Zcash (ZEC) Faces Pressure as Shielded Pool Outflows Hit Record Levels
Zcash had been going through an extremely challenging period, ZEC was affected by intense trading operations and some peculiarities of on-chain movement of funds, still the ZEC price managed to perform quite well over the last three months with a growth of +106% in general. The biggest event came on June 5, 2026, when the shielded pool recorded a massive -157,930 ZEC outflow. That’s one of the largest single-day de-shielding moves seen in recent history. In simple terms, a large amount of ZEC moved out of private addresses into transparent ones, and at current levels that equals roughly $90M+ worth of coins shifting position in a single day.