According to CoinMarketCap, the core development team behind Zcash left Electric Coin Company en masse on Wednesday following a governance dispute with its nonprofit board, and has formed a new startup focused on the privacy coin, marking a significant governance and development transition for ZEC traders to track. Source: CoinMarketCap via X, Jan 8, 2026.

According to the source, a governance clash in the Zcash ecosystem triggered a sell-off in ZEC, pressuring the token’s price as noted in a post on X dated Jan 8, 2026. The source also indicates the dispute may be smaller in scope than it appears, framing the headline-driven ZEC drop as potentially overstated in the same X post.

According to @bubblemaps, tensions between the Aave DAO and Aave Labs escalated this week into a dispute over control of the protocol’s intellectual property, code, and brand, and the fight remains unresolved, Source: Bubblemaps on X, Dec 27, 2025, https://twitter.com/bubblemaps/status/2004982464230695405. For AAVE traders, the unresolved status leaves the control of key assets such as IP, code, and brand in question, which keeps governance outcomes uncertain until an official resolution is communicated, Source: Bubblemaps on X, Dec 27, 2025, https://twitter.com/bubblemaps/status/2004982464230695405. Traders should monitor official communications from Aave DAO and Aave Labs for updates on the dispute and any decisions affecting protocol IP, codebase stewardship, or brand ownership that could influence AAVE’s governance profile, Source: Bubblemaps on X, Dec 27, 2025, https://twitter.com/bubblemaps/status/2004982464230695405.