Monero on Lynx Tech Bloghttps://blog.lynxflow.co/en/tags/monero/Recent content in Monero on Lynx Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 17 Sep 2026 21:05:00 +0800ZEC Surges 26x in One Year, Analysis Firms Still Stumped by XMR: Two Fates of Privacy Coins — An In-Depth Study by 32 AI Agentshttps://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/xmr-zec-two-fates-of-privacy-coins-2026/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:05:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/xmr-zec-two-fates-of-privacy-coins-2026/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/xmr-zec-two-fates-cover.png?v=0922" alt="Featured image of post ZEC Surges 26x in One Year, Analysis Firms Still Stumped by XMR: Two Fates of Privacy Coins — An In-Depth Study by 32 AI Agents" /> TL;DR: &ldquo;ZEC has stronger cryptography, XMR has deeper deployment&rdquo;—both sentences are true. On-chain analytics firm Arkham has tagged 53% of Zcash transactions (a ~$420B volume) but has zero reproducible tagging results for Monero; yet ZEC was the one that rallied from $51 to ~$1,360 in 2026 (+2,473%, market cap $0.8B→$23B). What the market bought wasn&rsquo;t privacy intensity—it was &ldquo;regulatory explainability&rdquo;: the trifecta of a Grayscale spot ETF, the Ironwood upgrade,