Zcash (ZEC) 2026: A Rare Altcoin Thesis That Still Holds Up
The post Zcash (ZEC) 2026: A Rare Altcoin Thesis That Still Holds Up appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. For most of crypto’s history, the altcoin trade went something like this: buy a basket of altcoins when Bitcoin is consolidating, hold through the next BTC leg up, then ride the dominance unwind into an “altseason” of 2x to 10x rotations. Hold spot, believe in something, get paid for being early. That trade has stopped working, and the reasons it has stopped working are not cyclical. They are permanent. Investors hoping that a return to 2021-style conditions will bail out their bag of sub-billion-dollar L1s and DeFi tokens are mostly going to be disappointed. The altcoin market is becoming harder, more dangerous, and more punishing for the average participant — and that trend is going to continue. This isn’t a bearish take on crypto as an asset class. Crypto remains the highest-returning liquid market available to retail and institutional capital. It is a take on what kind of crypt