Privacy coins surge 80% as Zcash and Dash hit multi-year highs, driven by rotation, halving hype and renewed demand for transaction privacy.
Bradley Peak
Bradley Peak is a DeFi and blockchain journalist, token economist, presenter, entrepreneur and Web3 adviser. He works closely with brands such as Cointelegraph, CoinsPaid, Symbiosis.finance and Sumsub to drive adoption in the Web3 space. Bradley holds an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Classics and Classical Languages from King’s College London. A self-taught fluent Russian speaker, he is frequently invited to both Russian- and English-language crypto podcasts, including Golos Singulyarnosti and Swapspace.
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