ZCASH: Is This a Good Place To Load Up or Is It Going Lower?

While most altcoins are still limping from the sharp October sell-off, Zcash (ZEC) has done the opposite. Yet it can actually reach the $2,000 or the fabulous $50,000 that the Zcash community has predicted the privacy coin could reach in the next decade.

Despite the hype, critics say no:

• ZEC has been in existence for eight years
• It basically goes nowhere
• People start selling it about a month or two ago as if it were new
• Gives great pump

Zcash has surged nearly +74% in the past week and +639.1% in the past year, demonstrating rare strength in a market dominated by liquidations and disheartened traders.

Today, let’s take a look at whether it could end the year strong and possibly become a top ten coin again:

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Can Whale Accumulation and Retail Inflows Drive Zcash Rally?

Bitcoin is http

Zcash is https

— Thor Torrens (@ThorTorrens) October 12, 2025

According to data from TradingView, Zcash’s Money Flow Index (MFI) rose above 95, signaling persistent buying even as broader markets cooled. The most puzzling thing about Zcash this time is that Chaikin Money Flow (CMF), often used to evaluate institutional participation, remains positive around 0.25, suggesting that Whales are still accumulating rather than exiting positions.

“Both institutional and retail activity remained strong, two segments that usually move in opposite directions during slumps,” one analyst noted.

Right now the thesis in play for Zcash is that if just 10% of offshore wealth ends up in privacy coins, a ZEC could be worth $62,893 per coin.

It might sound hopeful, but in a world where cash is vanishing, social credit scores are around the corner, and digital privacy is as ubiquitous as a $2 bill, Zcash has a strong use case. Can it reach 60 thousand dollars? Well, here’s the graph:

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Zcash technicians report a golden cross and a bullish reversal

However, not everything in the ZEC world is risk-free. Data from Coinglass shows that long leverage on Bybit’s ZEC/USDT pair now stands at around $21.5 million, compared to just $3.4 million for shorts. This imbalance means that if prices fall towards $178, overextended long positions could trigger another cascade of liquidations.

If this happened, even a small fix could turn into a temporary backwash.

Meanwhile, Zcash is showing all the signs of a market wanting a higher position. The 20-day moving average has surpassed the 200-day moving average, a textbook golden cross. The price action is wrapping inside an ascending triangle, anchored near $287 with solid support at $251.

The RSI is at 62.8, slightly below overbought and the widening Bollinger bands suggests that volatility is slowly returning. Structurally, ZEC’s chart looks clean. An inverse head and shoulders pattern has completed and the neckline at $272 has become support.

On-Chain Metrics Reinforce Zcash’s Strength: Should You Buy Now?

Chain tightening and institutional accumulation give Zcash a strong narrative ahead of the fourth quarter. The question now is whether leveraged traders will be able to sustain or sabotage the trend.

In short, Zcash has very good reasons to be the new silver over Bitcoin gold: 1) It has a fixed supply, 2) Better privacy than BTC, 3) A strong and incredibly intelligent community that sees utility in privacy. The jury will be out on whether it will ever reach $60,000, but this thing has room to run.

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