孙宇晨拯救了特朗普的加密货币项目，让他与前总统开展业务

这位出生于中国的 Tron 创始人宣布，他将投资 3000 万美元购买 World Liberty 代币。这使得该项目跨过了门槛，特朗普家族现在至少可以筹集 1500 万美元。

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.

唐纳德·特朗普的加密货币项目陷入困境。但随后贾斯汀·孙 (Justin Sun) 介入，投资了 3000 万美元，让特朗普家族至少筹集了 1500 万美元。

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货币作为投资并不是很有吸引力。这些代币不承诺分享公司的收入。除非项目规则发生改变，否则这些代币不能转售。但它们确实是向特朗普家族汇款的好方法。金报称，目前该项目已收到超过3000万美元，所有收益的75%支付给特朗普的公司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.

孙宇晨的投资表明，特朗普的加密货币以及他的上市公司特朗普媒体科技集团如何为富人提供讨好的新机会。在他的第一个任期内，外国政府在他位于华盛顿特区的酒店花费了数百万美元。负责审查行政部门任命者的非营利组织“旋转门项目”的执行董事杰夫·豪瑟表示，这种利益冲突“相比之下显得异常古怪”。

“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.

豪瑟说：“外国国家和流氓商人从来没有想到会像我们在特朗普周围看到的那样傲慢地培养出一位美国总统。”

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

世界自由金融公司和特朗普过渡团队没有回应置评请求。

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.)

孙雨辰出生于中国，近年来被加勒比岛国格林纳达任命为外交官，近年来他被尊称为“阁下”。 （该任命的当前状态尚不清楚。）

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.

他以自我夸大的噱头而闻名，比如 2019 年花 450 万美元与沃伦·巴菲特 (Warren Buffett) 共进一顿饭，2021 年花费 50 万美元购买一块 NFT 摇滚乐，以及宣布计划在 2022 年拯救 Sam Bankman-Fried 的加密货币交易所 FTX。（这从未发生过）发生了，也没有宣布 10 亿美元基金在 2024 年拯救加密货币。）他还确保全世界都知道关于他对 World Liberty 的投资，他可以通过在 X 上宣布来匿名购买。

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.

孙表示，他还没有与特朗普家族的任何人会面，但预计下个月在阿布扎比举行的比特币会议上会见其中一位。据会议网站称，埃里克·特朗普计划出席。孙说，他并不指望特朗普会以任何好处来换取他的投资。

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.

特朗普承诺用对加密货币采取更加温和态度的人取代 SEC 主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler)，他一直在与包括 Coinbase Global Inc. 首席执行官布莱恩·阿姆斯特朗 (Brian Armstrong) 在内的行业高管会面，该公司也在与 SEC 提起诉讼。当他权衡任命谁来管理该机构时。

“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 的加密方法从事实驱动转向了名称驱动，”Sun 说。 “他变成了这样的人，‘我想起诉 Coinbase，我想起诉孙宇晨，只要找到一些东西，这样我就可以起诉他们。’”

Crypto, Bibles, Sneakers

加密货币、圣经、运动鞋

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 的创始人 Chase Herro 和 Zachary Folkman 在加密行业并不知名。福克曼曾经教授如何泡妞的课程，赫罗则出售结肠清洁和快速致富课程，并称自己为“互联网的垃圾袋”。但他们与特朗普的儿子们一拍即合。曾称比特币为“骗局”的特朗普在富有的加密货币投资者开始为他的竞选活动捐款后改变了态度。他从九月份开始宣传“世界自由”，这是一系列先令的一部分，其中还包括特朗普运动鞋、圣经和数字交易卡，这对于总统候选人来说是前所未有的。

“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.

特朗普在社交媒体上发布的视频中表示：“我们正在用加密货币拥抱未来，并将缓慢而过时的大银行抛在身后。”

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 于 2017 年创立了在亚洲流行的 Tron 区块链，通过出售名为 TRX 的专有代币筹集了约 7000 万美元。美国证券交易委员会对 Sun 的诉讼称，他参与了操纵交易，以抬高 TRX 和另一种代币的价值，并且包括 Jake Paul 和 Lindsay Lohan 在内的名人收到了未公开的付款来宣传它。

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.)

孙宇晨否认了这些指控，他的一位律师在 5 月份的一份法庭文件中表示，美国证券交易委员会引用的所谓操纵交易只占交易量的一小部分，因此不可能产生所谓的效果。 （Lohan 和 Paul 分别以 40,670 美元和 101,887 美元与 SEC 达成和解，既不承认也不否认这些索赔。）

‘Crime Syndicates’

“犯罪集团”

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 因促进非法活动而受到批评。区块链追踪公司 TRM Labs 在 3 月份的一份报告中表示，去年，它托管了 45% 的非法资金流，超过了以太坊或比特币。十月份，联合国