The privacy-focused altcoin, which has performed extremely well this year, reminded investors of the exciting days of the bull. It is still at an extremely good level and they have announced new updates. We cover the details of Zebra 3.1 and price expectations for ZEC Coin.
Zebra 3.1 Update
Zcash FoundationZebra released version 3.1.0. The new version, which improves Docker support, also improves the RPC interface. Docker infrastructure has been updated from Debian Bookworm to Trixie and multi-architecture manifest logic has been fixed.
“This resolves previous issues where ARM users could receive incompatible images, making Zebra available on devices such as Apple Silicon and cloud ARM instances. Zebra 3.1.0 introduces a mempool filter that rejects transactions with extremely small outputs (“.dust”), often used in spam or disruptive activity. By filtering these transactions from the mempool before they can propagate, Zebra helps protect the network from certain spam vectors and reduces resource usage by node operators.” – Zcash Foundation

Increased maximum size for RPC responses became configurable and robust to large queries was introduced. last update zcashd’s It’s the latest step towards ensuring its deprecation. The team wants to make Zebra a modern, Rust-based Zcash node, making blockchain better for operators and developers. Of course, there are no serious differences for the end user, but these improvements in the general network structure ZEC Coin positive for.
ZEC Coin 2026 Predictions
Continuing the day with a 10% increase ZEC Coin It is in pretty good condition. Although it dropped to $300 in December, ZEC Coin did not fall as much as feared after a 12x rise this year. It’s only 42% below the peak. However, it is still 600% higher than it was 81 days ago, when the rise began.

Maintaining $300 as support is hopeful for bigger peaks in the new year. Its advantage is that it is among the largest privacy-focused altcoins, and even the SEC understands and even supports privacy concerns in crypto. Having reclaimed the second important support point, $376, ZEC Coin now enters the new year targeting the $445 support.
If this support is gained in January, we can see the price return to the range of $485 and $608. The next target will be the $741 resistance and the journey to greater ATH will begin in 2026.

