Huoxun Finance reported on January 17 that trader "Pigeon" Eugene posted on his personal channel that he has basically exited his long positions in altcoins because the market performance of the relevant investment targets has not met expectations, so he has chosen to take profits in stages. However, he is still holding long positions in core Bitcoin and has significantly increased his cash position in preparation for the next round of trading.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 17th that Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Asset Research at digital asset management firm VanEck, clarified a New York Times article on the X platform, stating that the article was a misrepresentation of a report by the New York Times. He clarified that the New York Times published an article attacking Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, claiming that VanEck CEO Jan vanEck stated he had "always kept his distance from Strategy." However, Jan vanEck was actually expressing that VanEck would not be implementing a DAT strategy for the time being, not his opinion on Strategy or its stock price, and certainly not a bearish view on Strategy. Currently, VanEck holds 284,000 shares of Strategy on behalf of clients, consistently ranking among the top 75 in Strategy's stock holdings, and has increased its holdings in recent weeks.

According to Alex Thorn, Research Director at Galaxy Digital, the postponement of the Senate Banking Committee's review of the Crypto Market Structure Bill highlights deep disagreements between Congress and industry on several key issues, particularly stablecoin yield mechanisms and DeFi-related provisions. The postponement occurred hours after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong withdrew his support for the bill. Armstrong publicly opposed the bill's wording regarding tokenized securities, DeFi restrictions, and stablecoin yields. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott subsequently announced a postponement of the hearing, but has not yet released a new timetable. With the Senate adjourning next week, the earliest possible resumption date is between January 26th and 30th. Thorn pointed out that within just 48 hours, the draft bill was released late at night, and over 100 amendments were submitted, with stakeholders continuing to discover new points of contention at the last minute, significantly increasing the difficulty of political coordination. At the market level, following the announcement of the delay, crypto assets generally declined, with Bitcoin and Ethereum falling by about 2% that day; related US stocks also came under pressure, with Coinbase falling 6.5%, Robinhood falling 7.8%, and Circle falling 9.7%. In his analysis, Thorn believes that although there is a large consensus on the "market structure" itself, a difficult-to-bridge political divide has formed around non-core but highly sensitive issues such as stablecoin yields, DeFi compliance, and granting the SEC regulatory tools in the field of tokenized securities. "The surface differences in the disagreements are not large, but the actual gap is very deep."

According to Odaily Planet Daily, OpenAI founder Sam Altman responded to privacy concerns regarding ChatGPT's advertising plan in a post on the X platform. He stated that ChatGPT is testing advertising features because many users want to use AI frequently but are unwilling to pay for it. The team hopes to explore feasible business paths through advertising. Regarding privacy concerns, ChatGPT's advertising will follow clear principles: it will never accept any paid behavior that affects the answers ChatGPT provides, and user conversations will remain invisible to advertisers.

According to a report by Coin Bureau on the X platform, Odaily Planet Daily, BlackRock withdrew a total of 12,658 BTC (worth $1.21 billion) and 9,515 ETH (worth $31.3 million) in the past three days. According to Arkham data, BlackRock currently holds 784,400 BTC (worth $74.68 billion) and 3.49 million ETH (worth $11.51 billion).