For weeks, wealthy individuals have picked up the cryptocurrency of the Trump family in the hope of raising enough to qualify for one of the 220 seats during a dinner with President Donald Trump himself. In the words of Trump’s own website: “Competition is fierce. Now the classification is final and winners around the world should go down to Washington, DC, to rub shoulders with the most powerful man in the world. So who’s going?
Although the classification is public, the identity of each winner – obsessed with the pseudonym addresses of the blockchain – is not. But an analysis of Fortune revealed that 18 of the 25 best holders interacted with Binance, an exchange of foreign crypto which excludes the Americans, which means that they are probably foreign nationals.
Meanwhile, some of the winners – whose best 25 have the right to attend an “ultra -exclusive private VIP reception” – have been identified publicly or have been identified by a cryptographic analysis company. Here are three guests who should go to the “gala dinner”, which criticisms castigated as an example of unprecedented corruption.
The White House did not respond to a request for comments.
Crypto Chinese billionaire Justin Sun
With more than $ 18 million in Trump, according to Monday prices, the first place in the ranking is simply identified by the name of “Sun”. The Crypto Arkham Intelligence and Nansen Crypto Analysis Societies said the portfolio was linked to HTX, an exchange of crypto for which justin Sun billionaire service As a global advisor.
Nor sun, who said Forbes In March, its net value exceeded $ 40 billion or HTX responded to requests for comments.
The billionaire is a controversial figure in the cryptographic industry. Born in China, Sun founded Tron, a blockchain that hosted 58% of all illicit crypto activities in 2024, according to a report of the Cryptographic Analysis Society TRM Labs. (Illicit crypto volumes on Tron, however, decreased by $ 6 billion compared to the previous year.)
Sun found himself in the midst of many cryptographic debacles. More recently, he would have pushed Crypto trade outlet Pear To increase a story about the way the billionaire crypto bought and ate a banana of $ 6.2 million.
Singapore Crypto Firm Memecore
With around $ 17.5 million in Trump, the second largest holder in the ranking is the Singaporean cryptop startup Memecore, according to publications from The Firm and Nansen.
Founded in January 2024, the firm built a blockchain for the same, or cryptocurrencies created as a jokes of no inherent value, said HSU, Director of Business of the same Fortune. Trump himself is one of the most “emblematic memes”, she said.
HSU did not share exactly how the company finances its investments in Trump cryptography, but it said that part of the money came from the “internal treasury bills” of the company as well as one of the anonymous co -founders of the startup, whose identity refused to share. This anonymous founder will attend dinner with Trump on May 22, according to HSU.
The executive even did not know who else planned to attend dinner and was also curious to see the guest list. “For what [do] Do you want to join this? She asked.
Australian investor Kain Warwick
Although he is not one of Trump Memecoin’s 25 best holders, Kain Warwick, an Australian crypto investor, made the top 220, according to The New York Times. (Warick did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fortune.)
The founder of the Crypto Infinex company, Warwick played basketball with his children one weekend afternoon in January when he saw on social networks that the 47th president had apparently launched his own same, according to his X account.
He did not know if the cryptocurrency was legitimately that of Trump and worked feverishly to verify that she was real. He finally made, invested money and started playing with his children again.
But, while taking his children to the beach, he doubled his bet. “Yesterday was a unique opportunity”, he wroteReflecting a Trump cryptocurrency a day later.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
