According to an official announcement, to protect users and maintain a high-quality trading market, Binance will remove and discontinue trading several spot trading pairs. These include: 0G/BNB, 1MBABYDOGE/FDUSD, ADX/ETH, AGLD/BTC, ALT/FDUSD, ARKM/BTC, ATOM/ETH, BTC/ZAR, ENS/BTC, ETH/ZAR, HOLO/BNB, HOLO/FDUSD, MOVR/BTC, NEWT/FDUSD, OP/ETH, ORDI/BTC, OXT/BTC, POLYX/BTC, SLP/ETH, SSV/BTC, STO/FDUSD, STORJ/BTC, and TRB/BTC. The removal will take place on January 20, 2026 at 08:00 (UTC). Simultaneously, Binance will terminate its spot trading bot service for these pairs at the aforementioned time. Users are advised to update or cancel their spot trading bots before this date to avoid potential losses. Please note that removing the spot trading pair does not affect the availability of the related tokens on Binance Spot; users can still trade these assets on other available trading pairs. (This news item was generated with AI assistance.)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Vitalik Buterin has stated he is "significantly more inclined to support native rollups" compared to the past. Vitalik recalled that a key reason for his previous opposition to native rollups was that their pre-compiled solutions required a choice between ZK mode and Optimistic mode. At the time, ZK-EVM was still immature, and L2 often opted for the latter—"faster withdrawals but with self-provided risk"—rather than "relying on Ethereum's security but requiring a 2-7 day wait for withdrawals," thus weakening Ethereum's composability and promoting the adoption of multi-signature bridges and other solutions. Vitalik points out that the situation is changing: Ethereum's timeline for fully adopting ZK at the L1 level is gradually aligning with the actual progress of introducing native rollup pre-compilations, and the aforementioned core obstacle is expected to be eliminated. He also mentioned that the community is increasingly valuing "synchronous composability" as one of the core values of L2 and is exploring combining rollup-based solutions with low-latency pre-confirmation mechanisms. Furthermore, Vitalik emphasized that the design of native Rollup pre-compilation should not be hastily implemented. He proposed that in the future, Rollup should have the following property: if developers build a Rollup with "EVM plus a few extended functions", they can directly reuse the EVM part of the native Rollup pre-compilation and only introduce a custom proof system for the new functions, connecting the two in a standardized way.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Starknet's ecosystem perpetual contract DEX, Paradex, announced on its maintenance page that the team has located the root cause of the current issue and plans to roll back the chain state to block height 1604710 (UTC time 04:27:54). This block corresponds to the state before the database maintenance began and is currently the last confirmed normal state. Paradex stated that after the rollback is complete, all user accounts will be uniformly restored to the state before the database maintenance.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Vitalik Buterin has stated that the current practice of DAOs in the crypto industry has deviated from the original vision, necessitating a rethinking and construction of a "different and better DAO design." Vitalik points out that Ethereum's initial concept was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations, but today DAOs are often simplified into "treasuries controlled by token voting," which, while functional in form, are inefficient, easily manipulated, and fail to truly alleviate the problems arising from human political games. Vitalik emphasizes that DAOs remain indispensable infrastructure, with applications including: improving oracle design, implementing on-chain dispute arbitration, maintaining various key lists, quickly launching short-term collaborative projects, and supporting long-term project maintenance after the original team leaves. He believes the current problem lies not in participant motivation, but in the inadequacy of system design itself, including governance and oracles. Regarding governance frameworks, Vitalik introduced the analytical perspective of the "concave vs. convexity problem," arguing that different types of problems require different governance structures: scenarios favoring consensus and robustness should emphasize broad participation and resistance to manipulation; while scenarios requiring decisive decision-making should allow for leadership, balanced by decentralized mechanisms. Vitalik further pointed out that for DAOs to truly function, they must address the two major challenges of privacy and decision fatigue, and can alleviate the governance burden by leveraging privacy technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and multi-party computation, as well as AI and consensus-based communication tools. He emphasized that AI should not replace human judgment, but rather serve as a tool to amplify and assist human intentions. Finally, Vitalik stated that future DAO designs need to consider governance mechanisms, privacy technologies, and communication layers as core components, not subordinate modules, to ensure the continued decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum underlying layer in its upper-layer applications.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul Customs Service recently busted a gang involved in illegal foreign exchange transactions using domestic and overseas cryptocurrency accounts, with the amount involved reaching 148.9 billion won (approximately US$113 million). The gang received payments through WeChat Pay and Alipay, purchased overseas cryptocurrencies, transferred them to local wallets, and then cashed them out, suspected of violating the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act. Three suspects, including a Chinese man in his 30s, were apprehended. Their business covered trade, education, and cosmetic surgery, even soliciting clients by offering foreign exchange for surgery fees. The case has been transferred to the prosecution.