Justin Solar, the founding father of the Tron blockchain, introduced this week that he had bought yet one more $100 million of Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP. Solar already owns a considerable quantity of the asset. The crypto mogul additionally introduced that the coin would quickly be tradable on his blockchain.
All of that is difficult by the truth that Solar nonetheless seems to be slowed down in a civil fraud case introduced towards him by the Securities and Change Fee. In 2023, the SEC launched a lawsuit towards Solar and his firms, accusing them of market manipulation. In February, stories indicated that the SEC was in search of a possible decision to the case. This was not lengthy after Solar had invested $30 million into Trump’s different crypto venture, World Liberty Monetary. There hasn’t been an replace since then.
″$TRUMP on TRON is the forex of #MAGA,” Solar wrote on X on Wednesday. “This transfer highlights our perception in collaborating throughout ecosystems to develop the crypto panorama,” he added.
You may suppose that purchasing tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of the president’s cryptocurrency on the similar time that you simply’re mired in a federal authorized case is a battle of curiosity—and it positive looks as if one—however that’s not notably surprising today. The Trump administration’s tagline may as effectively be Making Conflicts of Curiosity Acceptable Once more, given the extent of doubtful habits occurring for the time being.
It’s considerably mystifying as to why Solar can be so occupied with Trump’s crypto initiatives. CNBC notes:
The $TRUMP coin has whipsawed since its January launch, peaking at a $15 billion market cap on its first day of buying and selling earlier than sliding sharply to about $2 billion as of July. The complementary $MELANIA token, in the meantime, has plunged greater than 90% from its providing value in January to lower than $141 million.
Solar is an fascinating character, and clearly has loads of cash to burn—possibly an excessive amount of. Final yr, he used $6 million to purchase an artwork piece that was only a banana taped to a wall. He subsequently ate the banana, displaying a sure artistic brilliance with regards to producing ridiculous methods to burn money for no cause in any respect. His firms embrace the Tron Basis Restricted, BitTorrent Basis Ltd., and Rainberry Inc. (previously BitTorrent).
