• Vitalik Buterin’s investment in ANON fuels privacy token surge, boosting market cap to $36M.
• Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak also backs ANON, signaling strong support for privacy-focused crypto.

The recent surge in the price of ANON tokens, which skyrocketed by 350% before stabilizing at a 190% increase, has captured significant attention in the cryptocurrency world.

This spike followed an onchain transaction revealing that Ethereum [ETH] co-founder Vitalik Buterin swapped 0.082 ETH for 30,303 ANON tokens on 20th November.

The transaction not only fueled excitement around Anoncast, a zero-knowledge app that allows users to make anonymous posts on Farcaster, but also sparked growing interest in the potential of decentralized privacy-focused solutions.

That being said, Buterin’s involvement in the ANON token transaction has highlighted the growing demand for decentralized anonymity solutions.

Tracked through his vitalik.eth address on Arkham Intelligence, the swap resulted in a sharp increase in ANON’s market capitalization, reaching over $36 million shortly after the transaction.

This move also marks Buterin’s first public investment in a token on Base, the Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase.

Remarking on the same, the anoncast X account said,

“It must be so fun for Vitalik to get lost in a crowd again”

Alongside Buterin, Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak has also shown strong support for ANON, acquiring 31,529 ANON tokens with an investment of 0.333 ETH.

This dual endorsement from leading figures in the crypto space has amplified ANON’s visibility, sparking widespread interest in its potential to revolutionize private, self-sovereign transactions.

For context, Super Anon (ANON), the native token of Anoncast, offers users the ability to make anonymous posts on Farcaster, provided they hold a minimum of 15,000 tokens.

The platform leverages zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic technique that ensures data verification without exposing any underlying details.

Following Buterin’s transaction, the token saw a dramatic surge in trading volume, skyrocketing from 105,000 to 5.6 million within an hour.

At the time of writing, ANON was trading at $0.05 per token, a significant leap from its previous price of $0.009—marking an impressive 455% increase as per DEXScreener.