For weeks, wealthy individuals have been scooping up the Trump family’s cryptocurrency, hoping to accumulate enough to compete in any of the 220 seats at dinner with President Donald Trump himself. In the words of Trump’s own website, “The competition is fierce. Look at it from the original $Trump – or bystanders.” The leaderboard is now the final one, with winners from around the world trying to descend to Washington, D.C., to rub their shoulders with the world’s most powerful man. So who’s going?
The leaderboard is public, but not each winner’s identity (difficult due to the pseudonym blockchain address). However, analysis by luck Of these top 25 owners, 18 have revealed that they are interacting with Binance, a foreign crypto exchange that excludes Americans.
Meanwhile, some of the winners (their top 25 are entitled to attend “ultra-exclusive private VIP receptions,” but have been publicly identified or identified by crypto analytics companies. Here are three guests who are scheduled to go to the “gala dinner,” which critics have denounced as an unprecedented example of corruption.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Chinese crypto billionaire Justin San
According to Monday’s prices, Trump’s memo coins have over $18 million, and the top spot on the leaderboard will be identified simply by the name “Sun.” Crypto Analytics Firms Arkham Intelligence and Nansen say the wallet is linked to HTX, a Crypto Exchange, by billionaire Justin Sun. Serve As a global advisor.
Which sun, no one I said Forbes In March, his net worth exceeded $40 billion, and HTX did not respond to requests for comment.
The billionaire is a controversial figure in the crypto industry. Born in China, Sun founded Tron in 2024, a blockchain that hosted 58% of all illegal activities in crypto. Report From the Crypto Analytics company TRM Lab. (However, Tron’s illegal crypto volume has dropped by $6 billion from the previous year.)
The Sun has found himself in the midst of many cryptographic failures. It is said that he pushed a crypto trade outlet recently. Coindesk To spike a story about how the crypto billionaire bought and ate a $6.2 million banana.
Memecore, a Singapore crypto company
According to a public post from The Firm and Nansen, Trump’s Memecoin, Singapore’s Crypto Startup Memecore, has around $17.5 million.
Founded in January 2024, the company is building memokine blockchains or cryptocurrencies created as jokes with no inherent value, said Ting HSU, Memecore’s chief business development officer. luck. Trump herself is one of the most “symbolic” memes, she said.
HSU didn’t share exactly how the company funds Trump’s crypto investments, but she said that a portion of the money came from the company’s “Internal Treasury” as well as one of the anonymous co-founders of the startup that she refused to share her identity. According to HSU, the anonymous founder will be attending a dinner with Trump on May 22nd.
The Memecore executives didn’t know who else would be attending dinner. I also wanted to see the guest list. “why [do] Do you guys want to participate in this? ” she asked.
Australian Investor Kane Warwick
He’s not one of the top 25 Trump Memo coin holders, but Australian crypto investor Kane Warwick won the top 220. New York Times. (Walick did not respond to requests for comment immediately luck. )
Warwick, founder of Crypto Company Infinex, was playing basketball with his kids on a weekend afternoon in January when he saw the 47th president clearly launching his own memo coin on social media. account.
He didn’t know if cryptocurrency was legally Trump’s, and worked enthusiastically to make sure it was authentic. He eventually went back to investing the money and playing with his kids.
But when he was taking the kids to the beach, he doubled his bet. “The caregivers had one chance yesterday,” he said. I wrote itreflecting the release of Trump’s cryptocurrency in a day.
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com.
