Zcash Price Climbs Back to $1,250 With NU7 Ten Days Away

The Zcash price is climbing again as the NU7 countdown gets short. ZEC trades at $1,248 at the time of writing (16:00 UTC), up 3.3% in 24 hours after a day between $1,178 and $1,268 on Binance. It is up 10% on the week while Bitcoin barely moved.

Zcash NU7, the upgrade that cuts blocks from 75 seconds to 25, is now about 12,000 blocks away. ZEC is still 26% below its September 26 high of $1,698, and it has not closed above its 50-day moving average since Wednesday. So is this the run into NU7, or another bounce that stops at the same ceiling?

Zcash’s own account counted down to the upgrade on Sunday night:

Zcash 🛡️ @Zcash

Zcash's Blossom upgrade (2019) halved block time from 150 to 75 seconds ⏱️

This reduced the 500-block Sprout to Sapling pool migration interval from 20.8 to 10.4 hours.

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Why Is the Zcash Price Up Today?

Because the upgrade date is getting close and nothing has knocked it off course. The NU7 launch block, 3,543,405, has been in the spec since developers merged it on October 21, and the Zcash Foundation shipped the node software for it a day later.

Leverage is coming back slowly. Open interest in OKX’s ZEC perpetual rose from 107,334 ZEC on Saturday to about 113,600 ZEC now, up 6%, with funding at 0.007% every eight hours. That’s a market leaning long, not one piling in.

The ETF side helps too. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF took in $41.1 million last week, $20.5 million of it on Friday, its fourth inflow day in a row.

When Does the Zcash NU7 Upgrade Go Live?

Around 01:00 UTC on November 6, which is the evening of November 5 in New York. At 15:56 UTC on Monday the chain stood at block 3,531,434, so 11,971 blocks remain. At 75 seconds a block that’s about 10.4 days, and blocks rarely land exactly on time, so give it a few hours either way.

The software is ready. Zebra 7.0.0, out since October 22, is the first stable version that runs NU7 on mainnet. Every node operator has to install it before block 3,543,405, or their node ends up on a different chain once the upgrade switches on. The release also closes seven security advisories, five rated high.

For holders, one thing matters. Coins still sitting in Sprout, Zcash’s oldest shielded pool, can’t be spent after NU7. If you have any, move them before the upgrade.

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Zcash Price Analysis: Can ZEC Get Back Above $1,301?

Not yet. The 50-day simple moving average sits at $1,301, and ZEC has closed above it only once in the past two weeks, on October 21. The 200-day MA is far below at $716, so the bigger trend in the Zcash price is still up.

The levels the crew is watching:

• Resistance: $1,268 and $1,301. Today’s high, then the 50-day MA. A daily close above $1,301 puts $1,368 to $1,385 back in play, the zone that stopped ZEC on October 4, 6 and 21.
• Support: $1,158 to $1,178. Friday’s low and today’s low. Under that sits $1,049, the October 18 low.

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Three ways this plays out:

• Bull case: a close above $1,301, then a push through $1,368 as the upgrade gets close, with the $1,698 high the next big level.
• Base case: the ZEC price chops between $1,178 and $1,301 until early November.
• Bear case: a close under $1,158 sends it back to $1,049.

Remember how the testnet launch went. NU7 switched on there on October 4, ZEC pushed up to $1,385 in the days around it, then lost 10.6% on October 8. Upgrades often get bought on the way in and sold on the day.

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TANG

In crypto since 2017. A technical trader with years of experience in DeFi and onchain data.

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