Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over
Zcash traded at $1,435 on Binance’s spot ZEC/USDT market at 7:08 p.m. ET, and short liquidations across three exchanges totaled $250,000. In later coverage, ZEC was described as 21% below its $1,698 peak, with ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist mentioned alongside that move.
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Traders watching Zcash would have seen the token at $1,435 on Binance’s spot ZEC/USDT market at 7:08 p.m. ET, while short liquidations across three exchanges reached $250,000. That is the immediate market condition visible to users and traders looking at the tape the same evening.
Compared with the earlier peak, ZEC was 21% lower at the time of the later coverage. The earlier rally and the later pullback remain the same facts in the record; what changes in practice is simply the level traders were seeing after that peak.
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The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.
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Where this sits in the Tether series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 11 days ago | USDT a 1 $ high | today it sits -0.1 % from there |
| today | USDT a 0.999 $ low | today it sits +0.0 % from there |
From what we have stored, starting 22 days ago.