zcash has 5m zec locked in shielded pools, 30% of supply choosing privacy features. that's actual usage not speculation. 2021 pump the shielded pool stayed flat, this time it went vertical. 7x move from $50 to $355 after breaking 4 year downtrend with real adoption backing it. naval calling it insurance against bitcoin, hayes targeting $10k, cross-chain integrations solving historic liquidity problems. coordinated or not, someone's using the privacy tech at scale for the first time ever.