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Zcash ZEC

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Price History

The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.

$20.87$1,550$3,080$4,609
2021-102026-09 · $1,468

Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $732.65 and $2,943; nine in ten between $467.87 and $4,609.

Tested against this asset’s own history: across 92 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 74% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-95.9%-63.9%-32.0%0.0%
2017-112026-09 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −96%, peaking Dec 2017 and bottoming Jun 2024 — 96 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$10,700
Value today
$271,631
Return
+2438.6%
Months invested
107

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $12,581 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +2059.0%.

Lump sum instead — $10,700 all at once in Nov 2017: $50,936 (+376.0%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Aug 2026): $273.25 on $200 invested (+36.6%).

Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2017-11: +2438.6%

About Zcash

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses trustless zero-knowledge proofs to enable fully encrypted transactions while maintaining blockchain transparency and security. It was the first cryptocurrency to implement zero-knowledge encryption for private peer-to-peer payments, addressing the fundamental privacy gap in traditional cryptocurrencies that expose transaction details publicly. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under layer 1, with a market cap of about $21.8B.

It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: regulatory (5.0/5) and market / volatility (4.0/5).

Scoring well: governance / team at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: supply & concentration. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(2.9/5)85% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.0/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)4/5139
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/595.9
  • Beta vs BTC3/51.1
Liquidity2.3/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap4/51.7
  • Top exchange % of volume2/523.9
  • Significant listings1/523.0
Supply & Concentrationunrated · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %not yet researched
Smart Contract / Technical1.7/5 · weight 12%
  • Audit status3/5audited minor or stale
  • Admin key / upgradeability1/5none immutable
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)1/590.0
Custody / Bridge1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliance1/5no bridge dependency
Governance / Team1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Team1/5doxxed track record
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatory5.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profile5/5active scrutiny or enforcement
Systemic / Correlation3.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC3/50.59

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