Zcash brought privacy back into the center of the crypto conversation Mert connects the renewed interest in privacy directly to Zcash's rise from the top 100 into the top 10. "Zcash, going from the top 100 to the top 10, played quite a large role in that." "Crypto, attention, liquidity equals price action." "It is one of the things left in finance that is player versus environment." "If I have privacy, and Laura, you have privacy, that's good for both of us." Price action creates attention. Attention brings liquidity, new participants and more opportunities for teams building in the sector. That's where Mert's PvE idea becomes interesting. Most financial markets are fundamentally competitive. One participant's gain can come from another participant's loss. Privacy works differently. If two people gain stronger financial privacy, both benefit from it. The utility expands across the network instead of requiring users to compete against each other for the same outcome. Zcash's recent rise therefore did more than move the token higher. It put privacy back on the industry's radar and gave the entire sector a new source of attention. Zcash moved. Privacy got attention. A forgotten crypto primitive started becoming a market again. w/ @mert