Shifting Market Sentiment Towards Privacy Coins
Since October, privacy coins have become a dominant theme in the cryptocurrency market. ZEC experienced a significant peak increase of approximately 913% in the past month, with DASH following closely with a maximum increase of 581%. This market frenzy has brought a new name to the forefront: INI.
The price of $INI has seen a notable surge, climbing from a low of $0.0209 in September to $0.059, representing an increase of over 182%. INI not only surpassed its previous high of $0.057 but has also maintained a daily growth rate exceeding 10% for the past seven consecutive days. This performance has led traders, institutions, and the broader community to regard INI as the "next leader in the privacy race."
The market logic is clearly shifting, moving INI from an undervalued asset to a focal point of attention.
INIChain: Evolving Privacy Beyond Transaction Anonymity
While established privacy coins like ZEC and DASH have experienced significant price appreciation, capital is now actively seeking the "next narrative successor." The emergence of INIChain signifies the next evolutionary phase of privacy technology, moving from "transaction anonymity" to "computational and application privacy."
ZEC primarily addresses "transaction privacy" but lacks a scalable application ecosystem. In contrast, INIChain achieves "full-stack privacy" capabilities by integrating TFHE and EVM. This integration enables private computation, AI invocation, compliant payments, and DePIN collaboration directly on-chain. This represents not merely a privacy upgrade but a fundamental reconstruction of the entire "privacy capability system."
Over the past three years, the InitVerse team has built a strong foundation across technology and its ecosystem:
- •The INIChain mainnet operates with industry-leading network performance, innovative privacy algorithms, and EVM compatibility.
- •The ecosystem comprises 19 modules, including INISaaS, MANANA, MySwap, and INI Cloud Mining.
- •A consensus network is forming, composed of over 500,000 community participants and more than 20,000 depositing users, creating a new synergy of value.
These accumulated achievements provide a solid basis for the current market repricing of INI.
The Multifaceted Role of the $INI Token
$INI serves as the "Energy System" for the privacy ecosystem. Unlike traditional tokens with singular functions, $INI's core value lies in its three distinct roles:
- Representation of computing power: It functions as an output for Proof-of-Work and accounts for cloud computing power consumption.
- Governance token: It grants DAO voting rights and participation in ecosystem decision-making.
- Value carrier: It is an essential token for ecosystem circulation and payment settlements.
Every decentralized application (DApp) call, every instance of cloud computing power consumption, and every SaaS service payment necessitates the involvement of $INI. This inherent utility means that the expansion of the INIChain ecosystem will continuously drive actual demand for $INI. When "ecosystem demand" aligns with "market sentiment," price increases transition from speculative to being driven by structural supply and demand dynamics.
Valuation Potential: From 100x to 1000x Imagination
Considering the market capitalization of popular privacy coins, such as ZEC with approximately $8.788 billion and DASH with approximately $915 million, INI presents a significant value gap. As a privacy sector asset that has not yet entered mainstream capital's purview, it can be viewed as an "untapped gold mine" within the crypto industry.
If the total market capitalization of the privacy sector were to reach $100 billion in the future – a conservative estimate based on the current combined size of the RWA and AI sectors – and INI were to capture just 10% of this market share, its potential market capitalization would reach $10 billion. Even achieving one-tenth of this target in the short term would result in a price increase of over 300 times from its current level. From a price perspective, with $INI currently trading at $0.059, if the upward trend continues and ecosystem expansion materializes, INI is estimated to have an upside potential of approximately 400% to 800% in the near term.
This potential is underpinned by a combination of factors: technological leadership through its TFHEVM full-stack privacy architecture; alignment with trending narratives such as privacy, AI, RWA, and DePIN; substantial funding support, with the Prometheus Phase II $100 million fund set to launch; and market validation, evidenced by seven consecutive days of steady growth and the breaking of previous highs. When market sentiment, technological logic, and capital flow converge, INI emerges as a rare asset possessing both "real growth" and "imagination potential."
The Next Cycle: Transitioning from Construction to Explosive Growth
InitVerse's new "Three-Year Plan" has been officially announced and initiated, marking a strategic shift in the ecosystem from "team building" to "global co-construction." Key initiatives include the continuation of the Prometheus Project's second round, which will release $100 million in ecosystem support funds. Development efforts will focus on ecosystem applications, particularly in the areas of privacy + RWA, AI + DePIN, on-chain credit, and privacy payments. The DAO governance mechanism is nearing its launch, and the foundation's address is now fully transparent. These are not merely plans but represent concrete actions and strong indicators of future growth, attracting new funds, projects, and developers to InitVerse.
As the momentum of ZEC potentially wanes, the rise of INI signals a new dawn. The market consistently rewards early adopters who "discover first." While many are still focused on the final price surges of ZEC and DASH, astute investors have already begun positioning themselves for the "new core" of the next privacy cycle.
The increase in INI's price is not an anomaly but an inevitable outcome driven by its robust technological foundation, a clear ecosystem direction, genuine on-chain growth data, and, crucially, its position at the "early inflection point" of the privacy narrative.
When the market inevitably asks who will lead the next phase of the privacy race, the answer may already be evident in INI's current price trajectory.