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It will be worth watching whether the ZCSH ETF can sustain over $2 million in daily volume throughout May.The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.

The layer-2 Ethereum scaling network’s privacy offering is expected to expand to additional blockchains.

Monero celebrates 12 years since launch in 2014 as leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency network.Network hides sender, receiver, and amount using cryptographic tools like Ring Confidential Transactions.Despite over 70 exchange delistings, Monero maintains active users and steady market participation.

Since its launch in 2014, the digital asset has cemented itself as the gold standard for financial anonymity.

Zcash has revealed that the vulnerabilities were not exploited to affect the consensus chain and all user funds remain safe.

Major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance, are scrambling to fortify their cybersecurity defenses ahead of the release of Anthropic's "Claude Mythos."

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is celebrating his 11th anniversary at Ripple by issuing a major rallying cry to the digital asset industry.

ZEC traded at approximately $170.60, up roughly 33.6% in 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap data at the time of the move; the shielded nature of the Grayscale accumulation has amplified speculation that the trust is preparing for an ETF conversion filing with the SECGrayscale filed in November 2025 to convert its Zcash Trust into a US-listed spot ZEC ETF on NYSE Arca; if approved, it would create the first regulated institutional on-ramp for ZEC, mirroring the catalyst that sent Bitcoin surging when IBIT launched in January 2024The SEC closed its investigation into Zcash on January 15, 2026, without recommending enforcement action — removing a regulatory overhang that had led multiple exchanges to delist ZEC in 2023 and 2024 and which had suppressed institutional interest

Zcash led altcoin rally, jumping as much as 25% amid a short squeeze on the crypto market.

Markets are ripping on a surprise Trump-announced ceasefire, while Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF goes live today.

Crypto prices jumped on the announcement of a two-week ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz—but macro events loom.

Zcash saw a significant volume surge that hints at a fundamental pivot in the minds of investors.

Zcash patched a critical flaw in zcashd nodes that skipped proof verification in the legacy Sprout pool, a bug that could have exposed more than 25,000 ZEC to potential draining.The vulnerability remained present from July 2020 until the release of v6.12.0, with no exploitation detected and all user funds confirmed safe.

A critical vulnerability in Zcash node software could have allowed attackers to drain millions of dollars of ZEC from a deprecated shielded pool.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun’s decision to sell a Thai condo once bought for 2,900 BTC for just 7 BTC illustrates the opportunity cost of spending Bitcoin early.

ZEC trades near $239 with rising volumes and a multi-session rally that is outpacing the broader large-cap crypto market.A governance shake-up created ZODL, which raised about $25m to expand Zcash’s protocol work, wallet stack, and shielded usage.Growing demand for privacy coins and tighter regulation have pushed Zcash into a renewed “regulatory hedge” and financial confidentiality narrative.