Coin Center's Executive Director stated that the Trump administration failed to fulfill its promises, leading to legal risks for developers of cryptocurrency privacy software. Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against multiple developers, exacerbating compliance uncertainty in the industry.

Ripple and its co-founder Chris Larsen each donated $5 million to Golden State Promise, opposing California's 2026 billionaire tax proposal, which requires billionaires to pay a one-time wealth tax and has prompted multiple billionaires to leave California.

On March 16, trading platform Ventuals experienced a bank run on HYPE withdrawals, causing vHYPE to briefly plunge to $9 before rebounding to $31. The current price stands at $37.5, still trading at an 18% discount. The CEO stated that withdrawals will be suspended to prevent disruption, and the team is working with private LPs to increase HYPE holdings. Users can exchange vHYPE through secondary liquidity pools at a 0.85:1 ratio, with up to 15% discounts available for instant liquidity.

As the South African Reserve Bank Governor issued a strong warning about the vulnerabilities of digital assets, the risks associated with stablecoins have rapidly risen to become a central concern for the global financial system. Regulators are beginning to reassess whether these "quasi-currencies," which rely on market confidence and reserve assets for support, can truly maintain their pegged commitments during extreme market conditions. This shift not only impacts cryptocurrency market participants but also touches on key areas such as cross-border payments, fund clearing, and financial stability. In recent years, the use of stablecoins in payment settlements, trading hedges, and international transfers has continued to expand, but their structural flaws have gradually been exposed. Central banks have pointed out that some issuers lack high liquidity reserves yet promise one-to-one redemption. If market confidence wavers, a concentrated sell-off could quickly trigger liquidity shortages and cause chain reactions in related financial markets. This scenario is highly reminiscent of historical financial panics and is regarded as a potential systemic risk.

Odaily Planet Daily News: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated, "OpenAI invited us to invest up to 100 billion dollars. Our investment in OpenAI has never been a promise; we will invest step by step."(Jin10)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially announced that the joint event with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been rescheduled to January 29th (Thursday) from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM at the CFTC headquarters. The event will discuss coordination between the two agencies and their efforts to fulfill Trump's promise to make the United States the world cryptocurrency capital.

BlockBeats News, January 23 — U.S. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins announced that he will attend a joint public event with CFTC Chairman Mike Selig next week to discuss regulatory coordination between the two major agencies in the crypto space. Atkins stated that both parties will work together to advance the implementation of President Trump’s promise to make the United States a global crypto hub. The event will be held at the CFTC headquarters and will be open to the public with a live online broadcast.

"Fortune" analyst Omid Malekan believes that the NYSE's tokenization plan is merely a hollow promise, emphasizing that 24/7 trading and instant settlement are not unique to blockchain, as existing centralized systems can also achieve these. He questions the lack of details and regulatory approval, pointing out that the advantages of public blockchains are fundamentally at odds with the NYSE's structure that restricts participant involvement.

In early 2026, Shiba Inu officially launched the SOU NFT framework to track and account for user losses caused by previous vulnerability incidents. This mechanism transforms the vague "post-event compensation promise" into verifiable and auditable on-chain debt records, enabling the recovery process to have clear quantitative standards for the first time. After the Shibarium Plasma Bridge vulnerability in 2025, Shiba Inu chose to mint SOU NFTs on the Ethereum network to mark the confirmed damaged amounts. Each NFT corresponds to a specific address and its entitled principal amount, serving as an on-chain accounting voucher rather than an incentive or profit asset. Users can verify claim data independently without relying on any centralized channels, significantly reducing information asymmetry.

U.S. Senator Warren Davidson issued a warning that the GENIUS Act could deprive individuals of financial freedom and privacy, leading to increased surveillance of the financial system. He criticized the bill for promoting the implementation of central bank digital currencies and called for a return to Bitcoin's permissionless payment promise. Another senator, Marjorie Taylor Greene, expressed support for and opposition to the bill.