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Trump’s Mar a Lago crypto dinner is one of the cleanest examples yet of what crypto becomes or has become when speculative markets, personal branding, political power and access capitalism collapse into 1 machine. Today, on April 25, Trump is scheduled to appear at a private “Crypto and Business Conference” at Mar a Lago for holders of the $TRUMP scam memecoin. Attendance is not based on public service, expertise, contribution to the ecosystem or democratic legitimacy. It is based on token ownership. The top 297 holders were invited, and the top 29 holders were promised additional VIP access, including a reception with Trump. That means access to a sitting president was functionally organised through a memecoin leaderboard. Senators Warren, Schiff and Blumenthal have already requested documents about whether Trump helped plan, promote or profit from the event, and their letter states that CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of the Trump Organization, and Fight Fight Fight LLC collectively own 80% of Trump Cards and receive trading revenue from $TRUMP activity. The entire structure is rotten because the incentive is obvious. Create a coin around a political figure. Let retail speculate on proximity to power. Reward the biggest holders with access. Keep trading activity alive through attention, events, headlines and artificial scarcity. Then frame the whole thing as “community”, “business” or “innovation”, while the real product is not technology at all. The real product is proximity. A memecoin is already one of the most reflexive and manipulable assets in crypto. Its value is not tied to productive cash flow, infrastructure, earnings, adoption or real world utility. It lives from narrative, liquidity, attention and social coordination. The Guardian correctly described memecoins as highly volatile tokens whose value is not tied to a real world asset, but to something that has gone viral online. Sad but true. Now attach that instrument to the president of the United States and suddenly the speculative object is no longer just a joke. It becomes a tool for influence, access and political monetisation. The facts are already bad enough without exaggeration. The event is tied to the top holders of Trump’s own memecoin. The top 29 holders receive superior access. Last year’s Trump coin dinner reportedly brought in $148 million and was criticised by Democrats and watchdog groups as a pay to play conflict because it was not campaign fundraising but personal financial benefit. This year’s event is being held again, while the token itself is collapsing. The approximate minimum holdings needed to attend the 2025 Trump memecoin dinner were about $55,000, while 1 apparent invitee for the 2026 conference held about $8,460 worth of TRUMP when the leaderboard closed. $TRUMP traded around $14.67 on the day of the 2025 gathering, but was around $2.53 now. In plain English: even the access trade is decaying. The hype is weaker, the token is weaker, and the only thing still functioning is the extraction model. The Independent also reported that the median holdings needed for this year’s VIP access were around $539,000, down from about $3.28 million last year, a drop of more than 80%. The same report said Trump was expected to speak at the crypto event before returning to Washington for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner later that evening. So on the same day, the president moves from a private memecoin access event to a press freedom dinner, while his administration and personal brand remain deeply entangled with media attacks, crypto ventures and monetised political spectacle. For years, this industry claimed to stand against banks, corruption, insider privilege, opaque power structures and rigged access. Then the same crowd lines up to buy a president’s memecoin because maybe, somehow, being close to power will make them early. That is just begging for a seat at the smallest table in the system. The $TRUMP dinner is not a crypto event. It is a mirror. It shows a market where ideology gets sold as liquidity, patriotism gets sold as branding, access gets sold as utility and retail gets sold the fantasy that holding a token means holding influence. The most brutal part is that none of this is hidden. I call it one of the clearest political grifts crypto has ever produced. Because when a token gives you access to power, that is feudalism with a contract address.

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Here are a few uplifting Binance news from the last days and weeks. Mega bullish. According to the Wall Street Journal, Binance investigators traced more than $1 billion in suspicious flows tied to Iran linked networks, with internal findings reportedly flagging as much as $1.7 billion. Binance denies the allegations and sued the WSJ for defamation. Very normal behavior for the world’s largest exchange. Meanwhile Senator Richard Blumenthal is still on Binance’s neck. On April 1 he pressed the company over potential misrepresentations tied to money laundering and terrorist financing concerns. On April 17 he followed up with DOJ and Treasury, asking what exactly the compliance monitors are doing and whether Binance is actually honoring the 2023 settlement. Apparently “trust us bro” was not enough... Australia then slapped Binance Australia Derivatives with a A$10 million penalty after more than 85% of its local clients were misclassified, exposing them to risky derivatives without the protections retail users are supposed to have. Regulators said this caused more than A$12 million in losses and fees. Binance had already paid A$13.1 million in compensation. Elite compliance. Bullish. It gets better. Users were apparently allowed to keep retaking the sophistication test until they passed. So Binance’s version of investor protection seems to have been: just keep clicking until the safeguards disappear. In the U.S., Binance also failed to shove customer loss claims into arbitration. A federal judge ruled the exchange did not properly notify users about changes to its arbitration clause, so those claims can keep moving in court. Another inspiring chapter in the Binance compliance fairy tale. And in case anyone forgot the broader backdrop , Changpeng Zhao had already pleaded guilty in the U.S., Binance agreed to a $4.3 billion settlement, and Trump later pardoned him on October 23, 2025. So yes, the founder of the exchange that admitted massive anti money laundering failures got a presidential cleanup and the scandal conveyor belt still kept moving. Extremely bullish governance. Then there is the political sewage around the Trump orbit. I tweeted all of that many months ago. Trump linked World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin was used for MGX’s $2 billion investment into Binance. AP has separately noted that Binance and Zhao were financial backers of Trump family crypto ventures. So this is no longer just an exchange story. It is sanctions smoke, compliance failures, court setbacks, pardons, Gulf money, and political entanglement all in 1 toxic pile. Binance remains the same old story. Too big. Too dirty. Too connected. Too protected. Bullish.

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For anyone interested, here is the full story and my social-investigation with all names around $RAVE @ravedao: RaveDAO presents itself as a Web3 entertainment project mixing EDM culture, live events, NFT based attendance, crypto payments, DAO governance and philanthropy. According to RaveDAO’s own site and whitepaper, it began as a 200 person afterparty in November 2023, grew into events averaging around 3,000 attendees, gives attendees an NFT proof of participation, and sends 20% of event proceeds to community chosen causes. Its official material also says it has staged activations in Dubai, Brussels, Seoul, Singapore and Bangkok, issued 50,000+ NFT tickets, and reached 100,000+ participants across 5 countries in 2024 and 2025. So this is not the cleanest example of pure vaporware. The real world event side appears documented. The problem is the token market structure, not the mere existence of a brand or some actual events. Official materials even name specific philanthropy beneficiaries such as Tilganga Eye Center in Nepal and Nalanda West in Seattle. (Yes...) The project’s own site describes the Singapore Token2049 ENL1GHT activation as a 55,000 square foot event with 3,000+ attendees, 40+ VIP tables, 95% of those tables paid in crypto, and 20% of proceeds directed to charity. On the token side, the official whitepaper gives $RAVE a total supply of 1,000,000,000. It says about 23.03% entered circulation at the token generation event, while the rest follows a vesting schedule. The listed allocation is 31% ecosystem, 30% community, 20% team and co builders, 6% foundation and impact pool, 5% early supporters, 5% liquidity, and 3% initial airdrop. (If you add everything up and include the CEXs, around 98% of the supply is insider held, including the team, by the way.) Have fun... Most of those categories have a 12 month cliff and 36 month linear vesting. The project’s own contract page lists official contracts on Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain and Base, with the main Ethereum contract at 0x17205fab260a7a6383a81452cE6315A39370Db97. The official utility story is the usual big narrative package: governance, staking for organizers, artists and vendors, ticket and table payments, community rewards, ecosystem grants, plus buyback and burn from part of event profits. On paper, that is enough to sell a strong story. In practice, a strong story is not the same thing as honest price discovery. Timeline: -November 2023: RaveDAO says it started as a 200 person afterparty during a crypto conference. 2024: The project says it expanded into larger flagship events tied to major crypto and cultural gatherings, including Dubai Token2049, Brussels EthCC, Seoul Korea Blockchain Week, Singapore Token2049 and Bangkok DevCon. -October 3, 2025: RaveDAO’s own site lists its Singapore Token2049 event at Pasir Panjang Power Station. The project describes it as ENL1GHT, a 55,000 square foot activation during Token2049 and F1 week. -October 22 to 26, 2025: The official site lists a RaveDAO x 30th ADE activation in Amsterdam. -December 12, 2025: Bitget announced spot trading for RAVE/USDT. -December 14, 2025: Binance Futures launched the RAVEUSDT perpetual contract with up to 20x leverage. That mattered, because perps later became a major part of the price action and liquidation machine. 2026 roadmap: RaveDAO’s whitepaper says the next expansion targets are Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York, with a goal of 100,000+ annual attendance. At the same time, the project’s Instagram promotions show a sold out Dim Sum Rave at Lin Heung Lau in Hong Kong for April 18, 2026. March 12 to April 18, 2026: CoinGecko shows RAVE moving from an all time low of $0.2063 on March 12 to an all time high of $27.88 on April 18. That is a move of more than 6,000% in roughly 1 month. CoinGecko also shows about 248,044,444 tokens in circulation and a market cap around $3.0 billion after the pullback. April 14 to 18, 2026: The squeeze became so extreme that Coindesk reported about $43 million in liquidations, putting RAVE behind only bitcoin and ether on that metric, while Bitget’s own market notes described a 24 hour move from roughly $7 to $18 with total futures liquidations around $43 million. April 18, 2026: ZachXBT publicly alleged that the RAVE pump and dump activity originated through Bitget, Binance and Gate, said insiders may have controlled more than 90% of RAVE liquidity, and offered up to $10,000 for information. To me, this is pure nonsense, because it was shady from the very beginning, and once Binance is involved... you already know. PANews and CryptoBriefing both summarized the allegation the same day. These are allegations, but they matter because they match the market structure red flags. Why the token screams red flags? Oh well.. The biggest red flag is concentration. blockchain data showed roughly 90% of RAVE supply in 3 wallets and more than 98% in the top 10. Another of my result showed nearly 90% of the 248 million supply sitting in 3 wallets. In a market with that kind of float concentration, price can be forced, liquidity can be staged, and traders can be farmed. The second red flag is derivatives. #Binance launched RAVE perps in December 2025, Bitget listed spot, and by mid April 2026 liquidations had already reached about $43 million. That means the token was not just being traded. It was being weaponized as a short squeeze instrument. How do people still arrive at the point of saying this needs to be investigated? It is obvious. And as always, no one will end up behind bars. The third red flag is the gap between story and valuation. Official materials talk about events, chapters, licensing, governance and philanthropy. But CoinGecko showed the token briefly reaching a multi billion dollar market cap and almost $13 billion fully diluted valuation on today, April 18, 2026. That is an enormous valuation for a project whose official growth thesis is still based on scaling events and community chapters. The fourth red flag is holder quality. Etherscan showed about 12,139 holders on April 18. In other words, for something briefly valued in the billions, the ownership base was still thin. That is exactly the kind of structure where whales and exchange venues can dominate price behaviour far more easily than the crowd. Current status as of today, April 18, 2026: CoinGecko showed RAVE at $11.78 after a 29.5% daily decline, with a 24 hour range of $12.10 to $27.88, about $336 million in 24 hour volume, around 250 million circulating tokens and a market cap just over $3.0 billion. The same page records the new all time high at $27.88 earlier on April 18. That is not normal organic price action. That is a battlefield. My factual read is simple: RaveDAO does appear to have a real event brand, documented live activations and an official roadmap. But the token structure and the April 2026 move look deeply unhealthy. Between the extreme wallet concentration, the thin holder base, the billion dollar valuation jump, the perp driven squeeze, and public allegations, $RAVE looks far less like organic adoption and far more like a high risk extraction game where the house has most of the chips. 1 honest line for CT from me: I am sorry people, but almost everything pumping lately is exactly 1 thing: a centralised scam. Real on chain buyers are gone. What remains are a few hardened long term holders and gamblers providing free liquidity to scammers.

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TRUMP DIDN'T START THE IRAN WAR TO DESTROY IRAN. HE STARTED IT TO SAVE THE U.S. DOLLAR. Before the first bomb dropped, the petrodollar was visibly falling apart, Fast. Saudi Arabia publicly said for the first time since 1974 that it was open to settling oil in other currencies. Then the actions followed. China and Saudi Arabia signed a 50 billion yuan currency swap. Saudi Arabia joined mBridge, the system built explicitly to bypass SWIFT and the dollar. The original 1974 petrodollar agreement was allowed to expire without renewal. India was buying Russian oil settled in rupees and yuan. One fifth of all global oil trade was already settling outside the dollar by 2023. The dollar's share of global reserves had fallen to a 30 year low. The petrodollar was dying already. To understand why this matters you need to understand what the petrodollar actually is. It is a protection deal. In 1974, Kissinger flew to Riyadh and made a secret agreement with King Faisal. Saudi Arabia prices oil in dollars and recycles profits into US Treasuries. In return, America guarantees Saudi security. Weapons, troops, and the promise that US military keeps the shipping lanes open. Every OPEC member followed within a year. The arrangement gave Washington something extraordinary. A permanent buyer for its debt. The ability to borrow cheaply and run deficits indefinitely while maintaining the world's reserve currency. For fifty years Gulf states believed this was a partnership. It was not. It was leverage. And when Gulf states started building their own exits, that leverage had to be demonstrated again. On February 28, 2026, the demonstration began. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Kuwait has no bypass pipeline. Qatar sends 93% of its LNG through it. Saudi Arabia exports 5.5 million barrels per day through it. Multiple Gulf energy companies declared force majeure simultaneously for the first time in history. Oil hit $120. R Refineries were shut. The IEA called it the largest energy supply disruption in history. And the same Gulf states that had been quietly building yuan settlement systems and joining Chinese financial infrastructure found themselves with their entire economic survival at stake and only one country capable of doing anything about it. They went back to Washington and asked for help. Saudi Arabia reversed its refusal to grant the US military base access. The UAE declared willingness to join a US coalition. The GCC went to the UN and called for US-backed force to reopen the strait. Countries that had been distancing themselves from American dependence for two years were suddenly asking America to come back and protect them. That is not a coincidence, That is the leverage being applied. Now look at what happened to the dollar while all of this was happening. DXY surged to a 10 month high. Gold collapsed 13 to 20%, its worst month since 2013. Investors sold alternative stores of value and bought dollars. Every barrel of emergency oil released by the IEA was priced and settled in dollars. SWIFT data showed the dollar's share of global transactions at its highest level in years. And Gulf states who had been accumulating yuan and building alternative payment systems ended up spending their crisis buying American weapons instead. A $16.5 billion emergency arms package was approved during the war. The petrodollar recycling mechanism, dollars earned from oil flowing back into American defense industry, ran perfectly. Now look at what Trump had been saying for years before the war. He threatened BRICS nations with 100% tariffs if they backed any alternative to the dollar. He said directly that losing the world's reserve currency would be "like losing a war." His National Security Strategy, published one month before the bombs fell, explicitly named preventing any power from controlling Middle Eastern oil chokepoints as a core US interest. After the war started he posted publicly: "With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, and MAKE A FORTUNE." This is the part that should make every Gulf state rethink everything. The system was sold to them as a partnership. America protects you. You price oil in dollars. Mutual benefit. But when Gulf states started building exits, a war appeared that destroyed their ability to use those exits and forced them back into dependence. Gulf states spent two years building non dollar infrastructure. Then a crisis arrived that made all of it irrelevant overnight and left them with no option except to ask Washington for protection. The dollar surged. American weapons factories got new orders. And the countries trying to escape the system found themselves locked back inside it. That is a reset. And the people who paid for it are the same ones who always pay, The Gulf. The petrodollar was never a partnership. It was always a system designed to make American power self financing. The Iran war did not threaten that system. It renewed it.

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Actor Terrence Howard says he doesn’t like Bitcoin because he believes it’s “still based on fiat” and could be “wiped out with a button somewhere.” Terrence, can you tell us who supposedly owns this button?

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Can the Straight of Hormuz even be closed? Iran no longer has any ships or boats in the area. Their ability to communicate with each other is mostly eliminated. Their leadership is all dead. Iranian missile or drone teams probably have no idea when a ship is even moving through the Straight of Hormuz right now.

POV: Iran conflict broke out, bought Gold & Silver - shorted Crypto. Market opens, does exact opposite.

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Question.... ...would you support a crypto company with your money if it donated funds to pedophiles, fascists and criminals or was even in partnership with them? (Or...Decentralisation my ass) Donations to Trump’s 2025 inauguration fund total more than $18,000,000 alone from crypto: • Ripple donated about $4,900,000 in XRP • Robinhood donated about $2,000,000 • Coinbase donated about $1,000,000 • Kraken donated about $1,000,000 • Crypto com donated about $1,000,000 • Circle donated about $1,000,000 • Solana Labs donated about $1,000,000 • Galaxy Digital donated about $1,000,000 • Ondo Finance donated about $1,000,000 • Input Output Global Cardano donated about $250,000 • Yuga Labs donated about $100,000 • Consensys donated about $100,000 Additionally, Foris DAX Inc, the operator of Crypto com, reportedly gave about $20,000,000 to the Trump aligned MAGA Inc super PAC. Other reported crypto industry political donations and donors to Trump aligned PAC structures: • Gemini Trust Company reportedly donated about $1,500,000 in USDC to MAGA Inc • Blockchain com reportedly donated about $5,000,000 to MAGA Inc • Cameron Winklevoss reportedly donated about $500,000 to MAGA Inc • Tyler Winklevoss reportedly donated about $500,000 to MAGA Inc Separately, major crypto firms and investors including Coinbase, Ripple and Andreessen Horowitz were key contributors to the Fairshake crypto PAC, which became one of the largest political spending vehicles in the 2024 election cycle supporting pro crypto candidates. If not, it would be good for you to know that there are also projects and platforms doing business with $USD1 and $WLFI, including bonkfun and Raydium .