The Meme Times

You think Trump only wages wars? Nope - he's also busy causing scandals in the crypto world 1. $TRUMP Memecoin Gala Dinner 2.0 Second exclusive dinner announced at Mar-a-Lago for top 297 token holders. The coin pumped 60% on the news - but it's still down 90%+ from its peak. One whale dropped $7M and is already up $2M. The playbook: promise access to the President, collect the cash, repeat. 2. The $500M Secret Deal with the UAE "Spy Sheikh" Days before inauguration, a firm tied to the UAE's national security chief quietly bought 49% of Trump's crypto company World Liberty Financial for half a billion dollars. Months later, the US approved selling the UAE hundreds of thousands of advanced Nvidia AI chips. Senator Warren called it "corruption, plain and simple." 3. The Trump Family Has Made Over $1 Billion from Crypto The Trumps pocket 75% of all WLFI token sales plus a cut of stablecoin profits. By late 2025 they banked over $1B with another $3B in unsold tokens. Meanwhile early $TRUMP investors dumped $700M within days of launch - one account created hours before the drop walked away with $109M. 4. Kalshi "Death Markets" Scandal Prediction platform Kalshi refused to pay out $54M in bets on Iran's Khamenei leaving office after he was killed in US-Israeli strikes - citing a "death carveout" in the fine print. Class action lawsuit filed. Congress is now pushing the "Death Bets Act" to ban wagers on war and assassination. Oh and Trump Jr. advises both Kalshi and Polymarket. 5. Bitcoin Reserve - One Year, Zero Purchases Trump signed the executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in March 2025. One year later: no actual purchases. Only seized BTC. Treasury lacks the legal authority to open the accounts. The US reportedly holds around 328,000 BTC worth $20B+ but can't technically call it a "reserve" yet.

💰🥳Binance filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in New York over a February article claiming the exchange dismantled an internal probe and fired staff who flagged $1.7B in crypto flows tied to Iran. 🥺 Binance says the investigation continued, accounts were offboarded, findings were reported to law enforcement, and only $24M -not $1.7B - reached wallets linked to the IRGC. The same day, WSJ published a second story: the DOJ has opened an inquiry into Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions. BNB dropped, Senator Blumenthal called Binance's response "evasive." This isn't just a dispute - it's a precedent that will show whether media can drive regulatory pressure on the crypto industry with a single headline.

BTC has just had a crazy surge