Hassan Maishera
Privacy coin DASH has received some good news this week after securing two new exchange listings. The significance of this extends much further than the DASH community, however, for it’s symbolic of something far greater: the gradual softening of the industry’s stance towards privacy coins.
On November 25, OKX exchange announced that it was relisting DASH, pairing it against USDT. On the same day, Ju.com followed suit, making a similar announcement. While the brace of bullish events for DASH doesn’t mean that every privacy coin out there is poised to be relisted, it’s progress at least, and attests to the work DASH has done since regulators tightened the screws a few years back, prompting exchanges to delist several privacy coins.
Making Privacy Great Again
The OKX and Ju.com exchange listings demonstrate how much the crypto landscape can transform in half a decade, including regulatory bodies undergoing a volte face when it comes to privacy coins – especially now that institutions and everyday users alike are actively seeking better onchain confidentiality.
It should be noted that DASH was never entirely absent from the market over the last five years: numerous CEXs have continued to provide support for the asset, including tier-1 exchanges. However, it's undeniable that acquiring the privacy and payments-focused token became more challenging due to the number of exchanges that removed privacy coins around 2019, fearing punitive regulatory action.
Fast forward to late 2025, and onchain privacy is experiencing a major revival. This is evident simply by looking at the charts for the top privacy coins, including DASH, which have emerged from slumber to perform explosive rallies. But the real explosion has been in terms of innovation, because away from the charts, there’s some extremely cool things getting built at the protocol level, allowing privacy to be built into the dapps and services we use onchain, from payments to trading.
DASH Did It First
Crucially, DASH was a pioneer in this space, championing onchain privacy long before it became a hot trend – and now it's returning to prove its enduring relevance in a less adversarial regulatory climate. It certainly helps that DASH has broadened its utility beyond being just a privacy coin: it’s now very much marketed as a payments token with privacy features rather than the other way around.
Today, DASH is focused on becoming the payments solution for retail users via such applications as DashPay, while it’s also broadened its remit to target institutions too. It’s quite a turnaround given the years that privacy coins spent in the doldrums while regulators, under the previous anti-crypto U.S. administration, made life hard for everyone from exchanges to token issuers.
The return of DASH to leading exchanges – including some of those that had formerly delisted it – shows that slow and steady wins the race. Or rather, that trends come and go, but if you focus on creating something that people actually want, eventually the rest of the world will come around to it. 2025 has been a good year for privacy coins. 2026 is shaping up to be a great one as they’re integrated into the applications and networks we use every day.
