Aaaaand, Imagine all the crypto companies that donated money to the supreme pedo war leader.
As a reminder, that would include, among others, the following by name:
🔺 Ripple: about $4,889,345 in XRP
🔺 Robinhood: about $2,000,000
🔺 Coinbase: about $1,000,000
🔺 Kraken: about $1,000,000
🔺 Crypto com: about $1,000,000
🔺 Circle: about $1,000,000
🔺 Solana Labs: about $1,000,000
🔺 Galaxy Digital: about $1,000,000
🔺 Ondo Finance: about $1,000,000
🔺 Paradigm: about $1,000,000
🔺 Cantor Fitzgerald: about $1,047,000
🔺 Fred Ehrsam III: about $1,000,000
🔺 Charles Cascarilla: about $988,426
🔺 Input Output Global, Cardano: about $250,000
🔺 PayPal: about $250,000
🔺 Kyle Samani: about $250,000
🔺 Hayden Adams: about $245,728
🔺 Cypherium Blockchain: about $125,000
🔺 Yuga Labs: about $100,000
🔺 Consensys: about $100,000
🔺 MoonPay: reported as a donor, amount not publicly disclosed in the source reviewed
Broader pro Trump crypto donors outside the inauguration list include:
🔺 Cameron Winklevoss: about $1,000,000 in Bitcoin in 2024
🔺 Tyler Winklevoss: about $1,000,000 in Bitcoin in 2024
🔺 Jesse Powell: about $1,000,000 to Trump’s campaign in 2024
And separately:
🔺 Foris DAX Inc., the operator behind Crypto com: about $20,000,000 to the Trump aligned MAGA Inc. super PAC
This is what parts of the crypto industry chose to become.
An industry that sold itself as anti establishment, decentralized, neutral, and built for the people has, in many of its most powerful corners, done what every legacy power structure eventually does: move toward political access, influence, and protection.
That is the real story here.