GMGN market data shows that the market value of the new Meme coin TRUMP has exceeded 3 billion US dollars, and the coin price is temporarily reported at 3.25 US dollars. The current funds in the pool are about 14.2 million US dollars. The top 10 holders hold approximately 89.61% of the tokens, of which the address with the largest position holds 80% of the tokens.

Trump tweeted to promote his new Meme coin TRUMP, saying: The new official Trump Meme is here, and it's time to celebrate everything we stand for. Join the very special Trump community. Get your TRUMP now."

Trump said on his Truth Social account that he would launch a new personal meme coin, TRUMP, which users can obtain by visiting the website with the domain name gettrumpmeme. It is suspected that the account was hacked.

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World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by the Trump family, will acquire tron (TRX), according to people familiar with the matter. It is not clear how much TRX cryptocurrency World Liberty plans to add to its reserves. World Liberty raised $90 million through the sale of WLFI. The company previously invested seven figures in AAVE and LINK, tokens issued by projects that World Liberty has partnered with.

TikTok issued a statement on January 17 local time, saying that the latest statements from the White House and the Department of Justice failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurances to service providers, who are indispensable to maintaining TikTok's operations in the U.S. TikTok said that unless the Biden administration "immediately issues a clear statement" to ensure that the ban is not enforced, TikTok will be forced to shut down on January 19 local time.

Cryptocurrency firms have committed over $10 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. Cryptocurrency firms including Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, and Circle have donated to Trump’s inaugural committee since Election Day.

According to on-chain analyst Ember, a whale/institutional address sold 7,983.8 ETH for 27.29 million DAI 6 hours ago, with an average selling price of $3,419. The address bought 7,983.8 ETH at $3,286 5 days ago (January 13), and sold all of it at $3,419 today, making a profit of $1.05 million (+4%).

Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, tweeted that in the past 48 hours, multiple institutions have submitted applications for crypto-related ETFs, and the regulatory direction is changing.

Gary Gensler posted a tweet that seemed to be a farewell, and attached a video of the results of his work over the past four years. The tweet said: It is a lifetime honor to be the chairman of the SEC and work for the public. Over the past four years, the rules of the stock market and the Treasury market have been updated, and the settlement cycle has been shortened. In addition, more than $2.7 billion has been returned to damaged investors.

Digital Currency Group (DCG) will pay $38 million to settle the U.S. SEC’s allegations of loan fraud against its subsidiary Genesis Global Capital. The securities regulator accused the company of negligence and misleading investors about the health of its bankruptcy unit. DCG settled the charges without admitting or denying them.

Massachusetts Senator Peter Durant has proposed a bill to establish a "strategic bitcoin reserve" in the state. It is worth noting that Massachusetts is the first deep blue state to propose legislation related to the "strategic bitcoin reserve". At the same time, Massachusetts has also become the eighth state to propose a similar bill. Currently, eight states in the United States have proposed bills related to the "strategic bitcoin reserve", namely: Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Dakota.

The White House said TikTok should continue to be available to Americans and that implementation of TikTok laws must be carried out by the next administration.

On January 17, Beijing time, the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision on the TikTok "Sell or Ban" bill: the relevant provisions did not infringe the petitioner's First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court supported the bill and required TikTok to be separated from its parent company ByteDance Group before the 19th, otherwise it will face a nationwide ban in the United States. Earlier, it was reported that U.S. President-elect Trump was considering issuing an executive order after taking office to suspend the implementation of the TikTok ban for 60 to 90 days.

According to a post forwarded by Azuki founder Zagabond, Animecoin’s (ANIME) TGE (Token Generation Event) will be launched on January 23.

MicroStrategy Inc.’s Michael Saylor may soon have nearly as much common stock outstanding as market giants Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. to fund the company’s massive bitcoin purchases. Analysts expect MicroStrategy to easily pass a company-sponsored proposal to increase the number of authorized Class A common shares from 330 million to 10.3 billion when shareholders vote on Jan. 21. Saylor controls about 47% of the voting power. That would put MicroStrategy’s outstanding shares at a potential premium to every company in the Nasdaq 100 Index except Nvidia, Apple Inc., Alphabet and Amazon. The company’s shareholders are also expected to approve an amendment on Jan. 21 to increase the number of authorized preferred shares from 5 million to 1 billion. MicroStrategy plans to use the additional shares to fund private transactions for Class A shares, conduct at-the-market equity offerings, and settle redemptions or conversions of convertible bonds, according to proxy documents.

Galaxy Digital said in a research report on Wednesday that despite the recent rise in digital asset prices, cryptocurrency venture capital (VC) activity is still below the previous bull market level. In 2024, VC funds will allocate a total of $11.5 billion to the crypto industry, down from 2023. Galaxy pointed out that in the previous bull markets in 2017 and 2021, VC activity was highly correlated with crypto asset prices, "but in the past two years, despite the rise in cryptocurrencies, VC activity has remained sluggish."