Zcash Shielded Supply Hits Record 5.1M as Token Outpaces Weak Market" - 10 words. Good. Or to match source more: "Zcash Shielded Supply Hits Record 5.1M as Token Defies Weak Market" - 10 words

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• Paragraph count: 7 (same as source) ✓
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• Light dry humor: "doing its best contrarian impression" or similar

Let me make one more pass:

Para 1: Make the humor subtle. "That makes it one of the few large tokens in the green this week, holding the line while its peers take a hit." That's neutral.

Let me use: "That makes it one of the few large tokens in the green — a quiet rebellion in a sea of red." Hmm, "quiet rebellion" is a bit much.

I'll go with: "That makes it one of the few large tokens in the green, doing its best contrarian impression while the majors take a hit."

Or even simpler, no humor needed in para 1.

Let me think about where humor fits best:

• Para 7 funding rate: "paying dearly for the privilege" is a nice dry touch
• Para 1: keep neutral
• Para 4: "rather than backing away from it" is already a slight zinger

OK, final version coming up.

Let me also double-check the numbers:

• 5.1 million $ZEC
• 13%
• $618
• 4.5 million $ZEC Orchard
• 592,000 Sapling
• 25,000 Sprout
• November 2024 halving
• 16.3 GH/s
• 11 GH/s 2022
• 10 GH/s 2024
• $33.73 million net buying
• $506 million BTC net selling
• $368 million open interest
• 7,190 traders
• 40.77% funding
• 10.95% BTC and ETH funding

All preserved.

Let me finalize:

TITLE: Zcash Shielded Supply Hits Record 5.1M as Token Defies Weak Market

ARTICLE: Zcash ( $ZEC ) is climbing while most of the market falls, and the reason sits on-chain rather than in the price action. $ZEC rose more than 13% over the past 24 hours to about $618, even as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana all took losses. That makes it one of the few large tokens in the green this week, doing its best contrarian impression while the majors take a hit. Two on-chain records help explain why the largest privacy coin keeps outrunning the weakness.

Zcash Shielded Supply Climbs to a Record High. The clearest signal sits in Zcash shielded supply, the amount of $ZEC held in private pools that hide transaction details. That total has climbed to about 5.1 million $ZEC , a record high. Zcash Shielded Supply: Dune Almost all of it sits in the newest pool, Orchard, which reached roughly