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ZEC $47M Short Squeeze and the Ironwood Catalyst
08 September 2026

ZEC $47M Short Squeeze and the Ironwood Catalyst

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Zcash is up over 2,300% year-over-year, and the tidy ETF story doesn't hold up to the math. This episode walks through the actual mechanism: a futures market dwarfing spot volume, a squeeze that liquidated 94% shorts in a single session, and one trader whose position is now large enough to pull price toward his own liquidation level. The gunpowder was laid months earlier, when a patched protocol vulnerability left a pile of stale bearish bets waiting for a match.