Glassnode’s latest market breakdown shows a sharp split inside crypto performance over the past year. Bitcoin is down 36% from its October 2025 all-time high, and the median drawdown across the top 200 digital assets by market capitalization stands at 58%. Yet the privacy coin segment has moved the other way, rising 213% and becoming the only sector to push above its previous peak. The report says the market value of privacy coins in the top 200 climbed from $7.1 billion a year ago to $33.6 billion, with nearly half of that increase arriving in the past 30 days. Zcash (ZEC) drove much of the move, surging 2,496% over the period and accounting for 62% of the sector’s market cap. Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and Horizen (ZEN) also outperformed Bitcoin over the last 90 days. Glassnode adds that the latest 30-day rally has been broad, with 91.5% of the top 200 assets posting gains, the widest monthly rebound in that dataset. Even so, only 25 assets are up on a one-year basis, which points to a market where gains have been concentrated rather than evenly shared.

HTX’s weekly performance table for Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 showed broad strength across several crypto sectors, with Layer 2, Solana ecosystem tokens, privacy coins, DeFi assets and BSC meme names all posting notable moves. ARB, the governance token of Arbitrum, led the exchange’s weekly gainers with a 111% rise, making it the strongest performer on the list and drawing renewed attention to Ethereum scaling infrastructure. RAY, the native token of Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium, climbed 61%, reflecting continued activity in the Solana ecosystem and demand for DeFi protocols with active on-chain use cases. Privacy-focused tokens formed one of the clearest sector trends of the week. DASH rose 61%, while ZEC gained 37% and ZEN added 36%, putting three privacy-related assets on the leaderboard at the same time. HTX’s data also showed gains in established DeFi names, with UNI up 35% and JST up 18%. MARSCOIN, described in the source as a BSC meme asset, rose 37%, indicating that higher-beta segments remained active as market risk appetite improved. The original report said market attention had spread from a single narrative to multiple sub-sectors, with funds rotating between high-volatility themes such as meme and privacy tokens and infrastructure areas including L2, DeFi and public-chain ecosystems.

In the year through Sept 6, privacy token market cap grew from $7.1B to $33.6B, a 3.7x increase. ZEC soared 2,496% and now accounts for 62% of the sector. The privacy sector is the only segment trading above its Oct 6, 2025 high, up 213%.

Zcash (ZEC) climbed above $1,200 on Sept. 7 based on Binance ZEC/USDT spot market data, marking its highest level since 2018 and putting privacy coins back in focus. Binance historical data cited in the report shows ZEC rising from about $856 on Sept. 1 to above $1,200 within six days, a gain of more than 40% that outpaced major crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ether over the same period. The move was described as a series of breakouts rather than a one-day spike, with ZEC clearing $900 and $1,000 before extending higher. The report also said ZEC has gained more than 2,300% over the past year. Historical pricing showed the token was still below $50 in early September 2025, compared with roughly $1,200 now. Attention has also broadened to the wider privacy-coin segment, with DASH and ZEN posting double-digit gains earlier and seeing clearer capital inflows alongside ZEC. At the same time, the piece noted that after such a sharp advance, short-term volatility risk has increased, and whether $1,200 can flip from resistance into support is now a key level to watch.

Crypto markets on Aug. 31 were led by a cluster of stories around Robinhood Chain activity, tokenized stock trading, and U.S. crypto legislation. Robinhood Chain posted $945 million in single-day DEX volume on Aug. 29, setting a new all-time high and moving above its previous peak from mid-July. Token Terminal said the seven most actively traded tokenized stocks all sit on either BNB Chain or Robinhood Chain, generating a combined $4.3 billion in DEX volume over the past 30 days. Pons, a token launch platform active on Robinhood Chain, said it has paid $20.93 million to token creators over the past 47 days, while Dune data showed 23,080 tokens were deployed on Robinhood Chain on Aug. 29, with Pons V2 accounting for 15,957 of them, or about 69.1%. The broader news flow also included a planned Sept. 15 procedural vote in the U.S. Senate on the CLARITY Act, new governance and infrastructure updates from Hyperliquid, Solana and Deribit, multiple security incidents across Cosmos-linked and other networks, and a series of market comments from figures including Tom Lee, Ki Young Ju, Ansem and Bonk Guy. In spot trading, UNI was the only gainer among the listed top-10 CEX turnover tokens, up 11.2%, while ZORA led the OKX 24-hour gainers with a 33.52% rise.

ChainCatcher reported, citing Binance spot market data, that crypto trading saw sharp price swings over the past 24 hours. KAITO posted a 13.11% decline and fell to a new low for the day. At the same time, DRAMB, ZEC and ZEN each reached their 24-hour highs, with gains of 5.51%, 5.44% and 5.46%, respectively. COTI staged a rebound after dipping lower earlier, rising 8.03%. Other tokens also showed notable moves. 0G fell 19.78% and touched a new low for the week. DODO and PORTAL both moved up before retreating, ending down 7.29% and 5.77%, respectively. NIL showed a similar pattern of rising and then pulling back, with a 10.74% decline. The data points to broad volatility across multiple tokens on Binance spot.

Crypto markets suffered heavy losses on Monday, with Bitcoin dropping over 25% to a low of $30,261. Total market cap fell to $823 billion. Analyst still sees long-term upside.

Grayscale Investments’ diversified crypto fund DLC received FINRA approval for public quotation on OTC markets. The fund holds BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, and LTC, marking the first publicly quoted security in the US backed by a diversified basket of digital currencies.