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."

SlowMist Technology Chief Information Security Officer 23pds said on the X platform that a third-party service used by a leading trading platform had recently been monitored to have leaked data, involving a large amount of employee information, including sensitive data such as email addresses and passwords. The relevant situation has been synchronized with the relevant parties for processing.

Crypto market data provider SoSoValue plans to airdrop a total of 49 million SOSO tokens in the first quarter. SoSoValue co-founder Jessie Lo said in an interview that the allocation accounts for 4.9% of the total supply of 1 billion tokens. Lo said that the majority of the airdrop came from the platform's 30% ecosystem allocation.

The Royal Government of Bhutan once again transferred 377.78 BTC to 2 different wallets, worth $38.57 million.

Chang'an Jian of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission wrote on his official WeChat account that the 2025 Central Political and Legal Work Conference pointed out that the Ministry of Justice should take the initiative to study and put forward legislative suggestions, and should study new issues such as unmanned driving, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, virtual currency, and data ownership.