Zcash ($ZEC) has fallen roughly 60% from its November 2025 excessive, extending a multi-month slide that has reversed a lot of the asset’s This autumn features.
The privacy-focused coin, which was the top-performing large-cap crypto asset of 2025, started its downward pattern in December, shortly after the Winklevoss-backed Zcash treasury firm Cypherpunk Applied sciences final disclosed a $ZEC buy, its third since launching.
Cypherpunk, which launched in November as a Zcash-focused treasury firm, final reported shopping for $ZEC on Dec. 30, 2025, bringing its holdings to 290,062.67 $ZEC. The spot value of Zcash has dropped over 50% since then.
The agency hasn’t introduced any new purchases, and CoinGecko knowledge reveals whole holdings have remained the identical since.
$ZEC holdings of Cypherpunk Applied sciences. Supply: CoinGecko
Information reveals the corporate paused accumulation after reaching about 1.76% of $ZEC’s whole provide. Cypherpunk has stated it goals to construct a place equal to five% of the token’s provide.
$ZEC value since Cypherpunk’s final public buy disclosure on Dec. 30. Supply: CoinGecko
With a median $ZEC buy value of about $334, Cypherpunk Applied sciences is sitting on an unrealized lack of $25.73 million, down 26.5%, with $ZEC buying and selling round $245 at press time.
$ZEC kicked off a multi-month rally this fall, beginning in late September, reaching as excessive as $700 in mid-November. Whereas the privateness coin has retraced a lot of its 2025 features, it’s nonetheless buying and selling nearly 400% larger than its pre-rally ranges in September.
The Defiant reached out to Cypherpunk to make clear its plans for the DAT, however hasn’t obtained a response by press time.
Cypherpunk Applied sciences Inc. share value over 6 months. Supply: Google Finance
In the meantime, Cypherpunk’s shares have dropped about 40% over the previous 30 days, although they continue to be over 100% larger than in November, earlier than the corporate rebranded from a biotech agency, Leap Therapeutics, Inc, to a Zcash DAT, in line with knowledge from Google Finance.
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Cypherpunk’s tempo of $ZEC purchases stands out in opposition to extra aggressive digital asset treasury (DAT) methods elsewhere in crypto. The unique and largest DAT, Michael Saylor’s Technique, has been making its BTC purchases on a weekly foundation for over a 12 months, with few exceptions.
Whereas Technique’s unrealized losses have ballooned to about $4.36 billion amid the market downturn, the agency has saved up its accumulation cadence, making 5 Bitcoin purchases to this point in 2026, in line with the corporate’s knowledge.
Tom Lee’s BitMine, the most important Ethereum DAT, has saved tempo to this point this 12 months with the identical variety of $ETH purchases, per knowledge from DefiLlama. BitMine’s unrealized losses reached $6 billion this week because the spot value of $ETH slipped beneath $2,000.
Amid Cypherpunk’s dropping shares and rising paper losses, Gemini, the crypto trade based by the Winklevoss twins, introduced this week that it’s restructuring its enterprise.
The corporate stated in a weblog publish on Thursday, Feb. 5, that it plans to chop roughly 25% of its remaining workforce and exit Europe, the UK, and Australia, because it doubles down on the U.S. market.
