To be honest, I haven’t been slacking on checking ZEC’s chart these past couple of days.

Just now, I glanced at it—the price went straight up to $323, and it’s up more than 23% in the last 24 hours. A couple of days ago I told my friend to hold and not move, and today he messaged me saying, “You really called it right.”

Actually, it wasn’t luck. If you watch this coin every day, you can’t help but spot a few patterns.

Let’s start with the technicals. On the 4-hour chart, the MA7 and MA25 have already turned upward, and the MACD’s DIF line has been staying above the DEA. The red histogram bars keep getting bigger and bigger—the kind of structure I’ve seen too many times: someone gradually accumulating at the bottom, waiting for a reason to light the fuse.

And that reason really did come.

Foundry, one of the world’s largest mining pools, announced that it supports Zcash. This signal isn’t small. In the past, institutions were dodging privacy coins as far as they could, but now the mining pool itself is stepping in to integrate it. That suggests ZEC’s hash rate and ecosystem may be about to jump to the next level. The market reacted fast too—once the news dropped, buy orders were clearly stronger.

There’s another point that many people might not have noticed. The Zcash team is working on post-quantum cryptography—that’s specifically meant to prevent future quantum computers from cracking it. While other coins are still just painting a pie in the sky, ZEC has already produced something. This kind of long-term story usually isn’t brought up in everyday chat, but once the market moves, it will be repriced.

Of course, with such a sharp rally, the RSI is already in the overbought zone. In the short term, there will definitely be people taking profits, and a pullback of three to five points is totally normal. Also, there have been two camps in the community arguing nonstop: one side thinks privacy coins face heavy regulatory pressure and have no future in the long run; the other side believes this move is a fundamental reversal.

My stance is simple: don’t chase in the short term—wait until the pullback stabilizes before looking again. For the mid- to long-term, if the logic hasn’t changed, then hold.

Anyway, I watch its volume, price, and posts every day, and it feels like this surge doesn’t look like a one-day trip. $ZEC ‌#加密市场回升