According to @ai_9684xtpa, ZEC fell back below USD 500, putting pressure on leveraged longs (source: @ai_9684xtpa). The largest ZEC long on Hyperliquid, address 0xcf9...95c0e, opened a 10x long on Nov 22 at an average entry of USD 574.864, now holding 20,386 ZEC worth about 9.79 million USD with an unrealized loss near 1.925 million USD and a peak drawdown above 2.42 million USD this morning, with no position reduction reported (source: @ai_9684xtpa; hyperbot.network/trader/0xcf90cfecf74e631feea816d02e757c0c8e895c0e). Traders can monitor this address on Hyperliquid to track positioning and potential liquidity impacts around the USD 500 level in ZEC derivatives (source: hyperbot.network/trader/0xcf90cfecf74e631feea816d02e757c0c8e895c0e).

According to @OnchainLens, a whale was completely liquidated on a ZEC long position as ZEC dropped, realizing a $1.59M loss. Source: @OnchainLens. According to @OnchainLens, the same wallet has lost a total of $2.39M across multiple positions and now holds $24K. Sources: @OnchainLens; CoinMarketMan Hypertracker wallet 0x9bf3ba9c1a41c78c424981ee7e12203347bf6cf9 app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x9bf3ba9c1a41c78c424981ee7e12203347bf6cf9.

According to @CoinMarketCap, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said the recent surge of enthusiasm for Zcash (ZEC) has "third-party candidate vibes" and risks splitting support away from Bitcoin (BTC) at a crucial moment, highlighting a potential shift in market support dynamics between BTC and ZEC that traders should watch (source: @CoinMarketCap on X, Nov 24, 2025).

According to the source, quantum computers threaten widely used public‑key cryptography, including RSA and ECC, which underpins Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures. Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography and https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/transactions.html Zcash’s protocol is designed to evolve via the ZIP process and regular Network Upgrades, demonstrated by cryptography changes across Sprout, Sapling, and Orchard, indicating the project can replace primitives when needed. Source: https://zips.z.cash/ and https://electriccoin.co/blog/sapling-network-upgrade/ and https://electriccoin.co/blog/nu5-mainnet-activation/ NIST has selected and is standardizing post‑quantum algorithms such as CRYSTALS‑Dilithium and Kyber, providing vetted options for blockchain projects planning migration or hybrid schemes rather than rushing untested changes. Source: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms and https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography For traders, monitor any Zcash ZIPs proposing PQ or hybrid signatures, official updates from Electric Coin Company and Zcash Foundation on migration tooling, and NIST PQC implementation timelines as potential catalysts for ZEC volatility and narrative. Source: https://zips.z.cash/ and https://electriccoin.co/blog/ and https://www.zfnd.org/blog/ and https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography

According to the source, Zcash developers are preparing for quantum risks by leveraging the protocol’s repeatable network upgrade process, demonstrated by NU5 in May 2022 which shipped Halo 2 and the Orchard shielded pool, showing the chain can change core cryptography through on-chain consensus (source: Electric Coin Company, 2022). Both BTC and ZEC currently depend on elliptic-curve cryptography that would be breakable by sufficiently large quantum computers, highlighting the need for migration paths and key-rotation tooling (source: NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography project, 2024; Bitcoin.org Developer Guide). NIST has standardized post-quantum signature families ML-DSA (CRYSTALS-Dilithium) and SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+), which are candidates for future blockchain integrations once performance and footprint constraints are evaluated (source: NIST PQC standards, 2024). Zcash’s ZIP governance process and active engineering by Electric Coin Company and the Zcash Foundation provide a mechanism to propose and deploy such primitives, while Bitcoin’s developer community has discussed PQ options on the bitcoin-dev mailing list without any PQ signature scheme adopted on mainnet to date (sources: Zcash ZIP repository; Zcash Foundation updates; bitcoin-dev mailing list). For trading, the most actionable signals are: the appearance of ZIPs proposing PQ signatures or key-rotation, ECC/ZF engineering updates announcing testnet deployments or audits, and release timelines similar to prior Zcash upgrades that preceded mainnet activations (sources: Zcash ZIP repository; Electric Coin Company engineering updates; Zcash Foundation engineering posts).

According to @EleanorTerrett, an X broadcast titled Crypto's Christmas Wish is Clarity | $ZEC's Wild November highlights regulatory clarity and ZEC’s volatile November as the core topics for market participants, source: @EleanorTerrett on X, Nov 21, 2025. The post directs viewers to the live broadcast for further details, signaling a focus on regulation-driven catalysts and ZEC trading conditions into year-end, source: @EleanorTerrett on X, Nov 21, 2025.

According to @OnchainLens, address cluster '0x7B7' was fully liquidated on ZEC short positions across four wallets, with cumulative realized losses exceeding USD 10.4M; source: Onchain Lens on X https://x.com/OnchainLens/status/1990597703680864707. The main wallet and three sub-accounts are verifiable on CoinMarketMan HyperTracker, which lists the liquidation history and PnL for 0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E, 0x26cc5b2b5c15b679cc042914bfa9194cf7851e43, 0xc07240cce22959af4df80b45ae77ba8b20b363c3, and 0xaafc72d5f002e0d61f22d95acadb7e469846e326; source: https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E, https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x26cc5b2b5c15b679cc042914bfa9194cf7851e43, https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0xc07240cce22959af4df80b45ae77ba8b20b363c3, https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0xaafc72d5f002e0d61f22d95acadb7e469846e326.

According to @OnchainLens, the on-chain gambler 0x7B7 was fully liquidated on ZEC long positions across four wallets with total realized losses exceeding $10.4 million, source x.com/OnchainLens/status/1990597703680864707. The identified wallets include the main address 0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E and sub-accounts 0x26cc5b2b5c15b679cc042914bfa9194cf7851e43, 0xc07240cce22959af4df80b45ae77ba8b20b363c3, and 0xaafc72d5f002e0d61f22d95acadb7e469846e326, with on-chain performance and liquidation traces viewable via CoinMarketMan Hypertracker, source app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E and app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x26cc5b2b5c15b679cc042914bfa9194cf7851e43 and app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0xc07240cce22959af4df80b45ae77ba8b20b363c3 and app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0xaafc72d5f002e0d61f22d95acadb7e469846e326. The liquidation event and loss figures are explicitly documented in the original disclosure by @OnchainLens and corroborated by the linked wallet dashboards, source x.com/OnchainLens/status/1990597703680864707 and app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, wallet 0x7b7 opened a 10x short on ZEC worth about $19.46M notional with an average entry near $666.83 roughly seven hours ago, source: @OnchainDataNerd on X. The trader currently shows about $1.67M in unrealized profit on the position, source: @OnchainDataNerd on X. This profit implies an estimated 8.6 percent move from the entry and a position size near 29.2k ZEC based on the shared notional and entry price, source: calculations from figures posted by @OnchainDataNerd on X. The on-chain reference provided is hypurrscan.io/address/0x7b7b908c076b9784487180de92e7161c2982734e for address 0x7b7, source: hypurrscan.io as cited by @OnchainDataNerd on X. For traders, the whale’s entry near 666.83 and the implied mark near 610 are immediate reference levels for ZEC perps liquidity and risk management, source: levels derived from figures shared by @OnchainDataNerd on X.

According to @OnchainLens, a brief price pump liquidated over $3 million across multiple short positions and forced the closure of the remaining shorts, based on their monitoring update on X dated Nov 18, 2025 (source: Onchain Lens on X). According to @OnchainLens, the same trader later opened 10x ZEC short positions across three wallets totaling $48.47 million notional with $3.36 million in unrealized profit, with activity visible at hyperbot.network/trader/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E, hyperbot.network/trader/0x26cc5b2b5c15b679cc042914bfa9194cf7851e43, and hyperbot.network/trader/0xc07240cce22959af4df80b45ae77ba8b20b363c3 (source: Onchain Lens on X; HyperBot dashboards).

According to Lookonchain, a trader was liquidated about 10 hours ago during a brief market rebound, losing over $3M. Source: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1990587873079496882. Lookonchain reports the same address has re-entered the market with a new 10x short totaling 31,698 ZEC, approximately $19.26M notional. Sources: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1990587873079496882 and position data at https://hyperdash.info/trader/0x7B7b908c076B9784487180dE92E7161c2982734E. Lookonchain explicitly warns against high-leverage trading based on this example. Source: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1990587873079496882.

According to @Excellion, retail investors seeking encrypted Bitcoin exposure should buy BTC on an exchange, choose Lightning Network as the withdrawal method, and receive funds in wallets such as Aqua, Bull Bitcoin, or Wallet of Satoshi, source: @Excellion on X, Nov 14, 2025. @Excellion states there is no need for Zcash (ZEC) for this use case, source: @Excellion on X, Nov 14, 2025.

According to @RhythmicAnalyst, Zcash (ZEC) is up roughly 6% today and is moving independently of Bitcoin (BTC), highlighting session-level divergence and relative strength versus BTC, source: @RhythmicAnalyst. This implies the ZEC/BTC pair is outperforming intraday on a relative basis, directly derived from the reported 6% rise and divergence from BTC, source: @RhythmicAnalyst.

According to @milesdeutscher, crypto privacy is set to be the most important crypto narrative over the next five years, with ZEC leading and up about 10x this year, source: @milesdeutscher, X, Nov 13, 2025. He states this is a structural trend rather than a short-term move and shares a thread detailing his full privacy thesis and the exact projects he is watching, source: @milesdeutscher, X, Nov 13, 2025. For traders, his thesis highlights ZEC as a sector leader and directs attention to privacy-coin watchlists for potential narrative-driven momentum and liquidity, source: @milesdeutscher, X, Nov 13, 2025.

According to @godbole17, Leap Therapeutics announced a $50 million purchase of Zcash (ZEC), with the post referencing on-chain researcher @ad1_onchain as the source; source: @godbole17 on X. Given the potentially market-moving nature of this claim, traders should treat it as unconfirmed until corroborated by official company communications or filings and monitor ZEC spot volumes, order-book depth, and derivatives funding for reaction while managing position size accordingly; source: @godbole17 on X.

According to the source, Arthur Hayes urged ZEC holders to remove coins from centralized exchanges in an X post on Nov 12, 2025 (source: X/@CryptoHayes). For trading, monitor potential ZEC exchange outflows on Glassnode or CryptoQuant, shifts in funding rates and open interest on Binance and Bybit, and any listing or wallet-status updates from major exchanges, as these can trigger liquidity shocks, wider spreads, and basis volatility in ZEC spot and perps (sources: Glassnode, CryptoQuant, Binance Derivatives metrics, Bybit Derivatives metrics, major exchange announcements pages). Given elevated counterparty risk, consider reducing leverage, hedging spot with perps or options, and tightening risk limits while tracking exchange-specific updates in real time (sources: Binance risk disclosures, Deribit options dashboard, major exchange announcement hubs).

According to @CoinMarketCap, Nasdaq-listed Leap Therapeutics will rebrand to Cypherpunk Technologies and become a Zcash (ZEC) treasury company backed by the Winklevoss Twins, with a stated goal to acquire at least 5% of all ZEC, source: @CoinMarketCap. For traders, a corporate plan to accumulate a fixed share of supply can tighten exchange float and affect spot liquidity and derivatives metrics around ZEC as execution progresses, a setup directly tied to the accumulation plan reported by @CoinMarketCap, source: @CoinMarketCap.

According to Trader_XO, ZEC (Zcash) will be his primary trading focus for the next few weeks, with an emphasis on ZEC contextual levels as part of his trading approach, source: https://x.com/Trader_XO/status/1988342176628044058. The post provides a timeframe of the next few weeks but does not disclose specific price levels or targets for ZEC, source: https://x.com/Trader_XO/status/1988342176628044058.

According to @f_forough, the Zcash community is supporting Code to Inspire with a donation drive where 1 ZEC funds one month of internet for 25 students and 2 ZEC reaches 50 students, with contributions directed via codetoinspire.org/donate-crypto; source: @f_forough on X, Nov 11, 2025; codetoinspire.org/donate-crypto. For traders tracking ZEC fundamentals, the stated unit-of-impact per ZEC provides a concrete benchmark to contextualize community-driven utility narratives when referencing the official donation channel; source: @f_forough on X, Nov 11, 2025; codetoinspire.org/donate-crypto.

According to @Trader_XO, the author is adding to Zcash (ZEC) short positions on any sharp rallies, indicating a sell-the-rip trading stance for near-term price spikes; source: X post on Nov 11, 2025, x.com/Trader_XO/status/1988160701685522798. According to @Trader_XO, no entry levels, position sizing, or risk parameters were disclosed, so this functions as a directional bias update rather than a full trade plan; source: X post on Nov 11, 2025, x.com/Trader_XO/status/1988160701685522798. According to @Trader_XO, the post references a prior update, reinforcing continuation of the same approach to fade ZEC strength; source: prior X post, x.com/Trader_XO/status/1988005479792988592.