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Privacy coins and privacy tech — Monero, Zcash and Dash, plus the delistings and regulation around them.

Kraken: the question they had to withdraw
Kraken’s co-CEO drew the line himself: “Where your money came from is a fair question. What you do with it after it leaves is not.”
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- 1THORChain privacy coin integration
THORChain is rolling out native privacy coin swap support for Monero and Zcash, driving price rallies across RUNE and XMR.
Latest: THORChain deploys v3.20 — native XMR/ZEC swap support (no wrapped tokens, no accounts), starting shallow on protocol-owned liquidity — while restoring vault rotation after May's $10.7M exploit
2 entriesPrivacy - 2Zano HF6 privacy expansion
Zano is rolling out Hard Fork 6, expanding its privacy coin ecosystem through cross-chain bridges, DEX integration, EVM smart contracts, and broader user onboarding.
Latest: Zano Hard Fork 6 targets August 26, unlocking cross-chain interoperability for the privacy coin
2 entriesPrivacy - 3Zcash Orchard bug crisis
A critical counterfeit-minting flaw in Zcash's Orchard shielded pool is driving exchange outflows, regulatory scrutiny, and emergency patching amid the Ironwood upgrade.
Latest: Pre-disclosure trading around Orchard vulnerability draws regulatory scrutiny for potential insider activity
6 entriesPrivacy - 4Privacy coin global crackdown
Regulators worldwide are systematically banning privacy coins and anonymous crypto tools, forcing exchange delistings and reshaping the market.
Latest: China bans privacy coins and mixers, extending global regulatory crackdown on anonymous crypto tools
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Kraken: the question they had to withdraw
Kraken’s co-CEO drew the line himself: “Where your money came from is a fair question. What you do with it after it leaves is not.”
Read the take →Shielded Pool: the privacy worked, just not for who you'd hope
Here's the uncomfortable fact for anyone who holds Zcash on principle: the first big public test of its newest shielded pool isn't a dissident or a journalist hiding a payment.…
Read the take →Zano: a month erased, because nobody can prove a day would do
Zano didn't roll back a day. It rolled back a month.
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- 2026-10-28Verified · 28 Oct 2026
Zcash’s Funding Fight
Zcash’s developer-funding dispute widened, per cryptoslate: co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending Zcash Community Grants’ automatic 8% block-reward allocation — ZCG’s treasury is put at roughly $125M…
- 2026-10-25TakeVerified · 25 Oct 2026
Kraken Withdraws the Monero Question
Kraken’s co-CEO drew the line himself: “Where your money came from is a fair question. What you do with it after it leaves is not.”
- 2026-10-16Verified · 16 Oct 2026
Russia Closes the Self-Custody Exit
Bank of Russia guidance published 12 October says direct crypto trades between individuals remain legal only until 1 July 2027, under the digital-currency law in force since September. Transfers from…
- 2026-10-07Verified · 7 Oct 2026
Winklevoss Files Spot Zcash ETF
The Winklevoss twins filed for WINK, a spot Zcash ETF seeking Nasdaq listing with a reported $100 million anchor investment and Gemini as custodian, per Cointelegraph and Decrypt. Coverage puts the…
- 2026-10-01TakeVerified · 1 Oct 2026
Bitget Hack Funds Enter Zcash
Here's the uncomfortable fact for anyone who holds Zcash on principle: the first big public test of its newest shielded pool isn't a dissident or a journalist hiding a payment. It's the Bitget…
- 2026-09-28TakeVerified · 28 Sept 2026
Zano Erases a Month of History
Zano didn't roll back a day. It rolled back a month.
- 2026-09-27TakeVerified · 27 Sept 2026
Bitcoin Eyes Zcash-Style Privacy
The clever bit in this proposal is also the scary bit.
- 2026-09-26TakeVerified · 26 Sept 2026
Zano Halts Over Inflation Bug
A privacy coin sells you two things: no one can see your money, and no one can quietly print more of it.
- 2026-09-18TakeVerified · 18 Sept 2026
Zcash Hits Decade High as NU7 Passes
Zcash holders just voted on the network's future. They chose no change.
- 2026-09-13TakeVerified · 13 Sept 2026
Revolut Leaked the Compliance File
Every compliant crypto company keeps a file on you.
- 2026-09-08TakeVerified · 8 Sept 2026
Paper Zcash Piles Up on Solana
The number everyone is cheering is $20 billion.
- 2026-08-27TakeVerified · 27 Aug 2026
Zano Hard Fork 6 Now Live
The upgrade nobody outside crypto will notice is the one that matters most.
- 2026-08-26Verified · 26 Aug 2026
THORChain Ships Monero and Zcash Swaps
THORChain deployed version 3.20, which the project says enables native swaps of Monero and Zcash against Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins — no wrapped tokens, accounts or custodians — per its press…
- 2026-08-26TakeVerified · 26 Aug 2026
First US Privacy-Coin ETF Trades
Grayscale's founder Barry Silbert says if you're going to gamble, "the best choice is to buy ZEC" — and the fund is reportedly putting its entire first-year management fee toward promoting the coin,…
- 2026-08-25TakeVerified · 25 Aug 2026
Zcash Holders Vote in Private
The rally gets the headlines. The vote is the real story.
- 2026-08-21Verified · 21 Aug 2026
Grayscale Files to Convert Its Zcash Trust
Grayscale filed a fourth amended registration statement on August 18 to convert its Zcash Trust into an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH, which would be the first US…
- 2026-08-19TakeVerified · 19 Aug 2026
$700 to Ukraine. Binance Sent Russia the File.
A Russian IT worker sent about $700 — the price of a phone — to Ukrainian fundraisers. Binance sent Russian investigators his transaction history, his address, his phone number and copies of his…
- 2026-08-19Verified · 19 Aug 2026
One Company Now Mines 18% of Zcash
Cypherpunk Technologies launched Cypherpunk Mining on Tuesday, acquiring 4,902 Zcash mining machines from a Winklevoss Capital affiliate in a $33.33 million all-equity deal — paid via a warrant for…
- 2026-08-13Verified · 13 Aug 2026
Circle-Backed Privacy Stablecoin Coming
Miden, the zero-knowledge blockchain spun out of Polygon, announced USDCx — a stablecoin issued natively on its network, backed 1:1 by USDC held in Circle's xReserve smart contract. Transactions…
- 2026-08-07Verified · 7 Aug 2026
A Third of Zcash's Crowd Has Crossed
More than 800,000 ZEC crossed into Zcash's new Ironwood shielded pool over the past week, per Messari, with live migration dashboards showing about 1.33 million ZEC now in Ironwood — roughly a third…
- 2026-07-31TakeVerified · 31 Jul 2026
Gemini Opens Ironwood Withdrawals
When Ironwood sealed Zcash's old privacy pool last week, the replacement opened empty. I wrote then that privacy is a crowd you rebuild. Three days in, the rebuild stands at roughly 40,000 coins,…
- 2026-07-29TakeVerified · 29 Jul 2026
Zcash Seals Its Vault, Starts Over
Ironwood is the fix, and it's carefully scoped. Seal the old pool. Open a new one, its math machine-checked — formally proven incapable of the same class of bug. Then make every coin exit the old…
- 2026-07-25Unverified — not yet reviewed
State Dept Adopts Bitcoin in Policy
The US State Department embedded Bitcoin and digital privacy tools into formal foreign policy through a new Freedom Tech Excellence Program, with the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir, and Anduril…
- 2026-07-25Unverified — not yet reviewed
FBI De-Anonymises Monero User Via OSINT
The FBI identified the funder of Steam malware by combining Google cookie data, approximately 500 food delivery orders, and a Monero seed phrase recovered during investigation, demonstrating law…


