UFC fighters at the "UFC Freedom 250" event will receive up to $250,000 in bonuses paid in USD1, a stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, a crypto company linked to the Trump family. The announcement has drawn criticism over potential conflicts of interest.
Trump family crypto ventures generated approx. $2.3B pretax income between Nov 2024-Apr 2026, outpacing major firms like Coinbase and BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF. This was achieved via token sales and equity stakes, with retail investors absorbing significant losses.
Trump's executive order aims to tighten fraud screening and limit credit for undocumented immigrants, drawing parallels to alleged "Operation Chokepoint 2.0" under Biden and raising concerns about pushing individuals into unregulated financial systems or organized crime.
NYT investigation reveals CFTC officials who raised concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Gemini were suspended and pushed out. Former acting chair Caroline Pham and her counsel allegedly aided these firms, which have ties to the Trump family.
President Donald Trump announced he will not attend his son Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding to Bettina Anderson this weekend in the Bahamas, citing government business and his love for the USA as reasons for staying in Washington D.C.
The US government will invest $2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum computing companies, including IBM and GlobalFoundries. The move aims to boost domestic innovation and create jobs, though some deals are still pending and Intel faces a lawsuit over a similar government equity stake.
The US government is investing $2 billion in nine quantum computing companies, including those linked to the Trump family and a Pentagon official. IBM, D-Wave Quantum, Atom Computing, and PsiQuantum are among the beneficiaries, with the aim of boosting American innovation and job creation.
The U.S. Department of Justice has granted immunity from tax audits to Donald Trump and his family as part of a settlement, also allocating $1.8 billion for victims of alleged government weaponization.
The DOJ has granted Donald Trump, his family, and businesses immunity from ongoing tax audits. This follows Trump's settlement of a $10bn lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax information. Critics call the move 'corruption' and 'unconstitutional'.
The CLARITY Act is finally moving toward a long-awaited Senate Banking Committee markup next week, but its path is being complicated by a fight over whether Congress should impose new ethics restrictions on federal officials and elected leaders involved with the crypto industry. On May 7, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the draft text […] The post Next week’s CLARITY Act markup could fall apart over Trump family crypto ethics fight appeared first on CryptoSlate.
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by US President Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit against Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, in the latest escalation of a dispute between the project and one of its most prominent backers. World Liberty posted a copy of its lawsuit on X in which it accused Sun of launching a “public smear campaign” including claims that it said were false. The crypto project – one of several...
The defamation suit comes days after Justin Sun filed his own lawsuit against the Trump family’s crypto firm, claiming rampant misconduct.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis says he will vote against the Senate's crypto market structure bill unless it includes ethics provisions limiting how White House officials can use cryptocurrency. Tillis, a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee who is retiring next year, told Politico that he will go from negotiating the bill to opposing it if ethics language is not included. Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego emphasized that no final bill can pass without bipartisan agreement on ethics provisions. The bill divides crypto regulation between the CFTC and SEC and has faced delays over ethics and stablecoin yield provisions. Democrats have sought to address concerns about the Trump family's expanding crypto businesses.
The US President has confirmed his attendance for the Florida event, but it's unclear whether Tron founder Justin Sun, suing the Trump family's crypto business, will appear.
Entrepreneur Justin Sun filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing a Trump family-backed cryptocurrency platform of fraud and alleging he was blocked from withdrawing his assets. In a San Francisco federal court filing reviewed by Agence France-Presse, the Chinese-born crypto billionaire and former Trump ally claims to have bought US$45 million worth of WLFI, an electronic currency launched by World Liberty Financial in October 2024. To thank him for the investment – at a time when WLFI was...
A lawsuit alleges that World Liberty secretly installed tools to prevent the sale of Justin Sun's tokens after they became tradable in September 2025.
A lawsuit alleges that World Liberty secretly installed tools to prevent the sale of Justin Sun's tokens after they became tradable in September 2025.
Justin Sun, founder of TRON and billionaire crypto investor, has filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial, co-founded by Donald Trump and Eric Trump, alleging the firm illegally froze his WLFI tokens worth up to $1bn and stripped his voting rights. Sun invested $45m in World Liberty and an additional $100m in Trump's meme coins, but claims he is now blocked from selling any tokens while the WLFI price has plummeted from 31 cents to under 8 cents since September. World Liberty denies wrongdoing, calling Sun's allegations baseless.
Justin Sun, founder of TRON and billionaire crypto investor, has filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial, co-founded by Donald Trump and Eric Trump, alleging an illegal scheme to seize his WLFI tokens. Sun invested $45m in the venture and claims his tokens, once valued at over $1bn, have been frozen and his voting rights stripped. The WLFI token has plummeted from 31 cents to under 8 cents since September. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, coinciding with the SEC's decision to drop its investigation into Sun, prompting Senator Elizabeth Warren to question whether the actions were connected to Sun's investments in Trump's crypto ventures.
Prominent Maga bros have suggested the 20-year-old son of the US president should be called up this year. Why does this seem so vanishingly unlikely?It can’t be easy being the youngest son of a man who compares himself to the son of God. Rather a lot to live up to, isn’t there? Still, Barron Trump seems to be taking it in his stride. Rather than rebelling and becoming a socialist, the 20-year-old is shaping up to be just like dad: Barron is already worth $150m, according to a 2025 Forbes calculation. That’s largely from World Liberty Financial, a Trump family cryptocurrency company he co-founded. (Reportedly it’s Barron who got the president into crypto.)Barron isn’t just trading alt-coins. The university student has also launched a yerba mate brand called Sollos. (Yerba mate is a caffeinated herbal tea from South America). And he’s been engaged with politics behind the scenes. Barron is widely credited for boosting his dad’s most recent election campaign by connecting him to manosphere influencers such as Adin Ross and Theo Von. Continue reading...
