• Zcash had jumped over 17% over the period of 12-18^th October, before running into sellers.
• The foundation set to launch the Sapling protocol upgrade. To improve efficiency for shielded transactions.

Zcash over a 6-day period from 12-18th October gained a whopping 17%. Moving quickly from as low as $108, to then be above $126. Since, the price has run into some sellers and touted profit-takinggiven the large run in such as short time frame.

What Is This ‘Zcash’ (ZEC)?

Zcash was a hard fork of Bitcoin in 2016. Unlike the number one ranked crypto by market cap, privacy is ensured via Zcash. Personal and transaction data are kept confidential. This being facilitated through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing conducted transactions to go through verification without any required details about the sender, receiver as well as the transacted amount.

Zcash Set to Launch Sapling Protocol Upgrade

The Zcash foundation recently updated via their blog ‘Sapling Transaction Anatomy’. Full breakdown details can be read there as they are set to launch the Sapling protocol upgrade.

Sapling, this will be a network upgrade that aims to substantially improve efficiency for shielded transactions – paving the way for broad mobile, exchange as well as vendor adoption of Zcash shielded addresses. Their motivations for the Sapling upgrade are to increase speed on these shielded transactions.

Coinbase Speculation Continues to Do Rounds

The community around Zcash continues to speculate on whether the privacy-focused crypto will be added to Coinbase. Earlier in the year, Coinbase said they were exploring the possibility of listing Zcash and others, such as Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Stellar Lumens and 0x on its platforms. This covered back in July and does not guarantee it will be added, but the hope still appears to be flowing through the community.

Zcash Jumps to 20^th Largest by Market Cap

Earlier this week, Zcash managed to break into the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap. It overtook Dogecoin. The current market cap at time of writing seen at $588,429,693, ahead of DOGE at $513,884,230.

Technical Review – Daily Chart

ZEC/USD daily chart

ZEC/USD has been cooling over the past two sessions, after its recent 17% price run. It isn’t too much of a surprise to see the current easing, given the fast surge higher. Near-term support can be found around $115 area, then further south within a demand zone tracking from $110-105. Looking to the upside, sellers are camped heading into the $130 territory. A higher near-term target would be eyed at $145, price last traded here on 28^th September.

This year Zcash is still down some 80% from the highs in January, up over the $800 price level. It has failed to sustain any upside momentum, rallies continue to be sold by the bears. This is something that has been seen across the other cryptocurrecies, not just Zcash. The market continues to search for a bottom.

Disclaimer: The author owns bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies. He holds investment positions in the coins, but does not engage in short-term or day-trading.

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Friday Market Snapshot

Risk assets are having an active and already very busy day after yesterday’s tumultuous session, as volatility continues to be high, especially in equities. All eyes were on Chinese stocks and the Yuan today in early trading, as several key economic numbers were published in the country. Chinese officials lived up to the occasion, doing everything in their power to prop up the market verbally and most likely more directly too.

USD/CNH, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Chinese stocks started the day lower due to yesterday’s broad global selloff, and although they surged higher towards the end of the session, erasing their early losses, the main benchmarks remain in steep downtrends on all time-frames, and the Yuan is also very close to its cycle lows.

Shanghai Composite Index CFD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

The quarterly GDP and industrial production came in slightly below expected, continuing the deterioration of the recent quarters, while retail sales beat the consensus estimate, as the consumer segment is still outperforming.

 While the official numbers are far from disastrous, it’s hard to trust the government statistics, given the history of “controlled” releases, and looking at the unofficial indicators, the country’s economy and financial system are under larger stress than reported.

EuroStoxx50 Index CFD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Global stock futures celebrated the Chinese rally for a few hours, but a large chunk of the gains is already gone near the end of the European session, and the focus is back on the Italian budget crisis and the looming Brexit deadline.

The Italian banking sector is under heavy pressure on rumors suggesting increased capital flight from the country and although the Euro is stable, the risk-off trade is well and alive on the Old Continent.

The EuroStoxx 50, which has been performing relatively well form a long-term standpoint failed to leave the vicinity of the spring lows, and the mega-cap index is now threatening to join the long-term breakdown of the DAX after the decline of the past couple of sessions.

US Stocks Rebound as Dollar Rally Pauses

Dow 30 Futures, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

The major US indices opened modestly above yesterday’s closing levels, as Treasury yields settled down following the volatile post-Fed-minutes period. The Dow, the S&P 500, and Nasdaq are all stuck in declining short-term trends, and despite the recent strong bounce, last week’s panic lows are still close.

The Volatility Index (VIX) fell back below 20 today, small caps are performing in line with the broader market, so while we remain bearish form a broader perspective, the immediate outlook for equities is mixed, with no strong divergences before the last session of the week.

Today’s bounce is helped by the better-than-expected earnings report of Procter & Gamble (PG), which opened 6% higher, and the slight pullback Dollar, which got close to its 2-month highs today in European trading. Forex markets, in general, are showing a risk-on bias today, with the Australian Dollar and the Kiwi being helped by the Chinese bounce, and with Pound being stable after yesterday’s selloff.

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DAX 30 Index CFD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

FTSE 100 Index CFD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

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EEM (Emerging Markets ETF), 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Forex

EUR/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

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GBP/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

EUR/GBP, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

AUD/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Commodities

WTI Crude Oil, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Gold Futures, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

Copper Futures, 4-Hour Chart Analysis

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• Ethereum’s Annual Devcon is just under two weeks away, to be kicked off from 30^th October – 2^nd.
• ETH/USD price action has been narrowing within a triangular pattern, subject to a breakout.

Ethereum’s Blockchain Upgrade Faces Delay

Just a few days ago, Ethereum’s software upgrade, had a failure, as Constantinople – proposed hard fork did not activate on the test network Ropsten. Ethereum has been planning to implement the Constantinople upgrade in November. However, given the failed attempt seen in the testing stage of the upgrade, this appears to have now shifted plans. The Ethereum infrastructure organization, Infura tweeted: “Due to a consensus issue with the Constantinople fork, Ropsten is currently not usable. The Ethereum dev community is investigating. Until further notice please utilize one of the other Ethereum testnets.”

As a result, the developers at Ethereum had released a patch, to fix the bug problem. An independent developer working on the project, Lane Rettig, commented on the delay, noting that they are investigating the failure to upgrade. Rettig said: “I would expect it to get delayed to 2019.”

Wave IV of Grants Program Distributed for Ethereum Development

Millions of dollars have been distributed by the Ethereum Foundation to projects that are contributing to the development of Ethereum. A full breakdown of the grants distributed can be viewed in their latest blog post. The funds totaling over $3 million, were sent out to 20 individuals and groups, that are working on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Annual Developer Conference

It is not long now until Etheruem’s Devcon 4, which will be held from Oct 30th–Nov 2nd in Prague.

Devcon is Ethereum’s “family reunion.” It is hosted to educate and empower their community to build decentralized applications, bringing Ethereum protocols, tools, and culture to the world.

The annual conference is for “builders: designers, UX researchers, smart contract devs, blockchain researchers, client implementers, test engineers, infrastructure operators, community organizers, and even artists in the community.”

Technical Review – 4-hour Chart

ETH/USD 4-hour chart

ETH/USD has been stuck trading within a triangular pattern, since mid-September. The price has swung between a low seen around $170 up to a high within $255 territory, within this period.  Over the past three weeks price action has been narrowing. As a result, ETH/USD is moving closer towards the end of the pattern, looking very likely of a breakout. On 15^th October, the price saw a large surge in volume, which as a result saw a quick upper wick spike outside of the pattern. However, on the close of that candle, the price was back within the triangle.

Furthermore, resistance to the upside is eyed at $215, the upper trend line of the pattern. A break north will likely see the above supply zone tested again, $250-255 region. Finally, in terms of support, this can be seen at the lower part of the pattern, just below the $200 mark at $197. Consequently, should bearish momentum push for a breach, a below demand zone will likely come into play at $180-165 area.

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