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#ZEC hits an all-time high on the site, privacy assets revalued I remember Monero appeared in a movie, and out of curiosity, I looked into these privacy coins. At that time, $ZEC was still around $400. Looking back now, this logic has become clearer and clearer. ZEC has recently hit a new all-time high, and the privacy sector is clearly being targeted by capital again. Many people understand privacy coins too narrowly. Actually, I think Ethereum is like a "half privacy sector." ETH itself is a public ledger, and on-chain fund flows can be tracked, but privacy protocols like Railgun have already grown on it, enabling hidden transactions and private DeFi through zero-knowledge proofs. This means that future privacy competition may not only be between native privacy coins like ZEC and XMR, but more likely a competition between "public chains + privacy layers." Even from real cases, in 2023 the FBI confirmed that Lazarus processed over $60 million worth of Ethereum through Railgun. So now I look at this sector by considering ZEC and $ETH together: the former represents the revaluation of native privacy assets, while the latter represents huge application scenarios for privacy infrastructure. If on-chain assets continue to grow and regulation and on-chain tracking become stronger, I actually think "privacy" may not be a niche demand but will gradually become a fundamental layer of infrastructure that public chains must solve.