Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang said on Jan. 11 that Ethereum is moving toward a future where zero-knowledge cryptography becomes central to the network, with years of research converging with real-world progress, BlockBeats reports. While current upgrades focus on improving Layer 2 execution and Blob space, making zero-knowledge proofs a protocol-level feature is increasingly feasible. Wang said Ethereum researchers have published a native zkEVM plan that would let the network verify transactions by default using zero-knowledge proofs. The approach could significantly reduce the work required to secure Ethereum and enable scaling without compromising decentralization or reliability, while resilience, security, censorship resistance and neutrality remain core.

A Polygon team-linked address transferred 20 million POL tokens worth close to $3.5 million over a 20-minute period on Jan. 11, Arkham data show. The address deposited the tokens to Binance and a GSR Markets address during this timeframe.

Machi Big Brother Huang Licheng opened a 10x leveraged long position in ZEC on Jan. 11, entering at $378.9956 with a position size of $350,000, HyperInsight data show. The trader also holds an ETH long position worth $34 million at an entry price of $3,138.43, and a HYPE long position valued at $250,000 opened at $24.4.

On Jan. 11, Binance founder CZ reposted a tweet stating that 1 BNB could generate $71.5 in earnings in 2025, implying an estimated dividend yield of about 10% based on an assumed average BNB price for that year. The post described BNB as the strongest "golden shovel" in the crypto sector and claimed BNB would significantly outperform U.S. stock dividends and be the only token among BTC, ETH, BNB and SOL to end 2025 higher. It also asserted that Binance Alpha has increased retail user income, that the upper limit of airdrop returns has recently fallen while attracting more new users, and that currently one out of every 25 people globally is a Binance user.

ETH topped spot net inflows at $113 million over the past 24 hours on Jan. 11, followed by BTC at $53.66 million, SOL at $23.4 million, BCH at $20 million and BGB at $10.52 million, Coinglass data show as reported by BlockBeats. On the net outflow side during the same period, GMT recorded $5.2 million, POL $4.65 million, ID $4.2 million, DOGE $4 million and PIEVERSE $3.56 million.

Tornado Cash business addresses received 693,412 ETH worth approximately $2.5 billion during 2025, Bitrace data released on Jan. 11 show. The mixing protocol recorded a net capital inflow of $1.4 billion in USD terms for the year, with most incoming funds denominated in ETH, BlockBeats reports.

Social media discussions around Ethereum have fallen sharply and now sit close to depressed levels seen before ETH's 2025 market uptrend, on-chain sentiment platform Santiment reported on Jan. 11. When the crypto community appears to "give up" on Ethereum and sentiment turns highly negative, ETH has often seen abrupt price moves higher, Santiment noted. ETH hit a yearly low of $1,472 on April 9, 2025, then surged nearly 70% within about four months to move back toward its 2021 all-time high of $4,878 by Aug. 23, 2025, according to the data cited. Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan said the currently weak mood around ETH suggests it is unlikely to see much further significant downside.

Vitalik Buterin said on Jan. 11 that the crypto industry lacks robust decentralized stablecoins and outlined three unresolved issues, BlockBeats reports. He argued stablecoins should track an index beyond the U.S. dollar to reduce dollar dependence, and require oracle mechanisms resistant to control by large capital—since buyable oracles force protocols to extract high value so attack costs exceed their market cap. He added decentralized stablecoins must address yield competitiveness, as returns several percentage points below staking yields will struggle to attract capital long-term.

A smart money address (0x69b...0e378) expanded its swing-trading position to 3,100 ETH on Jan. 11, on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) reports. The address withdrew 503.01 ETH from Binance approximately 5 hours earlier, bringing total accumulation over two days to $9.543 million worth of ETH at an average price of $3,078.5. The 9.57 million USDT deposited to Binance two days prior appears to have been fully deployed into the position.