Privacy sector explosion: In-depth review of related bullish tokens 🔥

Simultaneously holding huge spot and short positions of $ZEC, the "10.11 insider whale" Garrett Jin @GarrettBullish has cut off floating losses of $30 million in $ZEC shorts! Is this a strong bullish signal for the future of $ZEC? 🤯

Indeed, $ZEC has surged nearly 100 times from the bottom, with ATH approaching $1600, making it a star token in this round of rallies, while also driving Fomo in the market for the privacy sector. Vitalik @VitalikButerin also said in a recent interview: "I will not give up privacy."

So, we have sorted out the capital rotation path of the privacy sector and the relevant beneficiary tokens! 👇

🚀 I. Four-step quick overview of core capital rotation in the privacy sector

1⃣ First buy tradable privacy assets ($ZEC)
2⃣ Then buy routers that make privacy a default experience ($NEAR)
3⃣ Then buy infrastructure for encrypted computing on public chains ($ZAMA)
4⃣ Finally, it's the turn of application plugins and old coins Beta ($RAIL / $ZEN / $DASH)

💡 II. Sharp comments on bullish tokens from "夯" to "拉"

👑 [Heng] $ZEC & $NEAR —— Pricing core and traffic entry point

$ZEC (Zcash) | The first choice for large capital in this round, the king of compliant privacy coins
Core data: Current price $1,508.87 | 7d +42.20% | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$25.55 billion
💡 Core highlights:
👉 Compliant audit compatibility: Supports View Key, meets regulatory anti-money laundering requirements, and has a Grayscale trust channel, which is the only compliant channel for large capital to configure the privacy narrative.
👉 Clear chip structure: Circulation rate is close to 100%, without large-scale VC unlock selling pressure, and secondary market buying resistance is small.
👉 Strong capital bearing capacity: Market cap and liquidity rank high in the privacy sector, capable of effectively receiving hundreds of millions of funds in and out.

$NEAR (NEAR Protocol) | Chain abstraction router compatible with ZEC
Core data: Current price $4.19 | 7d +81.20% | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$5.47 billion
💡 Core highlights:
👉 Seamless privacy experience: Through chain abstraction and multi-chain signatures, de-sensitized interactions are embedded as underlying routes. Users do not need to switch to dedicated wallets when operating on Ethereum or Solana, directly intercepting cross-chain interaction traffic.
👉 Both fundamentals and liquidity: As public chain infrastructure, it enjoys the support of AI, chain abstraction, and privacy narratives simultaneously, absorbing large amounts of capital, with a 7-day increase of 81.20%.
👉 "Futures airdrop" gameplay ignites the market (NEAR@3.33): NEAR's NEAR@3.33 (mailto:NEAR@3.33) first pushed the airdrop TVL to $70 million, triggering the first snapshot; the qualification is to keep NEAR privacy accounts over $100 and have made at least one privacy swap. Tokens are locked until NEAR three-day VWAP stands above $3.33 to be redeemed into circulating NEAR. Currently, NEAR price has far exceeded 3.3.

🥈 [Superior] $ZAMA / $RAIL —— Hardcore infrastructure and pure-blood plugins, high elasticity targets

$ZAMA (Zama) | Public chain fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) computing infrastructure
Core data: Current price $0.0862 | 7d +83.20% | Circulating market cap ~$213 million | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$973 million
💡 Core highlights:
👉 Ciphertext computing generational upgrade: Leading the development of fhEVM, breaking through the limitation of ZK only being able to "verify", solving the pain points of MEV resistance and confidential DeFi.
👉 First-mover advantage in the track: Top project in the FHE track, high technical barriers, broad narrative space.
👉 High elasticity and odds: Circulating disk is about 21.8%, small market cap, high elasticity in the main rising wave (7d +83.20%); however, note the rhythm of later token unlocks.

$RAIL (Railgun) | EVM native smart contract privacy plugin
Core data: Current price $3.04 | 7d +52.20% | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$182 million
💡 Core highlights:
👉 EVM native no cross-chain: Directly deployed as contracts on Ethereum mainnet and major L2s, users can complete zero-knowledge private transfers without bearing cross-chain bridge risks. Vitalik has publicly used and recommended it multiple times.
👉 100% fully circulated without selling pressure: Market cap is only around 182 million, light chip structure, is an excellent application layer Beta during capital overflow stage.

⚖️ [NPC] $XMR —— Top anonymity, but severely limited liquidity

$XMR (Monero) | Fundamentalist anonymous currency, trapped by compliance reviews
Core data: Current price $571.95 | 7d +9.20% | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$10.75 billion
💡 Core pain points and current situation:
👉 Extremely strong anonymity mechanism but cannot comply: Default mandatory anonymity and hidden addresses across the network, top anti-censorship capabilities; but due to non-compliance with FATF travel rule, delisted by most mainstream CEXes globally.
👉 Severe liquidity discount: Entry and exit blocked by DEX and OTC over-the-counter markets, institutional funds cannot enter on a large scale, resulting in only a 9.20% increase in 7 days against the backdrop of a sector-wide rally, lacking price elasticity in the secondary market.

🪨 [Done pulling] $ZEN /$DASH —— Old coins whose mechanisms have been de-sensitized and technology has become outdated

$ZEN (Horizen) | Old coin catch-up after stripping privacy pools
Core data: Current price $7.70 | 7d +23.90% | Circulating market cap ~$141 million | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$162 million
💡 Core pain points and current situation:
👉 Native privacy functions removed: To avoid the risk of exchange delisting, the official has actively abandoned Shielded Pools, essentially transforming into a general modular EVM chain, lacking native privacy competitiveness.
👉 Purely driven by emotion: Circulation rate reaches 87.3%, recent increases mainly driven by low market cap rebound and sector memory, lacking independent fundamental support.

$DASH (Dash) | Payment token with outdated architecture
Core data: Current price $56.60 | 7d +6.00% | Circulating market cap ~$726 million | Fully diluted valuation (FDV) ~$726 million
💡 Core pain points and current situation:
👉 Outdated mixing mechanism: Still adopts CoinJoin scheme based on master nodes, lacking cryptographic technical advantages compared to modern ZK and FHE, easily tracked by on-chain analysis, and facing CEX censorship pressure.
👉 Bottom of capital attention: Only increased slightly by 6.00% in 7 days, severely lagging behind in the sector-wide explosion, low capital recognition, typical marginalized old coin.

摩根士丹利的一份报告讨论了“软件定价将如何超越基于座位的许可模式？”：

“随着AI代理直接完成工作，人类座位不再代表价值，削弱了传统的SaaS。市场正在趋同于混合座位加消费模式，而不是纯粹的基于结果的定价，后者仍然难以操作（归因和ROI衡量）。纯消费模式能更快捕获AI的上升潜力，但会带来更高的收入波动性和经济下行期的周期性。”

我回忆起一些来自加密货币的机制可能有所帮助：

收费方式 = 加密货币机制 -> 实际应用的公司
按次/按代币计费（x402）= Gas计量（EIP-1559费用市场） -> $NET, $SPGI

承诺使用/容量锁定 = ve代币经济学锁定（Curve） -> $SNOW, $CRM

质押服务等级协议/履约保证金 = 质押+惩罚机制 -> $ZEN

代理间微支付 = 支付通道/流式支付 -> $COIN, $Circle

基于结果（按结果付费）= MEV/价值实现 -> Intercom

你订购了一组新的交易对吗？因为它已经来了！• $EIGEN/$USDC: • $FF/$USDC: • $ZEN/$USDC: 更多交易对，更多机会。

OKEX 上新: OKX将上线Horizen (ZEN) 现货交易

$ZEN MarketCap: $279M
(Auto match could be wrong, 自动匹配可能不准确)