Zcash ZEC

crypto

Price History

2017-11 · DCA start$308.49

Time underwater

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

2017-112026-08 · -13.7%

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

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $10,600
Value today: $90,602
Return: +754.7%
Months invested: 106

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $12,432 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +628.8%.

Lump sum instead — $10,600 all at once in Nov 2017: $16,829 (+58.8%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (May 2026): $416.19 on $400 invested (+4.0%).

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.

	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2017-11: +754.7%

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 $14.5B.

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)4/5133
Max drawdown from ATH5/595.9
Beta vs BTC3/51.0

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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