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# ZEC this week: +36% in seven days, negative funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/zec-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:34:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:34:28.000Z
- Description: Zcash closed the week at $1,155.16 (+36.4% in 7 days, +121.4% in 30). Market cap, the seven-day range and what the ZIPMEX perp market is charging to hold a position, with sources.
- Author: ZIPMEX
- Tags: ZEC, Cryptocurrency

Zcash (ZEC) trades at $1,155.16 on September 8, 2026: -2.8% over 24 hours, +36.4% over seven days and +121.4% over thirty. That leaves it 64% below the all-time high of $3,191.93 set on 2016-10-28\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $1,155.16 |
| ----------------------- | --------- |
| 24 hours                | \-2.8%    |
| 7 days                  | +36.4%    |
| 30 days                 | +121.4%   |
| Market cap              | $19.6B    |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $912.5M   |
| Market rank             | #9        |
| Perp open interest      | $347.7K   |
| Perp 24h volume         | $664.0K   |
| Max leverage            | 20x       |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the ZEC/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of -0.0016% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0058%), $347.7K of open interest and $664.0K traded in 24 hours. Negative funding means shorts are paying longs: leveraged traders lean bearish. Max leverage is 20x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $1,246.06 on 2026-09-06 and the low $794.98 on 2026-09-02, a 57% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 2.8x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:34 UTC. Price, supply and market cap: CoinGecko. Perps: ZIPMEX Perps public market data. Volume across all venues and all-time high: aggregated market data. This digest is generated from those feeds and reviewed by ZIPMEX Research; numbers on the [ZEC landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/zec/) refresh every minute.

*Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.*

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