Grayscale's ZCSH, the first US spot Zcash ETF, lost $93.56 million to outflows in one week, leaving $212.56 million of net inflows since its August launch. Its assets fell further, to about $751 million from a September peak as high as $979 million, with ZEC's price accounting for much of the drop.
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Grayscale research head Zach Pandl says AI-linked tokens rose 54% in September against 24% for crypto overall, with NEAR up 183%. Broken out token by token, the figures show one strong name in a small sector more than a market pricing blockchains as infrastructure for agents.
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Grayscale's Zcash ETF recorded a $30.25 million net outflow on Sept. 30, leaving cumulative net inflows near $268 million. With ZEC 21% below its late-September peak, the next flow prints will show whether the fund's buyers stay with the coin after its run.
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Bitcoin rose 0.9% to $84,376 after August core PCE came in at 3.0%, below the 3.3% economists expected. Lower odds of an October Fed hike did little for a market whose September rally ran on ETF inflows that have since faded.
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Wallets tied to the $387.5 million Bitget hack moved 2,746 ZEC, about $3.9 million, into Zcash's Ironwood shielded pool on September 30. The deposit is about 1% of the theft, and across every route tracked so far roughly 13 dollars have gone dark for each dollar frozen.
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Bitcoin's CMBI benchmark closed near $83,113, just under the $84,000-$85,000 band where Glassnode counts more long-term holder coins than at any other price. With futures leverage at its lowest since March, spot buyers and sellers will decide whether the band holds.
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Bitwise's NRR, the first US spot NEAR ETF, stakes its tokens and keeps about 67% of a roughly 5% reward rate for shareholders. After the 0.75% fee, that comes to roughly 2.6% a year in extra tokens, just above NEAR's 2.5% inflation.
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Alloc Init published a 56-page design for Zcash-style private Bitcoin transfers that needs no change to Bitcoin's consensus rules. Deposits and withdrawals await a second paper, so who holds the pooled BTC is still an open question.
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Bitwise's BSOL drew $55.7 million of US spot Solana ETFs' record $80 million to $87 million day, a smaller share than its 76% to 80% of all inflows. Grayscale and the smaller funds took a bigger slice of the new money than of the old.
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The fund charges 2.5% a year on about $100,000 of day-one assets held with BitGo, four weeks after Grayscale's US Zcash ETF began trading on NYSE Arca. The European money has not shown up yet.
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The renamed GCPU tracks an index of high-performance computing firms, half of them GPU cloud operators and half converts from mining, on Grayscale's view that grid-connected capacity stays scarce for years.
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Zcash's lockbox holds 63,962 coins taken at 12% of every block subsidy, about $95 million when the argument went public. The dollar figure moves with the coin, and the 2028 sunset is what investors are fighting over.
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ZRC-20 needs no consensus change, so the Foundation's denial is a reputational act with no on-chain effect, and it lands while Grayscale's ZCSH ETF has pulled more than $500m into ZEC in two weeks.
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Grayscale's ZCSH holds 596,269 ZEC, roughly 3.52% of circulating supply, after in-kind creations lifted its coin count by 28.4%. Assets nearly tripled over the same weeks, and most of that came from ZEC's price.
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Solana's spot ETFs have taken net inflows for twelve straight weeks, an average of at least $117m a week, and the latest week came in at $60.7m. Bitcoin's spot funds took $6.1m on their quietest volume since October 2024.
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IBIT took in about $1.08bn over 20 days while GBTC lost $254.7m. But 1.5% on $10bn still collects roughly $150m a year, the same as 0.25% on $60bn, so a cut would cost Grayscale more than the outflows do.
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Onchain equity venues cleared roughly $1.01bn across the closed Saturday and Sunday, then $398.3m on the holiday Monday. Per day that is about $505m against Friday's $1.02bn, and Robinhood Chain took the biggest single share.
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Grayscale's Zach Pandl puts every Zcash miner in the world at about $2 million of revenue a day against Bitcoin's $35 million. The four-times power advantage that implies only reaches Equihash hardware.
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SoSoValue counted $13.29m leaving bitcoin funds on September 11 and $216m arriving in ether funds. Another tracker counted $267m out of bitcoin and $46m out of ether on the same date.
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The novel-ETF comment file closed Monday with a16z, Grayscale, Schwab, Chainalysis and Kalshi arguing past each other, and only Schwab attached a number to its ask: 75 days of public filing before effect.
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Earlier coverage
- Bitwise's BSOL captures 79% of Solana ETF flows while paying a 5.8% staking yield
Invest · August 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Grayscale's ZCSH puts Zcash in brokerage accounts, and none of its ZEC is shielded
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