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Richard LawlerJul 1

Trump pulled in over $1 billion from crypto ventures last year.

The President’s annual disclosure noted that companies owned by Trump and his family received more than $800 million from the WLFI token and $635 million in royalties from Trump memecoins, report Reuters, WSJ, and CNBC.

CoinDesk points out the more than $50 million in Bitcoin, $25 million in ETH, investments in Coreweave and Coinbase, and $6 million from an NFT licensing agreement.

Trump 2026 Annual OGE disclosure

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Emma RothJun 25

Polymarket says it’s refunding some users after hackers stole their crypto.

In a post spotted by TechCrunch, Polymarket says “a 3rd party vendor had been compromised, injecting malicious script into our frontend for some users.”

The update comes just hours after blockchain security firm PeckShield notified users of a potential phishing campaign targeting Polymarket users. Around $3 million worth of Polymarket’s crypto token was drained from user wallets, PeckShield says.

Screenshot: The Verge via X

Richard LawlerJun 8

Sam Bankman-Fried wants a pardon from Trump.

The convicted FTX fraudster serving a 25-year prison sentence now has a formal filing for the presidential pardon he’s been openly seeking, plus a new jailhouse phone interview with Fox Business. He presumably hopes that was seen inside the White House, despite Donald Trump’s comments in January that he had no plan to pardon SBF.

Screenshot of the clemency case finder showing case number P338490 seeking a Pardon after Completion of Sentence for Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried

Screenshot: Office of the Pardon Attorney

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