Monero vs Zcash

A comparison of Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) with today's market data.

What if Monero were worth as much as Zcash?

If Monero had the market cap of Zcash today ($22.9 B), spread across its 18,805,476 units in circulation, each one would be worth $1,216.02. That is 2.45 times its current price of $495.65.

And the other way round?

With the market cap of Monero ($9.3 B), each Zcash would be worth $550.10: 0.41 times the $1,353.34 it trades at now.

This calculation is a rule of three on the circulating supply, not a projection and not a recommendation. Whether one coin reaches the market cap of another depends on adoption, future supply and real demand, none of which follows from today's price.

Monero and Zcash, according to our data

The market cap of Zcash is 2.5 times that of Monero.
Monero is trading 37.87% below its all-time high; Zcash, 57.60%.
Over the last 33 days with a recorded price, their daily returns have moved with a correlation of -0.04 (weak): each has moved on its own. That is what happened over that stretch, not what will happen over the next one.
Over the last 7 days Zcash has risen 1.23% and Monero has fallen 3.83%.
Over the last 30 days Zcash has risen 145.71% and Monero has risen 18.10%.

CoinGecko data and Jukipto's own daily series, as of 16/09/2026.

The numbers side by side

A comparison of price, market cap, volume, supply and distance from the all-time high between Monero and Zcash.
Metric	Monero	Zcash
Price	$495.65	$1,353.34
Market cap	$9.3 B	$22.9 B
Market cap rank	#14	#9
24h volume	$105.5 M	$2.1 B
24h change	-1.34%	+21.78%
All-time high	$797.73	$3,191.93
Distance from its high	-37.87%	-57.60%
In circulation	18,805,476 XMR	16,933,760 ZEC
Maximum supply	no cap	21,000,000

What these numbers say

Over the past 24 hours 1.13% of the market cap of Monero has been traded, against 9.04% for Zcash. The higher that share, the more that coin's capital is moving relative to its size.
Zcash has an issuance cap of 21,000,000 units; Monero does not. That is a difference of design, not of quality: a fixed cap limits dilution, and having none allows the security of the network to be funded over the long run.

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