$ZEC was cooking for months. Pumped past the 700s in 2025 and stayed strong on privacy narratives. Then suddenly, the entire core dev team at Electric Coin Company walked away after a governance fight with the Bootstrap board. Price retraced 10% in minutes. But the chain didn’t die. → It’s still running → Shielded transactions still work → Developers say they’re regrouping under a new structure with the same mission. Short term volatility. Long term depends on how governance gets resolved and who ends up taking over upgrades. Privacy isn’t dead. But trust structures matter.