- The Winklevoss twins bought 5 percent of Zcash for $50 million, signaling renewed confidence in privacy coins.
- Zcash’s strong technical setup supports further upside potential. But there is resistance at $657.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss again entered a privacy coin value by investing $50 million in Zcash (ZEC) through their newly founded treasury company Cypherpunk Technologies, thereby acquiring 5% of the Zcash tokens.
The twins are no strangers to early crypto success. Their 2013 Bitcoin acquisition of 70,000 BTC, in which they turned a $65 million Facebook deal into a $6 billion empire, is one of the most spectacular crypto moves to date.
The Winklevoss twins just invested $50M to acquire 5% of Zcash’s supply through their new treasury company Cypherpunk Technologies.
This is the biggest validation signal privacy crypto has ever received.
These aren’t random investors. Cameron and Tyler turned a $65M Facebook… pic.twitter.com/t4Xfo9B2b6
— The Wisemen Alpha (@Wisemenmentors) November 12, 2025
They now have a decade of market experience and a proven process for finding undervalued assets that will grow over the long term. With Zcash they are landing a new coup according to their well-known pattern. Apparently they expect the issue of data protection to be the next critical next stage in the development of institutional crypto acceptance.
Zcash offers features not available in Bitcoin, such as fully encrypted transactions that allow the use of view keys to comply with regulatory requirements.
Zcash’s zero-knowledge proof protocol not only provides comprehensive data protection, but is also up to 20 times more resistant to quantum computer attacks than Bitcoin’s transparent ledgers.
Cardano boss Hoskinson reacts
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson responded to the news with a sarcastic “Interesting… very interesting” GIF that highlights the competitive situation privacy coins find themselves in.
Hoskinson’s statements sparked interest among Cardano supporters in his new privacy sidechain Midnight, which is developing privacy applications that are quantum-resistant and similar to the zk-SNARKs used in the privacy coin Zcash.
Fans suspectthat new projects like Midnight may become unexpected competitors if data protection remains an important aspect of the development of the crypto industry.
Midnight will be wild. This is the typical approach to fudd the better play but once they realise they made a mistake then we see
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Just wait and see! $NIGHT— Alex Again (@AlesL55581) November 13, 2025
This is a reminder that there is a high level of innovation and competition in cryptocurrencies when it comes to data protection, which is largely determined by the challenges of the regulatory environment.
Zcash seeks to solve this problem by developing encrypted transactions that are compliant with relevant regulatory frameworks.
Zcash technicals support the uptrend expectation
Zcash price has surged following the Winklevoss action and is now trading at $572.03 after rising nearly 14% in the last 24 hours.
Immediate resistance lies at $657, the recent high, and support remains at $463 through the 20-day EMA. Longer-term EMAs, including the 50-day, 100-day and 200-day moving averages, confirm an accelerating uptrend.
The Fibonacci retracement levels suggest that the corrections that followed the uptrends are small and that buyers are entering the market around the $508 level. If the positive trend continues, potential profits could rise to $700-$720 and even $780-$820.
The RSI of 65 and the extended Bollinger Bands are also bullish and not overvalued. The MACD shows a minor bearish crossover but a temporary break within a broader uptrend.
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