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Story: Zcash Jumps 90% in One Month While Ethereum, Solana, and XRP All Slide

By Pankaj K

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Analysts Split on Where ZEC Goes Next. The trading community isn't exactly united on this one.

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RSI Flashes Warning, Market Watches Closely. The Relative Strength Index is where things get interesting. RSI runs from 0 to 100.

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Zcash is having a moment. The privacy coin shot up 90% over the past month, a run that's turned heads across the crypto market at a time when most major altcoins are bleeding out.

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Ethereum, Ripple's XRP, and Solana have all posted declines during the same stretch. Zcash didn't care.

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Privacy coins, broadly, have been on the move.

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Monero and Dash have both caught upward momentum recently, and that rising tide probably helped pull Zcash along.

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The trading community isn't exactly united on this one. Analyst CryptoJack thinks ZEC broke out of a descending channel and could be setting up for a much bigger move.

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But not everyone's buying it. Altcoin Sherpa isn't chasing the rally. He's watching for a pullback toward $470 and wants to use that as an entry point.

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The Relative Strength Index is where things get interesting. RSI runs from 0 to 100. Anything above 70 is generally read as overbought territory, a signal that the asset has run…

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Related: Zcash Jumps 88% in a Month While the Rest of Crypto Sits Flat

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Whether that cooldown is healthy consolidation or the beginning of a real correction — unclear yet.

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The RSI move explains why traders like Altcoin Sherpa aren't rushing in. An RSI above 80 after a 90% monthly gain is the kind of setup that can end badly fast.

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And the broader context matters here. Zcash isn't operating in a vacuum. The fact that Ethereum and Solana are down while ZEC is up 90% is either a sign of genuine rotation into…

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What's not in dispute is the market cap shift. Surpassing Cardano and Bitcoin Cash isn't trivial — those are established, well-capitalized projects with large communities.

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Privacy coins have spent years as something of a niche concern, often overshadowed by smart contract platforms and DeFi tokens.

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