How to Track Your Zcash Holdings Privately
June 9, 2026
If you hold Zcash for privacy, using a cloud portfolio tracker that wants your email and your wallet addresses is a step backwards. Here is how to track ZEC while staying private.
Why not just paste your address?
Shielded Zcash (z-addresses) cannot be read from the public blockchain — that is the whole point. Only transparent t-addresses expose a balance. So address-based trackers either see nothing or expose your transparent activity.
The private approach: record your own transactions
- Note each buy and sell: amount, price, and date.
- Enter them into a local tracker that computes your holdings and profit/loss.
- Refresh prices from a public source — that request reveals only the coin name, not your balance.
Do it with Privacy Coin Tracker
Privacy Coin Tracker is a free Windows app that follows exactly this model. Your transactions live in a local database on your PC; only public price lookups leave your machine. It shows your ZEC quantity, average cost, current value, and realized/unrealized P&L.
Download Privacy Coin Tracker and set up your Zcash portfolio in a couple of minutes.