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Where to buy Zcash (ZEC) in the United States

The exchanges and buying apps we rank that serve the United States and list ZEC/USD, ordered by the fee for your purchase. Every fee has its source and the day we read it.

Excluding spread: the gap between the price you are charged and the market price is not measured yet, so no figure here is your whole cost.

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$500.00 of ZEC in the United States: the lowest fee for this purchase is Bitstamp's, $2.00.

Fee: bitstamp.net/fee-schedule, read 28 October 2026ZEC/USD listed: bitstamp.net/api/v2/trading-pairs-info, read 29 October 2026

Excluding spread: not measured yet.

Lowest fee for this purchase (3)

Each row serves the United States and lists ZEC/USD. Ordered by fee; a tie keeps each list's published order. This is a fee sort for one purchase, not our ranking.

Fee in the spread, not measured (1)

These apps charge through the price they quote rather than a separate fee. Until the spread is measured they are not compared on fee.

Listed, but not priced (1)

Not confirmed (5)

We could not confirm whether these serve the United States and list ZEC/USD. Each says why.

  • ZEC/USD listing not confirmed

    What the read found

    not read: OKX Terms of Service 9.4 says 'You may not use the OKX Platform or the Services for any commercial purpose unless otherwise explicitly authorized by OKX' (https://www.okx.com/help/terms-of-service, read 2026-10-29), so the public instruments endpoint was not used; the markets pages render client-side and a headless render was refused in this session; needs a hand read of the markets page or OKX's consent

    United States: state money-transmitter licences are not on file here, so whether it is licensed in your state is not known.

  • ZEC/USD listing not confirmed

    What the read found

    Walled: https://www.coinbase.com/explore and https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/cryptocurrencies-and-trading-pairs/supported-cryptocurrencies both returned HTTP 403 cf-mitigated: challenge on 2026-10-29 (curl); a rendered retry was not run (bot-check circumvention not permitted). The api.coinbase.com/v2/currencies/crypto list is coin-level only (no fiat pairing, no region, no buyability) and is not a retail simple-buy pair list; Coinbase Exchange order books not borrowed. Regions here are the fiat home region, not a sourced serving region.

    United States: state money-transmitter licences are not on file here, so whether it is licensed in your state is not known.

  • ZEC/USD listing not confirmed

    What the read found

    https://uphold.com/en-us/prices (rendered) shows the first 25 assets by market cap then 'Show more assets'; ZEC not among them and the full list was not loaded, so absence is not bounded. api.uphold.com/v0/assets not used: Developer Agreement requires developers to 'Be a verified user of Uphold'.

    United States: state money-transmitter licences are not on file here, so whether it is licensed in your state is not known.

  • ZEC/USD listing not confirmed

    What the read found

    Walled: https://www.fidelity.com/crypto/overview returned HTTP 403 "Access Denied" (server AkamaiGHost, no cf-mitigated header; reference 18.56c5dd58.1793274812.2974e6e) to a curl fetch from Germany on 2026-10-29; no rendered retry (bot-check circumvention not permitted). Regions are the fiat home region, not a sourced serving region.

    United States: state money-transmitter licences are not on file here, so whether it is licensed in your state is not known.

  • ZEC/USD listing not confirmed

    What the read found

    US Cryptocurrency Terms (https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/cryptocurrencies-tnc) say "The list of Crypto Assets supported by PayPal Digital at any given time can be found in your Crypto Account."; the terms' per-asset send minimums name BCH, BTC, ETH, LTC, SOL, LINK, PYUSD and the US crypto page names "Bitcoin, Ethereum, PayPal USD (PYUSD) and more"; ZEC not named, but the authoritative list is in-app only, so absence is not bounded.

    United States: state money-transmitter licences are not on file here, so whether it is licensed in your state is not known.

Do not list ZEC/USD (3)

18 other products we rank do not serve the United States, so they are not shown.

How this is computed

  • Rows: every exchange and buying app we rank that serves the United States (our country test, the one the rankings use) and lists ZEC/USD in its own market list or pages, read 29 October 2026.
  • Fee = amount × fee rate + fixed fee per purchase (at least the minimum fee, where one is published).
  • Exchanges: the taker fee of a market order, at the rate the entity that serves your country publishes.
  • Buying apps: their published purchase fee: a share of the purchase plus any fixed fee per purchase.
  • The figure is computed by the same cost engine as the job views and the rankings' cost column.
  • The spread (the gap between the price you are charged and the market price) is not measured yet, so it is excluded from every figure. Not counted yet: the spread, deposit and card fees, network fees and withdrawal fees.
  • This page sorts by fee for one purchase. It never changes our ranking, which scores much more than fees.
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The fees come from the Exchanges review read on the date below, and from the fee and listing reads named on each row.

Reviewed
Re-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.
Methodology v2026.10.18
How this page is reviewed

Reviewed means every product ranked on this page was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.

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