On April 10th, Topnod, the digital collectibles issuance platform under Ant Group, launched the first variable digital collectible "NBA Playoffs Court Blind Box".
On Jan. 5, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban U.S. transactions with eight widely-used Chinese software applications, including Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s QQ and WeChat Pay.
Alibaba Group Holding’s U.S.-listed shares plunged 13.3% to $34.18 on Dec. 24, after news broke that the e-commerce giant will be investigated by anti-trust regulators.