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BlockBeats news, January 17, Bitwise and VettaFi jointly released a survey report indicating that in 2025, financial advisors' allocation to cryptocurrency assets reached an all-time high, with about 32% of advisors allocating cryptocurrency assets in client accounts, a significant increase from 22% in 2024.

The report also shows that 56% of advisors hold cryptocurrency assets in their personal investment portfolios, marking the highest level since the survey began in 2018. Among client portfolios that allocate cryptocurrency assets, 64% have allocations exceeding 2%, up from 51% in 2024. 42% of advisors reported being able to purchase cryptocurrency assets in client accounts, a significant increase from 35% in 2024 and 19% in 2023. Stablecoins and tokenization are the most关注ed areas by advisors (30%), followed by digital gold (22%) and cryptocurrency-related AI investments (19%).

BlockBeats news, on January 17, according to CME Federal Reserve observation data, as Trump hinted at nominating someone other than National Economic Council Director Hassett to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Powell, traders reduced expectations for two interest rate cuts in the U.S. in 2026.

By the end of 2026, the probability of no interest rate cuts throughout the year is 11.8%, the probability of a cumulative interest rate cut of 25 basis points for the year is 30.3%, and the probability of a cumulative interest rate cut of 50 basis points is 32.1%.

Today, when discussing National Economic Council Director Hassett, Trump stated, "I want him to continue in his original position, we will wait and see." This statement suggests that there may be other candidates for Federal Reserve Chairman in Trump's mind.

BlockBeats message, January 17: The U.S. Supreme Court may issue at least one ruling on January 20 (next Tuesday). (Jin Shi)

BlockBeats message, January 17, today Trump stated regarding White House National Economic Council Director Hassett, "I want him to continue in his original position, we will see." This statement suggests that Trump may have another candidate in mind for the Federal Reserve Chairman, and market expectations for the Fed Chair candidate have shifted from a split between Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh to Warsh taking the lead alone. Notably, prior to Trump's remarks today, Hassett himself also commented, "Warsh and Rieder would also be great Federal Reserve Chairs." Perhaps Hassett has long understood Trump's final choice.

BlockBeats message, January 17, Federal Reserve Governor Bowman stated (Economic and Monetary Policy Outlook), mentioning: In light of current risks, the Federal Reserve should not signal a pause in the rate cut cycle, and the Federal Reserve should be ready to cut rates again at any time.

BlockBeats message, January 16, Coinbase Global announced that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2025 after the close of the U.S. stock market on February 12, 2026 (Thursday), and will hold a live webcast at 2:30 PM Pacific Time on the same day.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to Downdetector, the social media platform 'X' experienced issues. Features such as search, timeline, and DM are unstable, with some search results showing 'no posts', timeline content unable to load properly, and community functions also experiencing outages. Some users have reported that the outages over the past two days have not fully recovered, with varying degrees of impact across different regions and accounts.

BlockBeats news, January 16, Yi Lihua stated that for ordinary investors, the best strategy is to invest and wait. Most traders ultimately incur losses and find it difficult to outperform institutions and platforms, while also needing to avoid becoming short sellers themselves. In the history of the US stock market, there have been two representatives of long and short positions: one is the long position held by Buffett, who primarily invests for the long term, having only a few major short positions in decades, waiting for better buying opportunities. The other is the short position held by Bill Gates, who once owned over 40% of Microsoft shares, and subsequently reduced his holdings to manage assets, even shorting Tesla at a loss of billions along the way, successfully bringing his trillion-dollar net worth down to hundreds of billions.

BlockBeats news, January 16, Trump: may impose tariffs on countries that hold different opinions on the Greenland issue.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to AI monitoring, the "BTC OG insider whale" has increased its ETH long position again after a month, adding 100,000 coins in the last 10 minutes, bringing the ETH long position to 736 million USD, with an unrealized profit of approximately 32.5 million USD.

BlockBeats news, January 16, Trump stated regarding White House National Economic Council Director Hassett that Federal Reserve officials don't speak much, Hassett is very articulate, he performed well on television, and Trump wants him to continue in his original position. We will keep an eye on it.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to Arkham monitoring, about half an hour ago, Grayscale transferred 148.372 BTC to a Coinbase Prime address, worth 14.15 million USD.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to HTX market information, Bitcoin fell below $95,000, with a 24-hour decline of 1.42%.

BlockBeats news, January 16, Binance postpones the launch of AIA USDT perpetual contract, time to be announced later.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to Bitget market data, U.S. stocks opened higher, with all three major indices rising collectively. The Dow Jones increased by 0.11%, the Nasdaq rose by 0.47%, and the S&P 500 index climbed by 0.22%. U.S. cryptocurrency concept stocks showed mixed performance, among which:

· MSTR dropped 0.4%;

· COIN dropped 0.2%;

· SBET increased by 1.05%;

· BMNR dropped 2.7%;

· CRCL dropped 0.6%;

· RIOT surged 7.7%, signing a data center lease agreement with AMD today.

BlockBeats message, January 16, Zora token ZORA has been launched on the Solana blockchain.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to a press release, the US-listed Bitcoin mining company Canaan Inc. disclosed that it received a written notice from Nasdaq on January 14, stating that the company violated Nasdaq listing rule 5550(a)(2), as its American Depositary Shares (ADS) have closed at a price below $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive trading days. According to the notice, Canaan Inc. must raise the closing price of its American Depositary Shares (ADS) to above $1.00 and maintain it for 10 consecutive trading days before July 13, 2026, to avoid delisting.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, according to Bitget market data, U.S. mining company Riot Platforms (RIOT) rose 7.7% in pre-market trading, and the company signed a data center lease agreement with AMD.

In addition, Riot Platforms announced that it has sold 1,080 bitcoins and will use the proceeds of approximately $96 million to purchase the Rockdale site for the development of a data center project.

Riot Platforms stated that their agreement with AMD (AMD.O) includes the deployment of the first 25 megawatts of capacity. The deal includes potential expansion to up to 200 megawatts. The transaction is expected to bring in $311 million in contract revenue. If the contract is fully extended, the contract revenue is expected to increase to around $1 billion.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, the U.S. stock-listed Bitcoin custody company Strive completed a merger with another Bitcoin custody company, Semler Scientific. The BTC holdings increased to 12,798 coins, valued at approximately $1.22 billion, making it the 11th largest corporate holder.

BlockBeats news, on January 16, the Base network Perp DEX protocol RollX launched the ROLL token and opened the first phase of the genesis airdrop distribution. Airdrop claims opened on January 16 at 19:00, with the deadline for the first batch of unlocked claims set for January 26.

The total supply of the genesis airdrop token is 180 million, and eligible addresses include Trade & LP points holders (S1, S2, and S3 seasons) as well as contributors participating in activities such as Binance wallet, Bitlayer, Galxe, etc. The genesis airdrop and most activity rewards are unlocked at TGE with 25%, and the remaining 75% will be released linearly monthly over the next 6 months; rewards from Galxe activities and RollOnchain lightning activities are unlocked 100% at TGE.