Huobi HTX has launched AERGO perpetual contracts and kicked off a contract trading party.

On January 28, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) took to social media to note that recent organized attacks have targeted the "buy and hold" narrative—with numerous unrecognized accounts suddenly flooding the platform with nearly identical, copy-pasted tweets. Previously, CZ stated yesterday that few trading strategies outperform the simple "buy and hold" approach, urging users to hold through the crypto bear market. His comment, however, drew community pushback. @WazzCrypto cited data showing: "If you’d purchased every coin listed on Binance last year, your portfolio would be nearly zero." Responding to the criticism this morning, CZ clarified: "This strategy obviously doesn’t apply to all cryptocurrencies. It’s analogous to buying every internet or AI project/company—most will fail in any industry, but a handful of successful ones will see exponential growth."

On January 28, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) took to social media, saying: "When you aim to transform the world and drive global change, it often comes with plenty of discussion, questions, and differing opinions. This isn’t unique to any single industry—rather, it’s a process that’s repeated throughout history with all structural shifts. The debates around the crypto space and Binance are complex, stemming from both emotional swings tied to market cycles and divergences in business competition, models, and stances." "Unlike traditional assets, which have undergone hundreds or even thousands of years of development and user education, the crypto industry is still in a relatively early stage—volatility and controversy are unavoidable here. Standing at this historical turning point, the FOMO (fear of missing out) around gold and silver isn’t surprising. Thanks to the time lag effect, the era of Bitcoin (digital gold) is inevitable." "It’s surprising that Twitter has become just

On January 28th, Binance announced details of the Zama (ZAMA) Token Prime Sale: - Each user has a subscription limit of 3 BNB. - Users will receive ZAMA Key (BSC) following the Pre-TGE phase. - ZAMA tokens (BSC) will be airdropped to Alpha accounts on TGE day. **Additional Reward**: Users who subscribe to ZAMA Keys during the Pre-TGE Prime Sale period will earn 1 extra ZAMA Token for every successfully subscribed ZAMA Key (double allocation). These reward tokens will be distributed on TGE day.

As of January 28, per official sources, Binance will conduct auto-deleveraging on its USD-margined perpetual contracts for 42USDT, COMMONUSDT, CUDISUSDT, and EPTUSDT on January 30, 2026, at 5:00 PM UTC+8. Following the auto-deleveraging process, the exchange will delist these four perpetual contract trading pairs.

January 28: Per HyperInsight monitoring (link: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the address 0xd475... (formerly the largest ZEC short holder) restarted a ZEC short position today. It currently holds a 5x-leveraged ZEC short of ~2,822 ZEC, valued at roughly $1.1012 million, with an average entry price of $391. The position is currently slightly in the red, and as of press time, it’s still being increased. This address is known for building large ZEC short positions: it initiated ZEC shorts at $184, once faced up to $21 million in unrealized losses, then closed the position for a profit. Currently, it holds an $80 million massive short position on ETH.