Top 220 holders by US President Donald Trump’s Memecoin met yesterday at the President’s Golf Course in Virginia for an exclusive dinner and purported meet-and-greeting.
Dadalo spent A huge sum of $ 148 million for an “ultra-exclusive VIP reception to the President,” whose crypto industry advocates and critics have seen as much as a potential opportunity to discuss crypto policy with the President.
The crowd contains a number of foreign executive executives and influencers who otherwise would not have access to the US president, raising questions around corruption and foreign influence.
The concerns were further enhanced when the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to release a list of attendees, saying that the event was a private romance outside the roles of the Trump president.
However, some attendees spoke to the press or brought to social media to talk about dinner. Here are just a few:
Justin Sun.
Tron founder Justin Sun is Trump’s largest tokenholder in space, which has been reported enough to earn him a special watch, presented at a special ceremony.
Having a sun in the event is particularly controversial. Last year, he faced a Demanda The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought to the alleged “orchestation of unregistered offers and sale, trading manipulation, and unlawfully undergoing crypto asset security.”
The SEC requested a reprieve in late February, in just one month from Trump’s inauguration and the subsequent 180 to the approach of federal agencies to crypto regulating.
Outside of Crypto dinner, day Na -Post On May 21, he spent a week in Washington, DC to have “meaningful conversation that will help shape the next chapter of the blockchain future” in the United States.
Eat warwick
Eat Warwick, founder of crypto exchange operator Ifinex, said The New York Times on May 12 he attended the event after the Trump’s enough to break the top 25 leaderboard investors on the leaderboard.
Warwick said he wanted to have a shot at the president’s meeting, or someone with his team, to talk to Crypto -particularly decentralized finance (DEFI), which is getting less attention to the current incrop of crypto bills that moves -transfer to the US Congress.
“If you assume Trump and 10 people inside the Trump team are there, you already have one of 15 shots of having a conversation with one of them,” he said.
Vincent Liu
Vincent Liu, chief investment officer of Crypto Trading, VC and market-making firm Kronos Research, attended the event, posted menu photos and Trump’s short speech.
Liu wrote, “Just by handling the Trump token, individuals have an unprecedented opportunity to meet the President of the United States.”
He’s ahead said to the cointelegraph“The decision to get the (Trump) token is not political. It is based on recognition of early momentum, cultural relationship and potential catalysts in the market.”
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His firm Nakasa said That’s the “Alpha”-meaning, exclusive or difficult information that can move markets-are “in the menu.”
Lamar Odom
The attendance was also a twice champion of National Basketball Association Lamar Odom. While many other crypto entrepreneurs in the audience focus on the policy, Odom used the news of his attendance to publish his own Memecoin, Odom.
Odom launched his memecoin less than a week before dinner on May 14. Anti-addiction-themed Memecoin (Odom had a public battle with substance addiction) was issued in Solana Blockchain.
The coin itself has a 20% “Trump Dinner Program” staking scheme, where Trump holders can accept their coins on Odom’s project, which enables him to attend dinner event, and receive Airdrops of Odom. Odom himself will hold 5% of all Odom.
Sangrok oh
CEO of Seoul- and Tokyo based on cryptocurrency management firm Hyperithm, Sangrok oh Ay Trump’s 13th largest holder with a purse containing more than $ 3 million worth of token, according to The Straits Times.
Oh said to the New York Times that he had come With a batch of red “redo the crypto again” hats to be given to dinner and expect to talk to the president directly. “It’s kind of a fund-raiser (…) and he’ll always be good to his sponsors.”
OH has been critical of the slow regulation of crypto in countries where his company operates.
Anonymous to attend
In addition to crypto execs and sports stars, the event was also mentioned by some unidentified or pseudonymous entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to attend.
Among these Ay “Ice,” co-founder of Singaporean Crypto Company Memecore. Chief Officer of Company’s Business Development, Cherry HSU, said Sherwood’s news that Trump’s rise “represents the power of memes to influence the culture, perception, and movements-principles aligned with the Memecore’s vision of a decentralized, encouraged in the community.”
The “Ogle,” a cybersecurity adviser in Trump’s own World Liberty Financial Cryprise, as well as the pseudonymous co-founder of the blockchain ecosystem glue, also attended. Ogle said they would come out in curiosity, more than anything else, and Trump was not personally endorsed. “I hope it’s going to be fun – and hope they’ll serve McDonald’s.”
Another unidentified attendant is the “Cryptoo Bear,” a crypto businessman and occasional news reporter that is mainly posted in the afternoon. The Cryptoo Bear did not make political statements about the event, mainly posting about swags and food. They said they were promised a photo op with the President, but it did not appear.
Dinner “Visitors” across the picket line
Outside the Country Club, US senators and former staff attended the event as part of a protest.
Bloomberg reported The protesters shouted “embarrassing!” And “I hope you choke at your dinner!” To the attendees. Event critics are widely considered that it is a dazzling example of corruption in Washington and within the Trump administration.
Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, joined the protest. “The spirit of the Constitution is that no one is elected to sell the influence on anyone,” he Says“Because it will be the government of and for the people.”
Ken Papaj, a former Treasury Department officer, said, “Whenever he has a transaction, he gets a transaction fee? Just can’t give him what he does.”
Dinner arrives at an important time for the US crypto industry in the US, where the industry is pushing for Congress to pass friendly regulations. Trump’s relationship can complicated things, however, as the lawmakers have Introduced Anti-Corruption Bills that target cryptos and politicians.
Democratic Senates are also The Purpose of the Stablecoin-Focus Genius Actintroducing a murder of amendments that respond to Trump’s crypto businesses.
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