Traders are aligning with key opinion leaders who are calling for quantum-secure assets, elevating Zcash price predictions with exposure to the emerging narrative.

The altcoin is gaining momentum as a hedge against future quantum vulnerabilities, a theme expected to underpin 2026 due to both technological urgency and investor sentiment.

Quantum-resistant tokens have reached a combined market cap of $8.75 billion, with daily trading volume consistently above $1 billion — a sign of strong activity and liquidity.

Speaking at the Devconnect conference in 2025, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that quantum breakthroughs could threaten blockchain cryptography as soon as 2028.

His push for quantum-resistant protocols has accelerated research and shifted capital toward future-proof projects, with Zcash emerging as the current market leader.

Zcash has found new relevance in this institution-led market cycle: Institutional use-cases require high-security rails that offer privacy, yet are compliant with selective disclosure.

This duality of leading narratives between privacy coins and quantum resistance could position ZEC for significant inflows.

Zcash Price Prediction: Massive Run Incoming?

While ZEC has seen a significant unwind over November, it could amount to a brief consolidation in a wider uptrend with the formation of a bullish pennant pattern.

The pattern currently faces a key test as its lower boundary is retested alongside supportive momentum indicators.

The RSI teeters on a cross above the 50 neutral line with several retests while the MACD closes in on a golden cross. Both show brewing buy pressure and the potential for a fresh uptrend.

The key threshold for a confirmed breakout is all-time highs around $760. Flipping this level to support would confirm the push into new price discovery.

Fully realised, the pennant pattern eyes a measured 265% move to $1,750.

However, as the bull market matures and the privacy coin and quantum resistance narrative grow in relevance, a 950% push to the $5,000 milestone could in focus.

SUBBD: Another Narrative To Watch

As regulation brings narratives based in real-world utility like privacy coins and quantum resistance to the forefront, platforms like SUBBD ($SUBBD) are gaining traction.

Positioned as an AI-powered content platform, SUBBD is redefining the $85 billion subscriber economy by giving creators true ownership and fans genuine access.

By cutting out the middlemen, $SUBDD puts control back in the hands of those who create real value.

Creators can monetize directly, while fans gain access to exclusive content, early releases, and meaningful interactions through token-gated perks.

The concept is already gaining traction. $SUBBD has surpassed $1.3 million in presale, as investors back the shift toward a decentralized creator economy.

With SUBBD, both sides of the community win — creators earn more, and fans get closer while embracing the decentralization use cases crypto was built for.

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Inaugural awards celebrate the pioneers turning quantum’s promise into real-world impact, bridging theory and practice in the next era of secure computing  Boca Raton, FL, November 20, 2025 — Techstrong Group, in collaboration with DigiCert, today announced the launch of Quantum Security 25, a new awards program recognizing the top 25 most influential people in..

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Cisco’s Quantum Labs research team, part of Outshift by Cisco, has announced that they have completed a complete software solution prototype. The latest part is the Cisco Quantum Complier prototype, designed for distributed quantum computing across networked processors. In short, it allows a network of quantum computers, of all types, to participate in solving a single problem. Even better, this new compiler supports distributed quantum error correction. Instead of a quantum computer needing to have a huge number of qbits itself, the load can be spread out among multiple quantum computers. This coordination is handled across a quantum network, powered by Cisco’s Quantum Network entanglement chip, which was announced in May 2025. This network could also be used to secure communications for traditional servers as well.

For some quick background – one of the factors holding quantum computers back is the lack of quantity and quality when it comes to qubits. Most of the amazing things quantum computers can in theory do require thousands or millions of qubits. Today we have systems with around a thousand qubits. But those qubits need to be quality qubits. Qubits are extremely susceptible to outside interference. Qubits need to be available in quantity as well as quality. To fix the quality problem, there has been a considerable amount of work performed on error correction for qubits. But again, most quantum error correction routines require even more qubits to create logical ‘stable’ qubits. Research has been ongoing across the industry – everyone is looking for a way to create large amounts of stable qubits.

What Cisco is proposing is that instead of making a single quantum processor bigger to have more qubits, multiple quantum processors can be strung together with their quantum networking technology and the quality of the transmitted qubits should be ensured with distributed error correction. It’s an intriguing idea – as Cisco more or less points out we didn’t achieve scale with traditional computing by simply making a single CPU bigger and bigger until it could handle all tasks. Instead, multiple CPUs were integrated on a server and then those servers networked together to share the load. That makes good sense, and it’s an interesting approach. Just like with traditional CPUs, quantum processors will not suddenly stop growing – but if this works it will allow scaling of those quantum processors on a smaller scale, possibly ushering in useful, practical quantum computing sooner.

Is this the breakthrough needed to bring about the quantum computing revolution? At this point it’s a prototype – not an extensively tested method. Quantum computing requires so much fundamental physics research and is so complicated that its extremely hard to say if what Cisco is suggesting can usher in that new quantum age. But it is extremely interesting, and it will certainly be worth watching this approach as Cisco ramps up its efforts in quantum technologies.