Crypto Giants Secretly Bankroll Trump's Lavish Inauguration Bash

Holy smokes! New filings are spilling the beans that crypto heavyweights like Consensys, Solana, and Uniswap threw millions into the hat for Trump's inauguration party!

These crypto titans slipped their cash to Trump under the radar. A juicy FEC filing, dropped on April 20th, just blew the lid off the crypto industry's hush-hush contributions to Trump's inauguration fund.

Get this: Solana Labs, the big shot behind the Solana blockchain, shelled out a cool $1 million to Trump's shindig, and they didn't even shout it from the rooftops. Meanwhile, Hayden Adams, the mastermind at the helm of Uniswap, chipped in $245,000. And guess what? Crypto analytics gurus Consensys tossed in $100,000, all without making a peep about it.

All this helped Trump rake in a whopping $239 million for his glitzy event, with a spotlight on its corporate sugar daddies, including a bunch of crypto hotshots.

Ripple, Coinbase, and Kraken Drop Seven-Figure Bombshells

But wait, there's more! Other crypto behemoths were throwing down millions, ranking among the top dogs donating to the inaugural fund. The latest filing confirmed that Coinbase, Ripple Labs, Kraken, Ondo Finance, and Robinhood all went big, dropping seven figures into the pot, which they'd let slip earlier.

Ripple, the blockchain trailblazer, went all out, coughing up nearly $4.9 million for the bash. That's more than anyone else except for Pilgrim's Pride Corp, a poultry powerhouse. Other big names like Apple, Meta, and Apple's head honcho Tim Cook all dropped $1 million each. Even AI bigwigs, including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Perplexity AI, got in on the action.

Here's the kicker: while Uncle Sam foots the bill for the swearing-in ceremony, the wild parties around the inauguration? That's all private cash. That's why the candidate whips up a non-profit Presidential Inaugural Committee to hustle donations from private big shots.