{"id":595901,"date":"2026-05-08T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/zcash-gains-70-in-a-week-amid-growing-interest-in-crypto-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:53:55","slug":"zcash-gains-70-in-a-week-amid-growing-interest-in-crypto-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/zcash-gains-70-in-a-week-amid-growing-interest-in-crypto-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zcash gains 70% in a week amid growing interest in crypto privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zcash<\/p>\n

Swyftx\u2019s Pav Hundal says Zcash is surging amid concerns about artificial intelligence, quantum computing and financial surveillance.<\/p>\n

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) has spiked by more than 70% over the past week as crypto traders have been paying closer attention to privacy-focused projects.<\/p>\n

Zcash traded at about $346 on Friday, May 1, before hitting a seven-day peak of $593.86 on Wednesday. It has since settled at around $570 as of Friday, according<\/a> to CoinGecko.<\/p>\n

Pav Hundal, lead market analyst at crypto exchange Swyftx, told Cointelegraph that traders have begun paying closer attention to privacy projects \u201camid broader concerns about the impact of AI, quantum computing and financial surveillance on crypto.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Swyftx\u2019s Pav Hundal says Zcash is surging amid concerns about artificial intelligence, quantum computing and financial surveillance. Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) has spiked by more than 70% over the past week as crypto traders have been paying closer attention to privacy-focused projects. Zcash traded at about $346 on Friday, May 1, before hitting a seven-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}