The Trump boys have been teasing a mysterious crypto project and, now, they have finally unveiled it. Well, sort of. Actually, it’s still not totally clear what the heck it is, though we now know the name of it, at least.
On Thursday, Donald Trump Jr. announced “The DeFiant Ones,” a new “crypto platform” that will help people do..
.uh, well that part isn’t entirely clear yet. On X, Don Jr.
linked to a Telegram page , where updates about “The DeFiant Ones” will be shared in the imminent future. From everything we’ve heard so far, the platform sounds vaguely like a crypto exchange. But that’s just a guess.
There’s scant information as to what the Trump boys are actually up to. All we have is the project’s hashtag: #bedefiant. Real cool, guys.
In a previous interview with the New York Post, Eric Trump described crypto as “digital real estate,” and claimed that decentralized finance could help lower-income Americans tap into the financial sector: “Essentially over half this country right now cannot be banked,” he said. “Meaning they will be rejected for most loans from most institutions. But with this technology, they could have the ability to almost instantaneously be approved or denied from a lender based on math, not policy.
Money could be in their account in minutes, not months.” The Block previously noted that, in July, trademark applications were filed for the catchphrase “Be DeFiant,” along with “World Liberty,” and “World Liber.