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Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor

Truth Social, the social media platform majority-owned by US President Donald Trump and his family, is launching a cryptocurrency-based gambling service that will compete directly with the wildly popular Polymarket.The new service,...

‘War on Crypto Is Over’: Donald Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ

US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions....

Melania Trump Used as ‘Window-Dressing’ in Elaborate Memecoin Fraud, Legal Filing Claims

A cryptocurrency promoted in January by US first lady Melania Trump was part of a sophisticated fraud that “leveraged celebrity association and ‘borrowed fame’ to sell legitimacy to unsuspecting investors,” a new...

Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market

Dogecoin, a meme-based cryptocurrency created on a lark more than a decade ago, is now available to investors through the US public market.On September 18, investment fund management firms REX Financial and...

A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House

When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate that the tiny proto-nation—which had no permanent residents, barely any buildings, and...

Kanye West Said Memecoins ‘Prey On Fans.’ Then He Apparently Launched One

Kanye West, the hip-hop artist who goes by Ye, appears to have launched his own cryptocurrency, YZY, sparking a riot of trading activity.In February, West rejected the idea that he might launch...

Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency business cofounded by the Trump family, is creating a way for investors to speculate on the price of its self-branded coin, WLFI, through the US stock market.A...

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

US President Donald Trump has ordered regulators to investigate the alleged refusal among US banks to supply accounts to customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs.In an executive order...

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