Key takeaways
- DeFi platform DeFiant Ones was announced by Donald Trump Jr. to revamp traditional financial systems.
- Over 42,000 subscribers have joined the official Telegram group for updates on the Trump DeFi project.
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Donald Trump Jr. has unveiled his cryptocurrency project that aims to operate outside of traditional banking systems. The initiative, dubbed “The DeFiant Ones,” was announced via the project’s official Telegram group.
In his statement, Trump Jr. described the move as a response to what he sees as exclusionary practices in the traditional financial sector.
“These banks and the elites who run them want absolute control, but that ends now,” he wrote in the group.
The ad references the Trump family’s past conflicts with financial institutions. Trump Jr. said his family has been “debanked, deplatformed and subjected to every political game imaginable.”
According to the statement, the platform aims to eliminate middlemen in financial transactions. Trump Jr. claimed this would reduce costs and bureaucracy for users.
The Telegram group, created earlier this month, had more than 42,000 subscribers.
Details about the platform remain limited, but Eric Trump, one of Donald Trump’s sons, said in an interview with the New York Post that the project involves “digital real estate.” This has led to speculation that the project could involve tokenizing real-world assets or selling digitized versions of assets within the metaverse.
Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump backed a DeFi cryptocurrency project led by his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, aimed at challenging big banks and financial elites.
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