{"id":36113,"date":"2025-07-10T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36113"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:46:47","slug":"justin-sun-wants-to-make-trump-a-global-crypto-brand-with-100m-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36113","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Wants to Make TRUMP a Global Crypto Brand With $100M Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin Sun\u2019s $100 million TRUMP token buy signals a strategic alignment with the U.S. administration\u2019s pro-crypto stance and marks the first of many planned collaborations with the Trump team, the Tron founder told CoinDesk in an interview.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first investment the Tron founder has made in projects within the Trump-crypto universe.<\/p>\n

Sun\u2019s ties to Trump-affiliated crypto ventures date back to shortly after last year\u2019s election, when he purchased approximately $75 million worth of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens<\/a> in multiple tranches.<\/p>\n

Sun said the TRUMP token, originally issued on Solana, will soon be bridged to Tron using LayerZero<\/a>, with plans to make it a flagship asset within the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

“I think Tron has the potential to become the next-generation settlement layer \u2014 not only for stablecoins, but also for meme coins and other popular assets,” Sun said. <\/p>\n

Beyond technical integration, Sun described Tron’s plans for the TRUMP token as a global expansion strategy targeting Asia and Africa, alongside campaigns to boost adoption and exchange listings.<\/p>\n

That marks a stark contrast to the earlier days of politically themed tokens, such as the unofficial Donald Trump fan coin, MAGA<\/a>, which struggled to get listed on exchanges because it was deemed<\/a> \u201ctoo political\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n

“We will make TRUMP token very popular in Asia and in the rest of the world,” he said. \u201cTRUMP is a very important memecoin, and a globally recognized IP.\u201d<\/p>\n

He framed the initiative as part of a broader effort to tie Tron\u2019s growth to a friendlier regulatory climate under President Trump, and hinted at further collaborations spanning stablecoins and DeFi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Trump administration showing great support for cryptocurrency, I think we are entering a new chapter for the industry,\u201d Sun said, comparing the White House’s embrace of crypto to former President Bill Clinton’s initiatives to push adoption of the internet in the 1990s \u2013 and make the U.S. the hub for its development.<\/p>\n

“I think that\u2019s something that will benefit the US for the next 20, 50, even 100 years,” Sun continued.<\/p>\n

This optimistic view isn’t exactly universally held.<\/p>\n

As CoinDesk previously reported<\/a>, Democrat lawmakers are working on the Modern Emoluments and Malfeasance Enforcement (MEME) Act, which would seek to prohibit presidents and their families from dabbling in memecoins or issuing other financial assets.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s pay-to-play politics on steroids, and Trump is cashing in,” is how a release from the office of U.S. Senator Chris Murphy<\/a>, a sponsor of the MEME Act, described it. <\/p>\n

Tron Inc. is only the beginning<\/h2>\n

Aside from the TRUMP token buy, Sun discussed Tron Inc., a company undergoing a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment as part of a plan to create a publicly traded vehicle aligned with the Tron ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more U.S. institutional investors will find the Tron strategy as a good way to invest into the crypto ecosystem,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it will become a beacon for people to get into crypto.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, he said, there are more to come.<\/p>\n

Read more: Asia Morning Briefing: Tron’s Public Listing Might Be Investors’ ‘Visa’ Moment for Stablecoins<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Justin Sun\u2019s $100 million TRUMP token buy signals a strategic alignment with the U.S. administration\u2019s pro-crypto stance and marks the first of many planned collaborations with the Trump team, the Tron founder told CoinDesk in an interview. This isn’t the first investment the Tron founder has made in projects within the Trump-crypto universe. Sun\u2019s ties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-36113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}