Remember when Zcash was getting all the attention and I said Monero would be the bigger play? At the time, $XMR around $500 already looked expensive to a lot of people. Today, Monero is trading around $620, and the call is starting to play out. My thesis was simple: privacy isn’t going away, and Monero remains one of the strongest pure privacy plays in crypto. And the timing matters. We’ve just seen critical PHP vulnerabilities trigger millions of exploitation attempts, while the recent Railway breach was linked by blockchain investigator Taylor Monahan to roughly $371,000 in crypto theft across 19 chains. As cybercrime keeps getting more sophisticated, the market is being reminded why truly private settlement still has value, including for legitimate users who simply do not want every transaction permanently exposed. I said it would happen slowly, then suddenly. $1,000 $XMR doesn’t sound nearly as crazy anymore.