{"id":90009,"date":"2024-11-26T02:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=90009"},"modified":"2024-11-26T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T07:54:21","slug":"banana-auction-billionaires-30-million-investment-in-trumps-crypto-token-highlights-new-ways-to-enrich-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2024\/banana-auction-billionaires-30-million-investment-in-trumps-crypto-token-highlights-new-ways-to-enrich-president-elect.html","title":{"rendered":"Banana auction billionaire\u2019s $30 million investment in Trump\u2019s crypto token highlights new ways to enrich president-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Tron blockchain founder Justin Sun has invested $30 million into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;crypto project, World Liberty Financial, he announced Monday. \u201cWe are thrilled to invest $30 million in World Liberty Financial&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/worldlibertyfi\" target=\"_blank\">@worldlibertyfi<\/a>&nbsp;as its largest investor,\u201d Sun&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1861121947372773545\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a post on X<\/a>. Sun recently made&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/crypto-investor-justin-sun-banana-comedian-sotheby-auction.html\">national headlines<\/a>&nbsp;when he spent $6.2 million at a Sotheby\u2019s auction for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/crypto-investor-justin-sun-banana-comedian-sotheby-auction.html\">banana duct-taped to a wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/25\/trump-crypto-justin-sun-investment.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Tron blockchain founder Justin Sun has invested $30 million into&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2019s&nbsp;crypto project, World Liberty Financial, he announced Monday. \u201cWe are thrilled to invest $30 million in World Liberty Financial&nbsp;@worldlibertyfi&nbsp;as its largest investor,\u201d Sun&nbsp;wrote in a post on X. Sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90017,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90009\/revisions\/90017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}