Surprising crypto giants pour millions into Trump’s inaugural fund
On Apr. 20, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) made the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee’s filings public.
The latest filings revealed that President Donald Trump raised $239 million for his inaugural fund between Nov. 15 and April 20, with crypto industry firms and leaders emerging as prominent donors.
Crypto payments firm Ripple donated $4.8 million, blockchain enterprise Solana Labs donated $1 million, the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) platform Ondo Finance donated $1 million, blockchain software firm Consensys donated $100,000 to the fund, and stablecoin issuer Circle donated $1 million. Hayden Adams, CEO of the decentralized crypto exchange Uniswap, donated more than $245,000. All these donations were made in January…
