Key Highlights:
- Zcash (ZEC) price up by more than 10% today, November 13, 2025 as Cypherpunk Technologies buys $50M in ZEC.
- ZEC breaks key resistance.
- Privacy demand rises amid regulatory uncertainty.
The privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) is again making it to the headlines as it experiences a great surge in the last 24 hours. There are several reasons due to which the price of the token rose after falling below the $500 mark on November 11, 2025. There has been a $50 million corporate buy-in, a significant technical breakout and a renewed invest interest due to which the price of the token has surged.
At press time, the price of the token stands at $519.73 with an uptick of 12.15% in the last 24 hours as per CoinMarketCap.
Corporate Treasury Move Signals Growing Institutional Confidence
On November 12, Leap Therapeutics, a biotech company that is listed on Nasdaq, announced its decision to rebrand itself to Cypherpunk Technologies and that it had allocated $50 million of its treasury to acquiring Zcash. This strategic move included purchasing approximately 203,775 ZEC tokens, which mimics the treasury allocation approach made famous by MicroStrategy with Bitcoin.
This adoption represents a turning point for ZEC, as at this time, public records show only one clear example of a company (Cypherpunk Technologies) using Zcash (ZEC) as a treasury asset. As soon as this announcement was made public, Cypherpunk’s stock was up by 170%. This number indicates the investor optimism about cryptocurrency integration in corporate treasury strategies and specifically around privacy tokens and technology.
The $50 million purchase significantly reduces Zcash’s circulating supply, which is around 16.3 million tokens, increasing scarcity of the token within the market and eventually increasing the price of the token.
The investors should be on a lookout and should track Cypherpunk’s upcoming SEC filing, as any move to increase their ZEC holdings beyond the initial 5% of total token supply could further fuel market enthusiasm.
Technical Breakout Supports Near-Term Upside
Apart from this corporate buying, ZEC has technically broken key resistance levels critical for sustained upward momentum. In the past 24 hours, Zcash has breached the $480-$525 zone which aligns with the Fibonacci retracement resistance levels, which marks an upside technical signal.
The 7-day simple moving average (SMA) now acts as a dynamic support at around $552, while Relative Strength Index (RSI) at 60.11 indicates there is still some room for the appreciation of the price before hitting an overbought situation.
Trading volume adds more detail to the technical outlook. Even though the price of the token has increased, Zcash’s 24-hour trading volume has dropped by almost 18%. This indicates that some traders may be taking profits or are just hesitant to jump in after the recent rally.
Privacy Coin Rotation Amid Regulatory Uncertainty Revives Demand
The third major factor that is driving Zcash’s rally is the renewed interest in privacy coins, especially as regulatory uncertainty grows in the U.S. With weak economic data and the impact of government shutdowns, investors are turning to cryptos that seem more resistant to surveillance and censorship.
Arthur Hayes with his recent post on X also endorsed the token. In the post, he urged holders to move their ZEC coins off of centralized exchanges (CEX) and shield them for privacy. This means transferring ZEC to a self-custodial wallet and using its shielded transaction feature (hides the sender, receiver and the transaction amount).
There has been an increase in institutional interest too. Grayscale’s Zcash Trust now manages somewhere around $136 million in assets, showing growing confidence in ZEC. Shielded transactions have also climbed to about 30% of total supply, according to the Electric Coin Company, which helps limit the amount of ZEC publicly available for sale and supports the price.
Another thing that the investors should watch out for are the updates on the EU’s MiCA framework, set to take effect in 2027, any relaxation of privacy coin rules could give Zcash a great push.
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