Zcash remains the single best-performing major cryptocurrency of the month, surging 10.3% to $1,521.04 today and now up a striking 42.3% over the past week alone, far outpacing every other large-cap token in Friday's broad market rally. The move extends a rally that began with Grayscale's late-August ETF conversion and accelerated dramatically after Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang disclosed his firm's ZEC holdings earlier this week, triggering a wave of institutional-grade buying pressure on top of an already strong privacy-coin narrative. Zcash's continued outperformance even during a week dominated by Fed policy, failed legislation, and new CFTC rulemaking suggests its rally has developed genuine independent momentum that isn't purely dependent on broader market sentiment.

With privacy coins now the only major crypto sector trading meaningfully above October 2025 levels, Zcash's 42.3% weekly gain has made it the standout trade of the entire September news cycle.
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