Zcash

Zcash

Zcash Undergoes First Halving as Major Upgrade Drops ‘Founders Reward’

Sebastian SinclairNov 18, 2020

Along with the halving, Zcash has rolled out its Canopy upgrade that replaces the Founders Reward with built-in funding for development.

Zcash

ShapeShift Delists Privacy Coin Zcash Over Regulatory Concerns

Brady DaleNov 10, 2020

XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."

Privacy Coins

Bittrex to Delist ‘Privacy Coins’ Monero, Dash and Zcash

Kevin ReynoldsJan 1, 2021

While Bittrex gave no reason for the removals, exchanges around the world have been moving to delist coins that seek to hide the activity of their users.

CoinDesk 20

Volume Surge Brings 25% Turnover to ‘CoinDesk 20’

Galen MooreNov 10, 2020

In the latest CoinDesk 20 revision, five assets were replaced by crypto assets that saw recent quarterly volume surges.

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Jumps to $14.2K; Ethereum Gas Usage Grows 113% YTD

Daniel CawreyNov 4, 2020

Bitcoin’s price bounced Wednesday as Ethereum transaction fee data shows a DeFi downturn.

Zcash

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $13.6K as DeFi Total Value Locked Dips Below $11B

Daniel Cawrey

Bitcoin’s price hit $13,600 before retrenching while some investors pulled crypto out of DeFi.

Zcash

Privacy Coin Zcash Makes Its Ethereum ‘Wrapped’ Debut With Tokensoft and Anchorage

Ian Allison

WZEC is the first asset to be launched by “Wrapped,” a partnership between Ethereum tokenizers Tokensoft and qualified custodian Anchorage.

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $12K; Ethereum Fees Fall to 3-Month Low

Daniel Cawrey

Bitcoin’s price passed $12,000 while Ethereum fees dipped.

Monero

Cryptographers Are Always Going to Be ‘One Step Ahead’ of Regulators: Monero’s Spagni

Omkar Godbole

Privacy protocols have become the focal point of regulators and law enforcement agencies when the race among central banks to launch sovereign digital currencies is heating up.

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Has Light Response to OKEx While Ether Options Traders Make Beacon Bets

Daniel Cawrey

Bitcoin’s price is rebounding after an OKex-related dip. Meanwhile, ether options traders have a bearish "beacon chain" attitude.

Litecoin

In Effort to Differentiate, Litecoin Makes a Move to Privacy

Daniel Cawrey

Litecoin (LTC) founder Charlie Lee told CoinDesk in an interview the project is now looking to adopt key privacy-enhancing features, which he sees as increasingly attractive to cryptocurrency users.

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slips to $11,300; Ether Locked in DeFi Is Flat

Daniel Cawrey

Bitcoin’s price is slipping while the amount of ether parked in DeFi is stuck in neutral.