
What Is Horizen And How To Buy It
Horizen is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain network. Its goal is to solve the scaling and security issues found in networks like Ethereum.

Horizen is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and blockchain network. Its goal is to solve the scaling and security issues found in networks like Ethereum.
Markets
Privacy tokens are staging a dramatic rally, posting double-digit gains even as the broader digital asset market suffers a significant downturn. On Tuesday, while Bitcoin dipped below $104,000 and total crypto liquidations again exceeded $1 billion, privacy tokens saw gains. Dash surged by 47.5% over the past 24 hours, according to crypto price aggregator CoinGecko. Other tokens in the sector, including Decred, Horizen, and Secret, joined the rally with gains of 90%, 10%, and 23% respectively. Z...
Business
Crypto exchange Binance has added a "monitoring tag" to a list of cryptocurrencies including privacy coins Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Firo (FIRO). In an announcement, Binance said that tokens with the monitoring tag "exhibit notably higher volatility and risks compared to other listed tokens," and are "at risk of no longer meeting our listing criteria" and being delisted from the exchange. It added that tokens with the monitoring tag are subject to regular reviews. Criteria con...
The Projects
Depending on who you ask, blockchains are either too slow, too public, or too centralized. Horizen is attempting to solve all three with their combination of privacy tools, nodes, and sidechains. Below we explore what Horizen is, how it works, and how it's trying to solve crypto's privacy problem. What is Horizen? The core feature of the Horizen blockchain is privacy. Since its launch as ZenCash, the network has used zero-knowledge proofs to make its ZEN currency untraceable and unwatchable bet...