Every Zcash number on one page, computed from a full node we run — not copied from an exchange API. 59 charts, updated daily.
As of 25 October 2026, one ZEC buys 0.01511 BTC — up 5.6× over five years, up 6.1× on the year and up 94% over three months. Five years ago it bought 0.002675 BTC.
In dollars that is $1,215.75 a coin (up 340% on the year and up 139% over three months), a market cap of $20.7B — 1.3% of Bitcoin's. Spot sits 3.3× above the realized price of $371 — the average price at which a ZEC last crossed a pool boundary — so the typical coin is held at a gain.
Behind it: 29.2% of all ZEC — 4.97M ZEC, $6.0B — sits in shielded pools, against 30.1% a year ago and 7.8% five years ago. Ironwood, the current shielded pool, holds 4.18M ZEC, with 346k ZEC still in Orchard, its predecessor, crossing the turnstile.
Transactions average 9,345 a day (up 68% on the year and up 134% over three months), of which 4,969 — 53% — are shielded, against 26% a year ago. Transparent addresses are being paid for the first time at 2,084 a day (down 2% on the year and up 119% over three months). An address is not a person: wallets derive a fresh one per payment received.
17.0M of 21M ZEC has been issued, 81% of the cap.
Network security: the hashrate is 29.7 GSol/s, up 374% over five years and up 186% on the year. Block rewards run $1.8M a day — 1,503 ZEC of coinbase, of which 1.9 ZEC — 0.1% — is transaction fees rather than new issuance. Users paid $81.2k in fees over the 30 days to 24 October 2026 — up 25× over five years and up 194% on the year.
Against Bitcoin, ZEC changes hands at 0.01511 BTC — up 5.3% over 24 hours and down 20.8% over 30 days.
In dollars, over the last 24 hours ZEC is up 5.5% at $1,215.75, in a 24h range of $1,120.66–$1,222.44, a market cap of $20.7B on $618M of 24h trading volume.
Transactions are up 13% week-over-week (~9,345/day); shielded transactions are up to 53% of all activity (+2 pts week-over-week); the shielded pool gained 5,596 ZEC this week.
Transaction fees came to $16.2k over the last seven days, down 8% on the week before. On 24 October 2026 users paid $1.9k, roughly flat on the day.
Notable: Transaction spike — 20,042 txs on-chain, +9.1σ vs the 30-day norm of 7,773/day (24 October 2026); Fully-shielded transactions surge to 14,292 today (+13.8σ vs ~1,277/day).
The most-viewed charts over the last 7 days.
How many ZEC exist, and how fast new ones arrive.
What the market pays for ZEC, and how it tracks Bitcoin.
The core product — how much ZEC sits in shielded pools, and how fast it is being shielded.
How much the chain is actually used, and for what.
Who holds ZEC and for how long — the transparent side, where age is readable.
What it costs to attack the chain.
Leverage, positioning, and what it costs to hold either side.
Where ZEC trades, and how much of the market it is.
How ZEC moves between chains.