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On January 12, Binance is set to list United Stables (U) and launch a zero-fee trading event.

Jan. 12 – Stacy Muur of the Crypto Research Institute noted that market data shows privacy-focused crypto assets are shifting from niche to mainstream attention. As of 2025, privacy coins have collectively outperformed Bitcoin and Ethereum, demonstrating stronger resilience amid market volatility. Meanwhile, on-chain adoption continues to grow, with their transaction share rising from ~9.7% to 11.4%. Currently, Monero and Zcash still lead in privacy transaction volume, and the total market cap of privacy-focused projects has topped $24 billion. Several infrastructure teams are now rearchitecting privacy features as a default blockchain layer—not an optional add-on—indicating privacy is emerging as a core component of underlying architecture. This trend looks like a long-term shift, not a short-term rotation. Amid growing global regulation and enhanced on-chain surveillance, demand for on-chain anonymity and transaction privacy is on the rise. Privacy coins and related tools are p

On January 12th, per monitoring from HyperInsight (Telegram: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the "short-to-medium-term high-accuracy" whale at address 0x3a447 opened a 40x leveraged long position of 11.6 BTC (≈$1.06 million) at 14:31. The average entry price was $92,059.5, and the position is currently in a slight unrealized loss.

As of January 12, Coinglass data shows that over the past 24 hours, centralized exchanges (CEXs) recorded a net inflow of 1,348.39 BTC. The top three CEXs by net inflow are: - OKX: 2,032.70 BTC net inflow - Coinbase Pro: 244.26 BTC net inflow - Bybit: 121.37 BTC net inflow Additionally, Binance posted a net outflow of 876.66 BTC, leading the net outflow rankings.

Binance announced on January 12 that it will launch the following spot trading pairs on January 13, 2026, at 8:00 UTC: LINK/USD1, PEPE/USD1, USDC/MXN. Additionally, Spot Algorithm Orders (trading bot services) will be available for these same three pairs simultaneously.