Donald Trump’s second term is turning out to be a testing ground for digital money, and his family into its biggest private beneficiaries. It began as campaign talk about “making America the crypto capital of the world”, and is turning to a global financial project that fuses politics, foreign capital and volatile digital assets. In less than a year, the Trump orbit has built a network stretching from Manhattan to Abu Dhabi, generating hundreds of millions in cash and breaking the boundaries between business and government. The year Trump went all in on crypto When Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, ... (full story)