{"id":12857,"date":"2026-09-05T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:41:14","slug":"zcash-breaks-1000-as-its-etf-swells-past-400-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=12857","title":{"rendered":"Zcash breaks $1,000 as its ETF swells past $400 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale\u2019s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut.<\/p>\n

ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours and nearly 100% over the past month.<\/p>\n

The move lifted ZCSH\u2019s assets to $414.7 million as of Sept. 3, compared with about $304.6 million when the fund began trading on NYSE Arca on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n

ZCSH inherited assets from the Grayscale Zcash Trust, and the sharp appreciation in ZEC accounts for much of the increase.<\/p>\n

Still, the fund\u2019s ZEC holdings rose from 387,849 at launch to 428,613 by Sept. 3, while shares outstanding increased to 5.35 million.<\/p>\n

The Sept. 4 breakout came as Bitcoin surpassed $82,000 and ETH reclaimed $2,500, but Zcash\u2019s move was considerably larger. Roughly $40 million of ZEC shorts were liquidated in 24 hours, adding fuel to a rally that had already gathered momentum before the latest market-wide advance.<\/p>\n

Leverage has expanded with the price. CoinGlass data showed that Zcash futures open interest crossed $2 billion for the first time, while 24-hour futures volume climbed above $6 billion for the first time since mid-August.<\/p>\n

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Chart shows Zcash open interest surging above $2 billion as ZEC\u2019s price approaches $900 in early September. Source: CoinGlass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The combination suggests traders are committing substantially more capital to ZEC derivatives as the token tests levels it has not sustained in years.<\/p>\n

The scale of the repricing is particularly stark over a longer horizon. ZEC was trading around $40 a year ago and has now returned to the top 10 largest cryptos by market cap for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n

That ascent has also brought increasingly aggressive forecasts. Cryptographer Arjun Khemani said characterizing the token’s rally solely as a privacy-coin understates the case being made for Zcash.<\/p>\n

He pointed to its fixed 21 million supply, Bitcoin-like emissions schedule, decade of distribution, work on quantum recoverability, plans for substantially higher transaction throughput and efforts to formally verify its shielded pool against undetectable inflation bugs.<\/p>\n

Khemani said that \u201cprivacy is just one property of Zcash,\u201d arguing that the larger bet is whether ZEC can develop into a form of sovereign money.<\/p>\n

Grayscale sees AI opening a crack in Bitcoin\u2019s dominance<\/h2>\n

The price move has revived a broader question around Zcash: whether its latest gains can translate into a lasting challenge to Bitcoin\u2019s dominance of the digital-currency market.<\/p>\n