Privacy Coins Crush Crypto Market With 213% Surge as Zcash and Monero Break Away

Privacy cryptocurrencies have become the strongest-performing segment of the cryptocurrency markets, increasing 213% from the peak price of Bitcoin in October 2025, according to data from the on-chain data provider Glassnode. That gap is unusual.

While Bitcoin remains about 36% off its all-time peak that was set in October 2025, the median asset among the 200 largest cryptocurrencies currently by market capitalization is off 58%.

In contrast, privacy coins are the only tracked sector that has decisively moved above the previous 0.1% threshold. A similar trend persisted in a shorter period.

The 10 largest crypto sectors tracked in the dataset all saw gains in the past 30 days, the largest of which were privacy assets, growing 90%.