ZEC Price Third Best Performer in Top 100, Privacy Coin Season Back?

Zcash ($ZEC), a veteran cypherpunk cryptocurrency and key asset of the 2025 "privacy season," is back to surging. Together with prominent privacy coin Monero ($XMR), they outperform all competitors in the top 100 cryptocurrencies ranking.

Zcash ($ZEC) price jumps by 7.3% on anemic market, Monero ($XMR) follows

Today, Nov. 13, 2025, the overall cryptocurrency market benchmark is down by 1.7%. Meanwhile, the largest privacy cryptos are outperforming all rivals. Zcash ($ZEC), the fastest-growing privacy-centric asset of 2025, is up by 7.3% overnight.

After this growth, Zcash ($ZEC) jumped over $500, a psychologically significant level. Zcash's ($ZEC) aggregated capitalization almost touched $8.8 billion. Zcash ($ZEC) became the 26th largest altcoin by market cap.

Monero ($XMR), the most popular privacy cryptocurrency, is also on the top performers' list today. In 24 hours, Monero ($XMR) added 2.5% and exceeded $7.1 billion by market cap.

The segment of privacy coins overall is surging by 21.1% on the 24-hour time frame. The biggest share of this growth is associated with small-cap cryptocurrencies.

At the same time, all large-caps are decreasing today. Bitcoin (BTC), the first cryptocurrency, dropped below $103,000 despite the ending of the government shutdown in the U.S.

First Zcash ($ZEC) treasury company backed by Winklevoss Twins

Ethereum (ETH), down by 3.9% in 24 hours, is trading below $3,500 again. BNB, Solana (SOL), Tron (TRX), and Dogecoin (DOGE) are also in red today.

As covered by U.Today previously, Zcash ($ZEC) is in the center of an unexpected "privacy coins rally" that is ongoing in Q4, 2025. Together with Monero ($XMR), Railgun (RAIL) and Tornado Cash (TORN), $ZEC is rocketing. The $ZEC price surged tenfold in two months.

Yesterday, Nasdaq-listed penny stock Leap Therapeutics rebranded to Cypherpunk Technologies and announced the pivot to Zcash ($ZEC) treasury company strategy.

The cancer drug manufacturer changed its focus following a $59 million investing round led by Winklevoss Capital in early October.