[Zcash Celebrates 10th Anniversary] According to Jinse Finance, on October 29th, Zcash officially and through the community announced that the privacy blockchain celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 28th. ZEC rose as much as 8% to approximately $1,320 that day. Zcash launched on October 28, 2016, and was the first Bitcoin fork to achieve fully shielded transactions using zero-knowledge proofs. It shares Bitcoin's 21 million coin cap and halving mechanism.