Founder of Tron Blockchain Justin Sun who recently made headlines after buying a banana duct taped to a wall for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction and announced that he had become the largest investor in Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial. “We are thrilled to invest $30 million World Liberty Financial @worldlibertyfi as its largest investor,” Sun wrote in a post on X. “TRON is committed to making America great again and driving innovation.”
World Liberty Financial is Trump’s latest crypto platform launched before the election where customers will be encouraged to borrow, lend and invest in digital coins.
5 things to know about Justin Sun
- Justin Sun, 34, is a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur and business executive. He is the founder of Tron.
- Sun studied history at Peking University and then a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
- Sun also owns Rainberry which developed the BitTorrent protocol.
- In 2023, Sun was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that Sun and its companies engaged in fraudulent activity to drive up the price of Tron.
- Sun was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization in 2021. In March 2023, Sun stepped down from his position. In October 2024, Sun was elected “Speaker of Congress” and appointed “Prime Minister” of the self-proclaimed country of Liberland.
Sun said he would probably eat $6.2 million bananas
After his purchase of a banana duct-taped wall called ‘Comedian’, Justin Sun said he plans to eat a banana. Bidding for the banana artwork opened at $800,000 and topped $1.5 million in just a minute. Sun was the winner and said Banana Art represents a cultural phenomenon that connects the worlds of art, memes and the cryptocurrency community.
Justin Sun said he plans to tape bananas to a spaceship and send them to the moon. But he also tends to eat them to “complete the decentralized cycle of this artwork”.