Daily Summary2026-08-26
Stories clustered across sources, with day-to-day continuity and threading.
THORChain Ships Monero and Zcash Swaps
THORChain deploys v3.20 — native XMR/ZEC swap support (no wrapped tokens, no accounts), starting shallow on protocol-owned liquidity — while restoring vault rotation after May's $10.7M exploit
The Zcash ETF Goes Live on NYSE Arca as the First US Spot Privacy-Coin Fund
The Zcash ETF (ZCSH), converted from Grayscale's 2021-vintage OTC trust, began trading on NYSE Arca — the first US spot ETF holding a privacy coin — opening around $65.85, per coverage. The fund holds roughly 392,000 ZEC in Coinbase custody at a 2.5% sponsor fee, with continuous creation/redemption replacing the OTC structure whose premiums once hit 240%. Grayscale founder Barry Silbert reportedly called ZEC the best speculative buy with an $8,000 target, and the fund reportedly directs its first-year fee to ZEC awareness. ZEC traded near an eight-year high around $880.