Zcash falls below $1,000 for first time since September

Zcash fell nearly 15% amid a broader sell-off in privacy coins, a day after Grayscale pledged $1 million to ecosystem initiatives.

Zcash (ZEC) fell to a two-month low of $962.85 on Wednesday, a day after Grayscale pledged $1 million to nonprofits and projects supporting the Zcash network.

As of 12:20 pm UTC Wednesday, Zcash’s 13.5% drop led 24-hour losses among the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and was down 24.5% over seven days. The decline was part of a broader crypto sell-off that left Bitcoin (BTC) down 5.8% and Ether (ETH) down 11.6% over the same period, according to CoinGecko.

Crypto prices fell further Tuesday after US consumer prices rose 0.4% in October from the previous month, above economists’ 0.3% forecast.

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