February 24 News: Privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) has recently been under continuous pressure, with a total decline of over 20% in the past 7 days. As of press time, Zcash is trading at approximately $231, down 28% from this month’s high and more than 50% from the beginning of the year. Against the backdrop of waning risk appetite in the crypto market, combined with technical and fundamental factors, market participants remain cautious about ZEC’s future trajectory.
Fundamentally, the Electric Coin Company development team previously resigned collectively due to governance disputes with the non-profit organization Bootstrap. Although the event did not cause a blockchain fork and ZEC’s protocol layer operation was not directly impacted, organizational uncertainty has weakened investor confidence in the ecosystem’s long-term development.
Derivatives market data also remains weak. According to CoinGlass, the open interest in ZEC futures has fallen to about $306 million, only a quarter of the level at the beginning of January, indicating significant deleveraging. In an environment where macroeconomic and geopolitical risks intertwine, volatility in risk assets has increased. Bitcoin’s breach of key support levels triggered chain reactions of selling, further amplifying Zcash’s decline.
From a technical analysis perspective, Zcash’s daily chart has broken below major moving averages, with the 50-day and 200-day moving averages approaching a “death cross,” which is often seen as a mid-term bearish signal. Additionally, the price has fallen below the Murrey Math ultimate support line, indicating weakening upward momentum. If selling pressure continues, the $200 psychological level may become the next key support, also close to the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level. Currently trading around $233, this suggests a potential retracement of approximately 14%.
In the context of increasing competition within the privacy coin sector and tightening market liquidity, Zcash’s price movement will depend on whether technical support can hold and whether clear solutions emerge for governance issues.
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