孫宇晨拯救了川普的加密貨幣項目，讓他與前總統開展業務

這位出生於中國的 Tron 創始人宣布，他將投資 3,000 萬美元購買 World Liberty 代幣。這使得該項目跨過了門檻，川普家族現在至少可以籌集 1500 萬美元。

Donald Trump’s crypto project was floundering. But then Justin Sun stepped in with a $30 million investment, putting the Trumps in line to collect at least $15 million.

唐納德·川普的加密貨幣項目陷入困境。但隨後賈斯汀·孫 (Justin Sun) 介入，投資了 3000 萬美元，讓川普家族至少籌集了 1500 萬美元。

World Liberty Financial’s cryptocurrency isn’t very appealing as an investment. The tokens don’t promise a share of the company’s revenue. And the coins can’t be resold, unless the project’s rules are changed. But they do represent a good way to send money to the Trumps. Now that the project has received more than $30 million, 75% of all proceeds are paid to Trump’s company DT Marks DEFI LLC, according to the gold paper.

世界自由金融公司的加密貨幣作為投資並不是很有吸引力。這些代幣不承諾分享公司的收入。除非項目規則改變，否則這些代幣不能轉售。但它們確實是向川普家族匯款的好方法。金報稱，目前該項目已收到超過3,000萬美元，所有收益的75%支付給川普的公司DT Marks DEFI LLC。

Sun’s investment shows how Trump’s cryptocurrency — along with his publicly traded company, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. — present new opportunities for the wealthy to curry favor. During his first term, foreign governments spent millions of dollars at his Washington, DC, hotel. That conflict of interest looks “unbelievably quaint by comparison,” said Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, a nonprofit that scrutinizes executive branch appointees.

孫宇晨的投資表明，川普的加密貨幣以及他的上市公司川普媒體科技集團如何為富人提供討好的新機會。在他的第一個任期內，外國政府在他位於華盛頓特區的酒店花費了數百萬美元。負責審查行政部門任命者的非營利組織「旋轉門計畫」的執行董事傑夫·豪瑟表示，這種利益衝突「相比之下顯得異常古怪」。

“Foreign countries and rogue business people would have never thought to be as brash in cultivating an American president as what we are witnessing in the orbit around Trump,” Hauser said.

豪瑟說：“外國國家和流氓商人從來沒有想到會像我們在川普周圍看到的那樣傲慢地培養出一位美國總統。”

World Liberty Financial and the Trump transition team didn’t respond to requests for comment.

世界自由金融公司和川普過渡團隊沒有回應置評請求。

Born in China as Yuchen Sun, Sun has in recent years gone by the honorific “His Excellency” after he was made a diplomat by the Caribbean island of Grenada. (The current status of that appointment is unclear.)

孫雨辰出生於中國，近年來被加勒比海島國格林納達任命為外交官，近年來他被尊稱為「閣下」。 （該任命的當前狀態尚不清楚。）

He’s known for his self-aggrandizing stunts, like paying $4.5 million for a meal with Warren Buffett in 2019, spending $500,000 for an NFT rock in 2021, and announcing a plan to save Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX in 2022. (That never happened, nor did an announced $1 billion fund to save crypto in 2024.) He also made sure the world knew about his investment in World Liberty, a purchase he could’ve made anonymously, by announcing it on X.

他以自我誇大的噱頭而聞名，例如2019 年花450 萬美元與沃倫·巴菲特(Warren Buffett) 共進一頓飯，2021 年花費50 萬美元購買一塊NFT 搖滾樂，以及宣布計劃在2022 年拯救Sam Bankman-Fried 的加密貨幣交易所FTX。 ，他可以透過在X 上宣布匿名購買。

Sun said he hasn’t met with any of the Trumps but expects to meet one of them at a Bitcoin conference in Abu Dhabi next month. Eric Trump is scheduled to attend, according to the conference’s website. Sun said he didn’t expect any favors from Trump in exchange for his investment.

孫表示，他還沒有與川普家族的任何人會面，但預計下個月在阿布達比舉行的比特幣會議上會見其中一位。據會議網站稱，埃里克·川普計劃出席。孫說，他並不指望川普會以任何好處來換取他的投資。

Trump has pledged to replace SEC Chairman Gary Gensler with someone who’ll take a more conciliatory approach to crypto, and he’s been meeting with industry executives, including Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong, whose company is also fighting an SEC lawsuit, as he weighs who to appoint to run the agency.

川普承諾用對加密貨幣採取更溫和態度的人取代SEC 主席加里·詹斯勒(Gary Gensler)，他一直在與包括Coinbase Global Inc. 首席執行官布萊恩·阿姆斯特朗(Brian Armstrong) 在內的行業高管會面，該公司也在與SEC 提起訴訟。

“Gensler’s approach to crypto went from fact-driven to name-driven,” Sun says. “He turned into someone like, ‘I want to sue Coinbase, I want to sue Justin Sun, just find something so I can sue them.’”

「Gensler 的加密方法從事實驅動轉向了名稱驅動，」Sun 說。 “他變成了這樣的人，’我想起訴 Coinbase，我想起訴孫宇晨，只要找到一些東西，這樣我就可以起訴他們。’”

Crypto, Bibles, Sneakers

加密貨幣、聖經、運動鞋

World Liberty’s founders, Chase Herro and Zachary Folkman, were not well-known in the crypto industry. Folkman once taught classes about how to pick up women, and Herro has sold colon cleanses and get-rich-quick classes and called himself the “dirtbag of the internet.” But they hit it off with Trump’s sons. And Trump, who once called Bitcoin a “scam,” changed his tune after wealthy crypto investors started donating to his campaign. He began promoting World Liberty in September, part of a flurry of shilling that also included Trump sneakers, Bibles and digital trading cards, unprecedented for a presidential candidate.

World Liberty 的創辦人 Chase Herro 和 Zachary Folkman 在加密產業並不知名。福克曼曾經教授如何泡妞的課程，赫羅則出售結腸清潔和快速致富課程，並稱自己為「網路的垃圾袋」。但他們與川普的兒子們一拍即合。曾稱比特幣為「騙局」的川普在富有的加密貨幣投資者開始為他的競選活動捐款後改變了態度。他從九月開始宣傳“世界自由”，這是一系列先令的一部分，其中還包括川普運動鞋、聖經和數位交易卡，這對總統候選人來說是前所未有的。

“We’re embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind,” Trump said in a video posted on social media.

川普在社交媒體上發布的影片中表示：“我們正在用加密貨幣擁抱未來，並將緩慢而過時的大銀行拋在身後。”

Sun founded the Tron blockchain, popular in Asia, in 2017, raising about $70 million by selling a proprietary token called TRX. The SEC’s lawsuit against Sun alleges that he engaged in manipulative trading to pump up the value of TRX and another token, and that celebrities including Jake Paul and Lindsay Lohan received undisclosed payments to promote it.

Sun 於 2017 年創立了在亞洲流行的 Tron 區塊鏈，透過出售名為 TRX 的專有代幣籌集了約 7000 萬美元。美國證券交易委員會對 Sun 的訴訟稱，他參與了操縱交易，以抬高 TRX 和另一種代幣的價值，並且包括 Jake Paul 和 Lindsay Lohan 在內的名人收到了未公開的付款來宣傳它。

Sun has denied the allegations, and one of his lawyers said in a court filing in May that the supposedly manipulative trades cited by the SEC accounted for such a tiny fraction of trading that they couldn’t have had the alleged effect. (Lohan and Paul settled with the SEC for $40,670 and $101,887, respectively, neither admitting nor denying the claims.)

孫宇晨否認了這些指控，他的一位律師在 5 月的一份法庭文件中表示，美國證券交易委員會引用的所謂操縱交易只佔交易量的一小部分，因此不可能產生所謂的效果。 （Lohan 和 Paul 分別以 40,670 美元和 101,887 美元與 SEC 達成和解，既不承認也不否認這些索賠。）

‘Crime Syndicates’

“犯罪集團”

Tron has been criticized for facilitating illicit activity. It hosted 45% of all illicit flows last year, more than Ethereum or Bitcoin, the blockchain tracking firm TRM Labs said in a March report. And in October, the United

Tron 因促進非法活動而受到批評。區塊鏈追蹤公司 TRM Labs 在 3 月的報告中表示，去年，它託管了 45% 的非法資金流，超過了以太坊或比特幣。十月份，聯合國