Key Insights
- ECC unveils Q4 2025 roadmap with major Zcash privacy and wallet upgrades.
- ZEC price jumped from $50 to $420 amid rising shielded token supply.
- Grayscale’s Zcash Trust boosts institutional access to the privacy coin.
Electric Coin Co. (ECC), the team behind Zcash, has shared its roadmap for the last quarter of 2025.
The plan focuses on enhanced privacy, simplified wallet use, and improved fund security.
It comes as ZEC’s price and shielded supply rise, and as Grayscale expands support for the coin.
ECC Plans New Privacy Tools for Zcash Users
Electric Coin Co. has outlined new steps to make Zcash more private and secure.
The company stated that its primary objectives are to reduce technical issues, enhance privacy features in the Zashi wallet, and improve the management of developer funds.
Notably, a key update will introduce ephemeral addresses for every swap to ZEC, utilizing the NEAR Intents protocol.
This means each transaction will use a new temporary address, helping to hide user activity.
As noted, another update will create a new transparent address whenever funds are received, thereby limiting address reuse and enhancing user privacy.
ECC will also upgrade support for the Keystone hardware wallet.
Users will be able to resync their devices more easily and use Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH) multisig wallets.
The company plans to utilize a multisig wallet to manage Zcash developer funds securely.
It is worth noting that the new roadmap builds on earlier progress. In August, ECC launched a decentralized off-ramp for shielded ZEC, followed by a decentralized on-ramp called “Swaps” in early October.
Soon after, ECC turned off the Coinbase on-ramp because of a session-token rule it considered unfriendly to user privacy.
ECC stated that it will continue to adjust its work in response to changes in market conditions. The company’s focus remains on privacy, stability, and simple wallet use.
Privacy Coins Gain Attention as ZEC Price Jumps
Zcash’s new roadmap comes at a time when privacy coins are drawing more interest.
The amount of shielded ZEC held in the Orchard protocol, which is Zcash’s most recent privacy layer.
This has surpassed 4.1 million tokens, according to ZecHub data. Most of this growth started in mid-September.
During the same period, ZEC’s price climbed sharply. It now trades at about $420, compared to around $50 in mid-September.
The rise pushed Zcash’s total market value past that of Monero, another major privacy coin.
Across the privacy coin market, activity has also grown.
Data from CoinGecko shows that the sector’s total market value recently reached $25.2 billion, up 11.1% in one day. The 24-hour trading volume was around $3.4 billion.
Among leading privacy coins, ZEC gained 51%, DASH rose 72%, and RAIL jumped 87% over the past week.
These numbers reflect a broader market trend as investors shift back to privacy-based tokens.
Grayscale Expands Access to Zcash for Investors
Zcash is also gaining attention from traditional investors. Grayscale, a major digital asset manager, offers the Grayscale Zcash Trust under the ticker ZCSH.
The trust is the only public fund in the United States that gives exposure only to Zcash.
It allows investors to access ZEC through regular brokerage accounts without buying the coin directly.
Grayscale has described Zcash as a tool for private transactions on public blockchains.
The company’s support shows growing acceptance of privacy coins in the broader investment space.
While the trust carries risk, as with all cryptocurrency investments, its presence adds credibility and visibility to Zcash.
For ECC, this kind of institutional backing may bring more confidence to users and developers as it continues to roll out upgrades.
With new wallet tools, a growing market for privacy tokens, and stronger institutional support, Zcash could be set for another major price move.
The upcoming upgrades are expected to improve how users protect their data and interact with the network, helping Zcash remain one of the top privacy coins in the market.
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