According to @santimentfeed, Zcash ZEC surged roughly 15x beginning in October and, despite a retrace, remains about 969 percent higher over the four months since @Xfinancebull’s post, source: @santimentfeed on X, Jan 9, 2026. KOLs_Tracker noted ZEC cooled after a meteoric run but showed sustained strength versus BTC over recent months, underscoring the timing of the early bullish call, source: KOLs_Tracker on X as cited by @santimentfeed, Jan 9, 2026. Santiment highlighted its Sanitizer leaderboard to objectively measure influencer accuracy, offering traders a data-backed way to validate KOL signals before positioning in ZEC and privacy coins, source: @santimentfeed on X, Jan 9, 2026.