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By Evie Vavasseur
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What Sparked the Move. Two things seem to be driving this, and they're pretty different in nature.
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Broader Market Had a Rough Day. While Zcash ran, the wider crypto market was kind of stuck. The 1.3% gain across the $2.
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Governance as a Price Driver. Market participants spent a lot of Thursday echoing Huang's take on governance.
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Zcash ripped higher Thursday. The token jumped nearly 15%, touching $1,388 before settling just above $1,370 around 5:45 a.m.
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That move pushed Zcash's market cap to $23.21 billion, widening its lead over Monero by more than $10 billion.
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Two things seem to be driving this, and they're pretty different in nature. One is a technical governance decision by the Zcash community.
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On the governance side, the Zcash community voted to shorten the target block time from 75 seconds down to 25 seconds.
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Then there's Huang. The Paradigm co-founder came out publicly in support of Zcash's inflation-funded developer fund, framing it as a defense against what he sees as long-term…
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Paradigm's ongoing investment in ZEC and ZODL reinforced that. It's not just talk. Institutional money is already in the trade, and Huang's public comments probably made it…
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Read also: NEAR Leads Crypto Surge with 16.6% Jump Amidst Mixed Market Trends
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While Zcash ran, the wider crypto market was kind of stuck. The 1.3% gain across the $2.7 trillion total market cap was real but modest, and the reasons aren't hard to find. The U.
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So you've got a situation where the macro environment was actively working against crypto, and most of the market reflected that. Privacy coins didn't care.
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Monero, for its part, trended lower during the same period. That's worth sitting with for a second.
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Market participants spent a lot of Thursday echoing Huang's take on governance. The idea that Zcash needs its inflation-funded developer fund to stay competitive against future…
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The block time cut matters too, maybe more than it's getting credit for. Cutting from 75 seconds to 25 seconds while preserving the halving schedule is a technical signal that…
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