According to CoinMarketCap, Uniswap executed its UNIfication on-chain, redirecting fees to buy back and burn UNI and completing an additional 100M UNI burn, a change that directly reduces token supply via fee-funded burns (source: CoinMarketCap, Jan 2, 2026). Raydium launched Raydium Perps with 100+ markets powered by Orderly, expanding derivatives trading venues and market coverage for DeFi traders (source: CoinMarketCap, Jan 2, 2026). Lifinity is shutting down after four years, with users able to redeem xLFNTY and related NFTs for USDC as part of the wind-down process (source: CoinMarketCap, Jan 2, 2026).

According to Onchain Lens, Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation proposed a UNIfication plan to activate protocol fees and burn UNI, drawing notable whale accumulation, source: Onchain Lens; data: Nansen. Three whales purchased a combined 635,680 UNI for approximately $5.56M at execution prices between $8.27 and $8.97, implying a volume-weighted average near $8.75, source: Onchain Lens; data: Nansen. Whale 0xb1f bought 254,441 UNI for $2.28M in USDT at $8.97, whale 0x0f1 bought 199,818 UNI for 504 ETH valued around $1.78M at $8.92, and whale 0x555 bought 181,421 UNI for $1.50M in USDC at $8.27, source: Onchain Lens; data: Nansen. The reported addresses are 0xb1f4f8edfbe7f41371d3b9b520da14c4927fd16d, 0x0f11d9df629d99095b772d57ae4478ba528f968a, and 0x555187752ef6d73758862b5d364aab362c996d0e, providing concrete on-chain references for tracking cost basis and liquidity bands near $8.27–$8.97, source: Onchain Lens; data: Nansen.