As of 12 September 2026, one ZEC buys 0.01465 BTC — up 5.2× over five years, up 34× on the year and up 125% over three months. Five years ago it bought 0.002840 BTC.
In dollars that is $1,132.08 a coin (up 23× on the year and up 169% over three months), a market cap of $19.2B — 1.2% of Bitcoin's. Spot sits 3.6× above the realized price of $314 — the average price at which a ZEC last crossed a pool boundary — so the typical coin is held at a gain.
Behind it: 28.9% of all ZEC — 4.90M ZEC, $5.5B — sits in shielded pools, against 23.3% a year ago and 7.6% five years ago. Ironwood, the current shielded pool, holds 3.94M ZEC, with 419k ZEC still in Orchard, its predecessor, crossing the turnstile. Transactions average 10,678 a day (up 306% on the year and up 128% over three months), of which 5,272 — 49% — are shielded, against 20% a year ago. Transparent addresses are being paid for the first time at 3,402 a day (up 5.6× on the year and up 127% over three months), though an address is not a person — wallets derive a fresh one per payment received. A spot ETF held 387k ZEC ($303M) at its last disclosure, 26 August 2026. 16.9M of 21M ZEC has been issued, 81% of the cap.
Network security: the hashrate is 26.2 GSol/s, up 399% over five years and up 239% on the year. Block rewards run $1.7M a day — 1,512 ZEC of coinbase, of which 3.0 ZEC — 0.2% — is transaction fees rather than new issuance.
Against Bitcoin, ZEC changes hands at 0.01465 BTC — up 5.9% over 24 hours and up 90.0% over 30 days.
In dollars, over the last 24 hours ZEC is up 6.6% at $1,132.08, in a 24h range of $1,064.12–$1,212.57, a market cap of $19.2B on $1.7B of 24h trading volume.
Shielded transactions are down to 49% of all activity (-6 pts week-over-week); the shielded pool gained 32,011 ZEC this week.
Notable: ZEC ▲ 8.0% today to $1,162.79 (from $1,076.79) (11 September 2026); ZEC/BTC ▲ 6.2% today to 0.01594 BTC (from 0.01501 BTC).
The most-viewed charts over the last 7 days.
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's being shielded.
Is the chain actually being transacted on?
How people move in and out of ZEC across other chains.
Funding, volume and open interest on the ZEC and BTC perpetual-swap markets.
ZEC spot volume by exchange and its share of total market volume, plus NEAR swap intensity per dollar of market cap.
Holder conviction, coin scarcity, and chain security.