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.

Layer2 cross-chain protocol Orbiter Finance announced on the X platform that it will launch the OBT token, and the TGE will be held on January 20, 2025. OBT is the ERC-20 governance and utility token of the protocol, which will be launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base, with a total supply of 10 billion and a circulating supply of 2.8 billion (28%) at the time of TGE.

Web3 education protocol Open Campus has officially launched its Layer 3 blockchain EDU Chain on Arbitrum Orbit. Launched on January 17, the blockchain is designed to support educational applications and on-chain education driven by EDU tokens. The standout feature of EDU Chain is the Open Campus (OC) achievement system, formerly known as Verifiable Credentials. The system allows educational institutions and training centers to issue decentralized, tamper-proof qualification records to learners.

Binance Futures will launch perpetual contracts at the following times, with a maximum leverage of 25x: 2025-01-17 21:00 (GMT+8): ARCUSDT perpetual contract 2025-01-17 21:15 (GMT+8): AVAAIUSDT perpetual contract

From the US SEC filing an opening statement against Ripple to Trump considering building an "America First" cryptocurrency reserve, XRP has experienced a roller coaster ride in one day. These two "tit-for-tat" pieces of news have also sparked speculation in the industry that Ripple instigated the New York Post...

Binance will launch SOLV 1-75x U-margined perpetual contracts at 20:15 on January 17, 2025 (ET8).