Five Year Outlook (adoption)As of 2026-07-14, 26.1% of all ZEC — 4,389,052 ZEC ($2.2B) — sits in shielded pools, versus 6.1% five years ago and 19.6% a year ago. The Orchard pool — Zcash's current shielded pool — holds 3,771,232 ZEC (up 64% from a year ago). Transactions average 4,469 per day (up 98% over the year, down 47% over three months). ZEC trades at $506.65, up 1077% on the year and up 43% over three months, a market cap of $8.5B; against Bitcoin, ZEC is up 2156% over the year. Securing it, the network hashrate is 20.6 GSol/s (up 310% over five years). In all, 16,820,527 of 21M ZEC has been issued (80% of the cap).
Daily Changes (market)Over the last 24 hours ZEC is down 2.1% at $506.65, in a 24h range of $490.98–$522.85, a market cap of $8.5B on $330M of 24h trading volume. It changes hands at 0.00810 BTC. Network hashrate is up 6% (19.9 GSol/s); the shielded pool shed 23,181 ZEC this week. Notable: Hashrate increase: 20.74 GH/s (+2.0 sigma) (2026-07-12); All-time high: 20.56 GH/s.