Newsletter — January 2026
Hi there,
2026 is here! Hopefully your new-year resolutions are still holding and include finishing the year with more sats.
Here's our pipeline, a little rant, and a small market update.
What's in our pipeline
2025 has been a big year. We released v.69, unlocking symmetry and allowing buyers to publish offers well. A few bugs in the very beginning, but our excellent Dev Alex has been crunching through them. The app has got a nice polish and shiny new features.
So what's up for 2026?
We just pivoted our yearly plan to bring you Peach Web. A version of Peach in the form of a progressive web app, which will work in a browser, both on mobile and desktop.
Damn! And why is that?
Well, it would address a couple of (very important) things:
- We can escape the tyranny of Apple and Google (and avoid staying stuck on TestFlight).
- High-volume traders can get access to a large screen and an easier way to manage their trading.
What's more? We're adding more stablecoins as a payment method, and we'll increase our efforts to expand our user base to Latin America.
So here we are, starting 2026 with an ambitious plan.
Do you think anything should be in our pipeline? Let us know in our Telegram channel or at the email hello@peachbitcoin.com.
We love privacy
The December Challenge is over, the rewards have been distributed and the conclusion is that a lot of people are driven to Peach for privacy concerns. And with all the leaks (Ledger, again; the French government leaking tens of millions of people's details, just to name the biggest — with a quick search you'll see a whole lot more of these) hitting the scene, people are becoming increasingly averse to KYCing themselves into the wild. Especially if it involves Bitcoin.
Here at Peach, we love privacy. We believe it's your fundamental right. We help you stack and offload your sats without compromising your security. We know that your finances are your business, and nobody else's. That's why we've built a platform where you can trade Bitcoin directly, person-to-person, without having to hand over your personal documents to a faceless corporation.
We don't believe in surveillance. We don't believe in tracking your every move. We believe in financial self-sovereignty, and that starts with keeping your data safe and your identity your own. So go ahead, make that trade, and do it with the confidence that your privacy is being respected. Because we love privacy, and we know you do too.
Selling on Peach is KYC-free and FREE of charge. No ID, nothing of the sort. We don't see your payment details (unless in case of dispute). Creating an account only involves generating a seed and linking your reputation to it.
Plus, you can sell bitcoin at +5% above the market :)
You'll have up to CHF 1k per day, free of KYC. If you'd like to go over that limit and trust us with your data, get in touch with us. Unfortunately, this means KYC.
To a 2026 dedicated to privacy!
App improvements
A summary of the features and improvements we added:
- We made the offers data clickable on the home page.
- Added a bunch of new warnings in the app, to prevent our dear users from making mistakes and falling for scammers. See in the trade chat — especially against the new Revolut chargeback risk (just check that the other user didn't send via credit card or Apple Pay and you're safe).
- A bunch of bug fixes — hopefully you see less of those error messages!
- A click-to-copy mechanism in the chat.
- PIN gives you a few seconds to switch between apps.
- On the user profile page, you can see all the offers the user has available.
Also, we are working on the server in order to improve the speed, efficiency and resilience of our backend. Hopefully this will reflect in the app speed too!
Peach market update
Some stats from December 11th to January 11th 2026.
Below you'll find a recap of the most important stats from the previous month. Let us know if you'd like to see any chart or metric that doesn't appear here.
TL;DR
- The volume is still growing slowly: CHF 610K in the last month (+15% from November).
- Instant SEPA and Revolut are still fighting for the most liquid method. Instant SEPA is gaining terrain, even overtaking Revolut on some days.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total amount traded | 1,493,284,605 sats — 1,248,986.34 CHF |
| Avg. SELL offers / day | 98 (5,892 sell offers in 60 days) |
| Avg. PREMIUM | 6.67% — going down as the number of trades grows |
| Median time to complete a sell trade | 32 minutes |
| Number of finished trades | 4,012 |
| Average trade amount | 444,539 sats — 334 CHF |
Most used payment methods: Revolut, Instant SEPA, Wise, PayPal, TWINT.
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January 11st, 2026