Monero (XMR) Rises 11% Weekly: 3 AIs Speculate Whether It Can Flip Zcash (ZEC) in 2026

Monero (XMR) gained roughly 11% in a week to trade near $600, even as most leading cryptocurrencies fell, while ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini assessed whether it could overtake Zcash (ZEC) by market capitalization in 2026. XMR remains the second-largest privacy coin behind ZEC, with a gap exceeding $8 billion. ChatGPT called a flip plausible but not most likely, noting Monero’s mandatory privacy versus Zcash’s shielded and transparent transactions, and limited exchange access; Binance delisted XMR in 2024. Perplexity rated a flip low-probability, and Gemini said it is possible but faces significant headwinds.