- Dash price soars 44%, approaching the $50 mark — its highest level since December 2024.
- Tornado Cash also leaps higher as tokens like Verge and Decred reflect Zcash’s gains.
- As the crypto market embraces legacy tokens, privacy coins signal a bullish comeback.
Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies staged a strong comeback this week, with Dash (DASH) rising more than 44% and other privacy tokens such as Verge (XVG) and Tornado Cash (TORN) posting notable gains.
The rebound followed a sharp rally in Zcash (ZEC) over recent weeks, which appears to have reignited investor interest in privacy-oriented digital assets.
By Friday, DASH, TORN and XVG all displayed renewed bullish momentum driven by higher trading volumes and improving sentiment — a reminder of the 2017 crypto bull market when privacy coins were among the top performers.
DASH surges 40% to lead privacy coin rally
While Zcash’s parabolic climb made headlines in recent weeks, Dash has quietly mirrored that trajectory.
At the time of writing on October 10, 2025, the privacy coin led its peers in 24-hour gains.
CoinGecko data showed Dash rising roughly 44% intraday, trading around $44.20.
The token even tested a high near $47.80, with daily volume jumping about 165% to roughly $384,000,000.
The rebound widened after Dash broke a key resistance level at $32, with both technical factors and fundamentals acting as catalysts.
Overall, the sector-wide lift in privacy coins and renewed institutional interest in DashPay contributed to bullish sentiment.
A retest of the psychological $50 level could prompt a short-term consolidation, while bulls may target $100 in the near term.
With sustained positive market momentum, medium-term targets could include $200 and the 2021 highs above $400.
That said, the weekly RSI suggests the possibility of a pullback.
Horizen, Tornado Cash also climb
Dash’s surge forms part of a broader, synchronized rebound across the privacy-coin sector, which has gained fresh momentum as interest in zero-knowledge technologies and privacy-centric protocols increases.
CoinGecko showed the sector up about 14% over the past 24 hours, supported by Verge (XVG) — up 21% to $0.008 — and Tornado Cash (TORN) — up 26% to $18.95.
Those gains mirror Zcash’s rapid advance, which recently reached $268 on major exchanges and sparked widespread bullish sentiment.
Railgun (RAIL) also jumped roughly 70%, reflecting investor enthusiasm for privacy infrastructure tied to shielded transactions and zero-knowledge proof systems.
The rally coincides with an “Uptober” narrative that has buoyed broader crypto market sentiment. With renewed speculation and growing demand for decentralized anonymity solutions, privacy tokens have emerged among the sector’s top performers.