Zcash (ZEC) Privacy in Spotlight as Arkham On-Chain Monitoring Tags 53% of Transactions
COINOTAG News reported that Zcash (ZEC) recently traded under renewed privacy-market focus, following high‑profile legal developments including the seizure of 127,000 BTC and the arrest of a money‑laundering mastermind. In this backdrop, ZEC briefly topped $750 as market attention centered on the protocol’s privacy features.
Today, unveiled, tagging a majority of activity on the privacy chain and linking it to identifiable entities. The platform states that 53% of Zcash transactions have been tagged, with $420 billion of transaction volume attributed to specific entities, 48% of inputs and outputs connected to entities, and 37% of Zcash balances tagged (about $2.5 billion).
This development highlights the expanding role of on-chain analytics in assessing privacy‑centric assets, underscoring the tension between user privacy and compliance while offering investors more explicit visibility into activity patterns without asserting attribution beyond disclosed data.