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A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million

Paige Oamek, Joel Khalili, Natasha Bernal

created: May 12, 2025, 7:19 p.m. | updated: May 15, 2025, 5:22 p.m.

The identities of the investors who vied for a place are concealed behind leaderboard usernames and alphanumeric crypto wallet addresses. To qualify for the reception, these VIPs held around 325,000 TRUMP coins on average, worth $4.3 million as of 1:30 pm ET. The biggest spender, an investor going by the name Sun, topped the leaderboard with around 1.43 million TRUMP coins, worth over $19 million. (The wallet going by Sun sold nearly $1 million worth of TRUMP before the contest ended.) Despite the scoring system favoring investors who held TRUMP coins the longest, a number of qualifying VIPs entered the competition at a late stage.

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