{"id":75735,"date":"2026-03-10T17:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75735"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:31:47","slug":"zcash-rallies-5-after-25-million-funding-round-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=75735","title":{"rendered":"Zcash Rallies 5% After $25 Million Funding Round: What&#8217;s Going On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Zcash<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ZEC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ZEC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/zec\/usd\">ZEC<\/a>) surged 5% on Tuesday, following Zcash Open Development Lab\u2019s announcement of over $25 million in seed funding from Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $25M ZODL Funding Round<\/h3>\n<p><strong>ZODL <\/strong>was founded by <strong>Josh Swihart<\/strong>, former CEO of <strong>Electric Coin Company<\/strong>. Under his leadership, ECC launched the flagship Zcash wallet Zodl, setting a new standard for Zcash usability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2024, the app drove growth in the Zcash shielded pool by over 400% and facilitated more than $600 million in ZEC swaps since October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the entire ECC team including the product team behind the wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49783280\/zec-crashes-16-what-happened-to-the-xrp-killer\">joined<\/a> ZODL to continue building the primary user interface for Zcash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zodl_app\/status\/2030995832808288659\">centers<\/a> on developing Zodl as an open, self-custodial private financial platform designed to expand ecosystem &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51167362\/zcash-rallies-5-after-25-million-funding-round-whats-going-on?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Zcash\" rallies after million funding round: what going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zcash (CRYPTO: ZEC) surged 5% on Tuesday, following Zcash Open Development Lab\u2019s announcement of over $25 million in seed funding from Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. The $25M ZODL Funding Round ZODL was founded by Josh Swihart, former CEO of Electric Coin Company. Under his leadership, ECC launched the flagship Zcash wallet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-75735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}