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Binance Listing Rumors and RuneMine Collab Spark Hope

Runes, those relics that had long been dismissed as dead (for the 5th time and counting,) are back in the spotlight with two game-changing developments:

• fairly decent evidence of impending Binance listings

• a strategic partnership between RuneMine and Runes.com.

These moves mark a turning point for Runes, addressing the long-standing liquidity and adoption challenges.

Binance Listing Looms

First off, something we know you’ve been waiting for. Recent transaction activity suggests Binance may be preparing to list Runes at last!

Over 700 pages of Rune transfers, involving 200+ Binance-linked accounts and deposits into exchanges like Bybit, MEXC, and Wintermute, all point to this preparation.

A Cointelegraph report further confirms Binance’s interest:

"Binance... is nominating the top three Runes (fungible tokens on Bitcoin) for futures listing."

If true, this would open Runes to unprecedented exposure, massive trading volumes, and improved liquidity.

However, many commentators are advocating for a spot listing instead of futures, to avoid initial volatility and insider manipulation. It’s well known at this point that a futures listing is a short-term death knell for 99% of coins. We certainly don’t need more of that!

RuneMine x Runes.com Partnership

Alongside the Binance rumors, RuneMine and Runes.com have announced a partnership to revolutionize the Runes and Solana ecosystems. The collaboration includes:

• MineBridge Update: Five new Rune listings, including Cypher Genesis and Memento Mori, debuting on January 22 to boost accessibility and trading.

• Liquidity Injection: Expanded Solana pools for larger trades with lower slippage, driving adoption.

• BDC Integration: The long-awaited reunification of BILLION•DOLLAR•CAT SPL ($BDC).

This partnership aims to overcome liquidity bottlenecks, enhance cross-chain functionality, and reinvigorate the ecosystem which has been dominated by Magic Eden so far.

They wrote us off again! In Issue #97, we highlighted the grave-dancing taking place and how, historically, this has often been a bottom signal. The real ones saw the FUD and smiled like a Cheshire cat.

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Todays Markets

Catch up with Landy in yesterday’s Macro Monday session:

Ordinals

“DID YOU FADE ME, ANON?”

With that out of the way, take a look—what a sight for sore eyes! The green in the floor price column is beautiful to see as we slowly crawl out of the abyss of the past 4–5 days of people rotating into Solana shitcoinery. Floors are still down on most collections from what many would consider “so back,” but there’s hope on the horizon.

OMB pumps 26% since yesterday following the appearance of their new collection being inscribed. No details have been released yet, but you can head to ord.io to check out what the White Eyes look like.

Based Angels get a solid pump, moving them into 4th place for the day, while Bitcoin Frogs leap back into 5th after a long absence from the top half of the volume chart.

I’ll be honest: at this point, I have no idea what’s going on with the Unsanctioned Wizards/$WZRD soap opera, and I’m too afraid to ask. After some mint-day difficulties that caused a 2-day delay (issues happen—anyone remember the Bitcoin Puppets mint?!), we woke up today to see their floor price has taken a healthy pullback of 82%.

The lore runs deep in this ecosystem, so here’s a callout: if anyone wants to appear as a guest on our XO Weekly Show and help us get up to speed on what’s transpired, we’d love to hear from you.

Runes

Runes emerged as the unexpected winners on Inauguration Day, while almost everything else continued to bleed. This was primarily due to the lack of confidence in the market following the traumatic launches of $TRUMP and $MELANIA on Solana.

With the news emerging that Binance is reportedly preparing to list Runes, focusing on the top three: $DOG, $PUPS, and $BDC, these are speculated to be the frontrunners due to their market cap size and consistent performance in previous months. Naturally, people are flocking to Runes to try to front-run this event.

$PUPS stands out as the day’s big winner, being the only Rune currently listed on Moonshot—a platform that has gained huge traction and onboarded many new users since last week.

$RSIC is up 21%, but with confirmation that the next phase (whatever it may be) won’t arrive until March, it’s likely to retrace as holders weigh the opportunity cost of holding it for two months.

A side note: $WZRD is expected to migrate from BRC-20 in February, making it a wildcard that many may be overlooking.

Almost a clean sweep of green today, but $MORI holds steady at yesterday’s price—we’ll take it.

$SAIKO makes a return to the top 10 after being included in Mine Labs’ announcement (featured in the headline story).

While overall volume remains low, we’re seeing at least a 2x in activity at the lower end of the chart—a great sign for the ecosystem.

Are we back? The unofficial CEO of Runes, Shin, shares his thoughts:

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