Binance Coin is a digital asset issued in 2017 by Binance, which is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Binance Coin (BNB) is an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain. The asset is available on most of the big centralized exchanges.
Binance Coin gets strong support both on Binance and Binance DEX. Binance users get discounts for trades with pairs that include BNB, while on Binance DEX most of the trading pairs include BNB. Due to the strong popularity of the brand, the native Binance asset has quickly became a major success and one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. It survived harsh 2018 without any notable troubles.
Zcash (ZEC) is a cryptocurrency with strong cryptography that is supposed to provide high security and privacy. At some point, Zcash was endorsed by Edward Snowden and Roger Ver. Zcash is a Bitcoin fork and it exists since 2016. The mechanism providing privacy is called zero-knowledge proofs (or zk-SNARKS).