$XRP Coincidence? By adopting @BCBacker Fibo style, if we take the top of the previous bull market as the Fib0.236, the following bull market always hit Fib1.618. Henceforth, this bull market will hit $21.5.
Zcash has unparalleled cryptographers, security engineers, and security researchers. And the community is heavily focused on continuous improvement and hardening the network. That's why it engages world class security researchers to look for bugs. And that's why the recent potential exploit was found. It wasn't by accident and it's a vote of confidence, not a cause for alarm. When it comes to any L1, there will be bugs. What's important is that there are world class researchers focused on hardening the network and staying ahead of the bad guys. This has always been and always will be the dynamic of building software that is secure. Onward.
Tried to figure out Crosslink. The TLDR for ZEC:
- you'll be able to stake ZEC
- you'll earn yield while keeping your privacy
- your funds stay liquid, you can unstake in about a week
- ZEC becomes a working asset, not just a store
Crosslink adds Proof-of-Stake to Zcash without removing Proof-of-Work. The miners stay. The network adds a second layer of security and a new way for holders to participate. If you hold ZEC, you can lock some of it and assign it to a validator (called a "finalizer"). They confirm blocks. You earn a share of new ZEC issuance for delegating to them.
Where the yield comes from: every Zcash block creates new ZEC. Today miners get 80% of it. After Crosslink, roughly 40% reroutes to stakers. The network pays you in ZEC for helping secure it. The same way Ethereum or Solana pays validators, just new for Zcash.
What makes it different: privacy. On other chains, your stake amount and your validator choice are public. On Zcash, stakes are denominated in fixed buckets, 1, 10, or 100 ZEC, so your specific position cannot be tracked. The transactions live inside Zcash's shielded pool. You earn yield without exposing your wallet history.
This unlocks something no privacy chain has had before: a native, private, yield-bearing asset. Not a wrapped version. Not a bridge-out-and-restake hack. ZEC, staking on its own chain, with shielding intact.
Bonus: stronger finality. Once stakers finalize a block, it cannot be reversed, even if miners try a 51% attack. This makes ZEC stronger collateral for bridges and easier to list on exchanges.
Status: prototype on github, incentivized testnet running.
ZEC stops being a savings account and becomes infrastructure. Will you stake?