The gathering was hosted during Dubai's Token2049 conference, which drew more than 10,000 crypto enthusiasts and investors from all over the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems like a triumph for a cryptocurrency industry that has long sought mainstream acceptance: Top investors in one of President Donald Trump ’s crypto projects invited to dine with him at his luxury golf club in Northern Virginia on the heels of the Senate advancing key pro-crypto legislation and while bitcoin prices soar.

President Donald Trump is welcoming the top investors of his personal cryptocurrency, $TRUMP Coin, to the president’s golf club in Virginia on Thursday. It's an event some believe violates anti-corruption laws — something that even his son Eric Trump thought might mean the event couldn't happen.

Justin Sun — who owns $19 million worth of President Trump's meme coin — will attend a dinner with the president, after regulators paused a Biden-era lawsuit against Sun.

CNN's Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny said the $TRUMP meme coin dinner on Thursday night appears to show that Trump is 'enriching himself.'

Two co-founders of Dough Finance, a defi startup that was targeted by hackers last summer, are now playing a key role in the fastest-growing part of the Trump family's crypto business, which has funneled $400 million to the first family.

Trump’s family controls World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm behind USD1—a new stablecoin now trading on KuCoin.

American Bitcoin, a crypto mining firm launched by Eric Trump, has plans to merge with a listed crypto company.