Grayscale Launches Zcash ETF Following Critical Privacy Flaw That Rocked the Cryptocurrency
In brief Grayscale’s Zcash fund began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. The product began as a private placement in October 2017.
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- Fact 1: The product began as a private placement in October 2017.
- Fact 2: ZCSH began as the Grayscale Zcash Trust in October 2017.
- Fact 3: “With its nearly decade-long network history, monetary design derived from Bitcoin, including proof of work and a 21 million coin limit, in addition to optional privacy technology that Bitcoin does not have.” According to Vanourny, Grayscale expects ZCSH to appeal primarily to self-directed and advised investors seeking ZEC exposure through a brokerage account.
- Fact 4: Zcash's Ironwood upgrade In May, security researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 to discover a four-year-old vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed an attacker to create counterfeit ZEC.
In brief Grayscale’s Zcash fund began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. The product began as a private placement in October 2017.
Its listing follows the disclosure and patching of a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s shielded transaction system. Grayscale’s Zcash Exchange Traded Fund, better known as an ETF, began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca, listing a nine-year-old investment product months after developers disclosed and patched a critical vulnerability in the privacy coin’s shielded transaction system. Trading under the ticker ZCSH, the world’s first exchange-traded product offering spot Zcash exposure allows investors to track the price of ZEC through brokerage accounts without having to buy or store the token themselves.
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Original source: Decrypt
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