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Sudden SpikeSnapshot Window: 2026-09-09 18:20 UTC · ← Back to Crypto Overview
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zcash and monero hold roughly 90% of the entire privacy sector's value. “Privacy coins up 213%" is really two tokens wearing a category label. Three of the eight coins in this sector barely moved, 2%, 3%, 6%. One's actually negative over the past year. The median coin in this
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AI visual note: The image is a Glassnode bar chart titled "Privacy Is the Only Sector Above Bitcoin's High," showing cap-weighted sector index returns since the October 6, 2025 high (red bars) versus the last 30 days (orange diamonds). Privacy stands out at +213%, while DeFi (-27%), Exchange (-36%), Layer 1 (-40%), AI (-42%), RWA (-57%), Meme (-62%), Layer 2 (-63%), DePIN (-67%), and Gaming (-74%) all remain deep in negative territory. The chart illustrates the accompanying post's point that the "Privacy coins up 213%" headline is misleading—Zcash and Monero dominate the sector's market cap, so the aggregate index masks the fact that most individual privacy tokens have barely moved (2%, 3%, 6%) or are even negative over the past year.