Zec Stats

Zcash: the five-year view As of 26 October 2026, one ZEC buys 0.01518 BTC — up 6.0× over five years, up 5.3× on the year and up 103% over three months. Five years ago it bought 0.002520 BTC. In dollars that is $1,216.51 a coin (up 274% on the year and up 155% over three months), a market cap of $20.7B — 1.3% of Bitcoin's. Spot sits 3.3× above the realized price of $372 — the average price at which a ZEC last crossed a pool boundary — so the typical coin is held at a gain. Behind it: 29.2% of all ZEC — 4.96M ZEC, $6.0B — sits in shielded pools, against 30.0% a year ago and 7.8% five years ago. Ironwood, the current shielded pool, holds 4.17M ZEC, with 346k ZEC still in Orchard, its predecessor, crossing the turnstile. Transactions average 11,171 a day (up 76% on the year and up 183% over three months), of which 6,859 — 61% — are shielded, against 25% a year ago. Transparent addresses are being paid for the first time at 1,960 a day (down 25% on the year and up 111% over three months). An address is not a person: wallets derive a fresh one per payment received. 17.0M of 21M ZEC has been issued, 81% of the cap. Network security: the hashrate is 30.8 GSol/s, up 393% over five years and up 197% on the year. Block rewards run $1.8M a day — 1,502 ZEC of coinbase, of which 1.9 ZEC — 0.1% — is transaction fees rather than new issuance. Users paid $79.8k in fees over the 30 days to 25 October 2026 — up 25× over five years and up 163% on the year.

About 756 days to Zcash's next halving, at block 4,406,400. The block reward drops to 0.78125 ZEC. ⏳ Each halving cuts new issuance in half on a date set by block height, so the supply arriving on the market slows on a schedule anyone can check.

Zcash, the last 24 hours (30 October 2026) Against Bitcoin, ZEC changes hands at 0.01600 BTC — up 2.7% over 24 hours and down 5.6% over 30 days. In dollars, over the last 24 hours ZEC is up 0.1% at $1,246.83, in a 24h range of $1,195.02–$1,391.07, a market cap of $21.2B on $1.5B of 24h trading volume. Transactions are up 64% week-over-week (~12,336/day); shielded transactions are up to 65% of all activity (+23 pts week-over-week); the shielded pool shed 2,831 ZEC this week. Transaction fees came to $14.9k over the last seven days, down 10% on the week before. On 29 October 2026 users paid $2.4k, up 7% on the day. Notable: All-time high: 32.34 GH/s network hashrate — previous record 31.77 GH/s (27 October 2026); This week in ZEC: price ▲ 6.7% to $1,229.92, hashrate ▼ 2.5% to 30.98 GH/s, shielded pool ▼ 3,872 ZEC (29.1% of supply). The chain mined 1,162 blocks against the 1,152 expected, right on the 75-second target. Half came within 50s of the one before; the longest wait was 10m 53s.