New Listings · Top Gainers · Spot & Futures Trading Data Overview Statistics Period: January 27 – February 2, 2026 Release Schedule: Every Thursday Data Source: MEXC Platform, CoinGecko Last week,New Listings · Top Gainers · Spot & Futures Trading Data Overview Statistics Period: January 27 – February 2, 2026 Release Schedule: Every Thursday Data Source: MEXC Platform, CoinGecko Last week,
MEXC Operations Weekly Report (January 27 – February 2, 2026)
New Listings · Top Gainers · Spot & Futures Trading Data Overview
Statistics Period: January 27 – February 2, 2026
Release Schedule: Every Thursday
Data Source: MEXC Platform, CoinGecko
Last week, the crypto market experienced significant volatility with an overall downward trend. MEXC listed 28 new tokens, with the ARCIEL project achieving an exceptional gain exceeding 6,700%. Both spot and futures trading volumes remained robust, supported by multiple concurrent trading activities. Recently, gold and silver prices underwent sharp corrections, with gold retracing approximately 15%-18% from its peak and silver declining even more dramatically by 30%-39%. Given such intense market volatility, please prioritize risk management to avoid losses exceeding your investment tolerance. MEXC not only offers gold and silver perpetual futures with bidirectional trading capabilities and capital efficiency advantages but also provides comprehensive trading guides, including "Complete Tutorial on Setting Take Profit and Stop Loss for Futures Trading: Essential Risk Control and Practical Techniques for Beginners" and "How to Use MEXC's Different Order Modes for Futures Trading? Complete Positions Quickly at Low Cost".
MEXC supports multiple gold and silver futures trading pairs including GOLD(XAUT)USDT, SILVER(XAG)USDT, GOLD(PAXG)USDT, and GOLD(XAUT)USDC, offering the following advantages:
- World-class liquidity
- 24/7 continuous trading
- Leverage up to 500x
Additionally, MEXC has recently launched Copper, Natural Gas, Oil, Nasdaq Index, Dow Jones Index, and S&P 500 Index USDT-Margined Perpetual Futures, expanding your trading opportunities!
I. Market and Platform Overview
Last week, the cryptocurrency market exhibited a volatile downtrend with the sentiment index entering the "extreme fear" zone. This sentiment typically reflects widespread investor pessimism and may trigger panic selling; however, historical patterns suggest this often indicates potential asset undervaluation and possible cyclical bottoms, presenting strategic positioning opportunities.
The precious metals market in early 2026 witnessed an unprecedented "roller coaster" movement. Driven by multiple macro factors, gold and silver prices surged rapidly at the year's start, repeatedly breaking historical records. Gold peaked at $5,400 per ounce while silver remarkably exceeded $118 per ounce. Within one month, gold gained approximately 25% while silver soared by approximately 65%.
However, the precious metals market recently experienced severe corrections, with gold declining approximately 15%-18% from its peak and silver retracing even more dramatically by 30%-39%. This extreme volatility has completely shattered the traditional perception of precious metals as "stable" safe-haven assets, with their profit potential and volatility now rivaling many mainstream crypto assets.
In this environment, gold and silver perpetual futures supporting bidirectional trading (enabling positions regardless of price direction) and offering high capital efficiency are increasingly becoming the preferred choice for sophisticated traders. These instruments not only enable flexible responses to bidirectional market movements but also amplify returns through leverage mechanisms (while simultaneously amplifying risks), effectively capturing opportunities amid intense precious metals volatility.
Notably, MEXC offers up to 500x leverage for gold perpetual futures, providing a powerful tool for traders with higher risk tolerance seeking maximum capital efficiency. The platform ensures, through streamlined onboarding, 24/7 uninterrupted trading, zero fee advantages, and deep market liquidity that investors can rapidly respond to geopolitical and macroeconomic shifts, effectively capturing profit opportunities regardless of market direction.
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Key Highlights:
- New Listings: 28
- Top Weekly Gainer: ARCIEL (Peak gain of 6,700%)
- Spot Trading Volume: 30.7 billion USDT
- Futures Trading Volume: 78.09 billion USDT
- Platform Events: 233
*Data Source: MEXC, CoinGecko
II. Last Week's New Listings Overview
Last week, MEXC listed 28 new tokens spanning multiple trending sectors, including AI, DeFi, Meme, GameFi, and Layer2.
| Token | Trading Pair | Sector | Listing Date |
| ARCIEL | 01/30 | ||
| CLAWNCH | 01/31 | ||
| PPTAI | AI | 01/31 | |
| BIRB | 01/28 | ||
| MOLT | Meme | 01/30 |
Featured New Tokens:
- ARCIEL: Arciel is a blockchain project focused on building Web3 cross-chain interoperability infrastructure. Its core mission is connecting diverse blockchain networks to enable seamless cross-chain asset and data transfers. Utilizing multi-chain bridging technology supporting over 15 chains, the project is distinguished by exceptional transaction processing speeds (exceeding 5,000 TPS) and sub-3-second finality, positioning itself as the high-performance foundation for future decentralized applications (dApps).
- PPTAI: Puppets AI is an engaging digital companion merging a powerful Web3 intelligent core with everyday productivity. Through a unified conversational interface, it manages wallets, automates DeFi protocol execution, and handles Web2 tasks, simplifying and gamifying decentralized networks. Benefiting from the "AI+blockchain" narrative, PPTAI has attracted substantial market attention post-listing.
- BIRB: Moonbirds represents the first "phygital" (physical-digital) hybrid network asset combining viral crypto culture with a profitable real-world collectibles business. Unlike traditional speculation-driven projects, $BIRB is powered by Orange Cap Games, a leading toy and game manufacturer generating over $8 million in annual revenue. Each Moonbird is a procedurally generated artwork featuring unique attributes and aesthetics. The project emphasizes both digital art collection and community value, with holders enjoying exclusive benefits, events, and airdrop privileges. Through innovative design and robust community support, Moonbirds has established itself as a significant NFT ecosystem project.
III. Top 5 Weekly Gainers
Last week, several tokens demonstrated exceptional performance. Below are the Top 5 Weekly Gainers:
| Rank | Token | Peak Gain |
| 1 | +4,262.20% | |
| 2 | +444.77% | |
| 3 | +233.60% | |
| 4 | +135.65% | |
| 5 | +91.92% |
Note: Gains are primarily influenced by market sentiment, trending sectors, new listings, promotional incentives, and related factors.
IV. Platform Trading Performance
1️⃣ Spot Trading Metrics
- Weekly spot trading volume: 30.75 billion USDT
- Top 3 spot trading pairs by volume:
Note: Spot trading activity remained stable despite new listings and market volatility.
*Data Source: CoinGecko
2️⃣ Futures Trading Metrics
- Weekly futures trading volume: 78.09 billion USDT
- Top 5 futures trading pairs by volume:
Note: Heightened market volatility sustained elevated futures participation levels.
*Data Source: CoinGecko
V. Platform Events Recap
Last week, MEXC hosted 233 platform events encompassing spot, futures, and new token trading.
Featured events:
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- Duration: January 28 – February 11
- Highlights:
- Combined deposit and trading tasks; 3 tickets per lucky draw chance
- Various prize pools, with a 40,000 USDT trading leaderboard
- New user special: Deposit 100 USDT and trade 1 USDT for a lucky draw chance
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- Rewards:
- Wheel prizes: Up to 30 USDT per winner
- Leaderboard rewards: 133 USDT average per participant
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- Duration: January 30 – February 15
- Highlights:
- Deposit to receive 200 USDT position airdrop / 1 lucky draw chance (spin for $50,000)
- Trade to share $1,000,000 prize pool
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- Rewards: 200 USDT
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VI. Next Week's Preview
- Upcoming: 6 new projects spanning PayFi, Meme, DeFi, and other sectors. Follow New Listings for the latest updates.
- Ongoing promotions: Spot Trading Fee Discount Program, Kickstarter, Launchpad, Launchpool
- RIVER & PENGUIN Pulse: 200,000 USDT in rewards awaits!
- MEXC Flip Fest continues—participate to share 5 million USDT
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- Stay updated on market opportunities through MEXC official channels
Join the MEXC Community: X (Twitter) | Telegram | Discord
VII. Conclusion
MEXC remains committed to delivering extensive new token selections, robust trading depth, and diverse promotional incentives.
Follow MEXC Learn for timely platform updates and market insights.
👉 Start Trading on MEXC now to capture market opportunities
VIII. Recommended Reading
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