Zcash outperforms Bitcoin on Wall Street ETF interest
Zcash (ZEC)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that Zcash is dramatically outperforming Bitcoin and entering the crypto’s top 10. The outlet notes that Zcash is attracting new institutional interest through Wall Street’s first spot ZEC exchange-traded product. Davinci examines what is driving the rally and whether demand for financial privacy exposes Bitcoin’s greatest weakness.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ZEC, measured when this story was written up on 22 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Zcash is trading at $1,471.45 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 56.6% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 54.8%, indicating strong short-term buying pressure. This contrasts with the 24-hour buy ratio of 48.2%, suggesting that recent buying intensity is higher than the daily average. Volume delta shows +$1,764,337 in the last hour and +$7,532,011 over four hours, while the 24-hour volume delta is -$12,027,546. The positive short-term deltas mean more money is flowing in now than in the past day, even as the longer-term trend shows net outflows.
The latest daily buy ratio of 52.9% sits at the 82nd percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 50.2% - stronger buying than most days.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ZEC, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, Zcash saw a 26.5% price increase and 5 days of net buying out of 7. The 7-day average buy ratio was 51.1%, which is slightly lower than the current 24-hour ratio of 48.2% but higher than the immediate 24-hour reading. Volume over the last 8 days totaled +$77,682,741, with current volume at 0.93x the average. This indicates that while the coin has performed well recently, today's volume is slightly below the weekly norm, making it an ordinary day for trading activity relative to the recent surge.