptocurrency categories suffered steep declines. AI applications, decentralized finance protocols, and meme tokens dropped 60% to 90% in market capitalization during the same period.

Will McEvoy, CEO of Cypherpunk Technologies, called privacy “insanely undervalued” in a surveillance-heavy world. The company’s continued accumulation signals conviction in the privacy coin thesis at current price levels.

Investment firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Grayscale have highlighted privacy’s advantages through confidential transactions and network effects. These features set Zcash apart from transparent blockchain networks, though community members continue debating merits of competing privacy protocols like Monero.

Analyst Efloud posted technical analysis identifying a range structure between Zcash’s all-time high and a key support level marked as a blue box. If the price pulls back, this blue-box zone could act as support, with alerts set around this area.

The $655 level stands out as current higher timeframe resistance, located just below the all-time high. Efloud stated that observing lower timeframe signs of weakness or confirmation in this zone may structure a short-term trade setup accordingly.

If the market regains a bearish flow on ZEC and a sharp correction occurs, a green-box zone becomes an area of interest for potential support. The analyst’s framework identifies range-bound trading conditions between established resistance overhead and support below current price action.

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