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Investors piled into crypto after Donald Trump’s decisive election victory.

The big global trades of 2025: Bubbles, cockroaches and Trump coins

As the year draws to a close, here are some of this year’s most eye-catching market wagers – the wins, the wipe-outs and the positions that defined the year.

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Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao was pardoned by Trump in October after serving prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

Billionaire pardoned by Trump is back in the spotlight

Fallen crypto king Changpeng Zhao has unfinished business.

  • Olga Kharif and Annie Massa
President Donald Trump

The $393 billion crypto craze that could one day threaten banks

Donald Trump is a fan of these digital assets, and some analysts agree they are genuinely useful for moving money and could challenge lending giants.

  • Clancy Yeates
US President Donald Trump and his crypto tsar David Sacks.

Silicon Valley’s man in Trump’s inner circle is making himself and his friends a lot of money

David Sacks has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the US government, and it is benefiting himself and his friends

  • Cecilia Kang, Tripp Mickle, Ryan Mac, David Yaffe-Bellany and Theodore Schleifer
Eric Trump arrives before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Wipeout: Eric Trump’s company loses half its value in 30 minutes

The selloff was swift as the shares tumbled, triggering repeated trading halts on Wall Street.

  • Monique Mulima
Trump has embraced the crypto industry in his second term.

Trump’s act of genius could spark trouble in the world’s most important market

We are getting a first-hand look at just how risky the Trump administration’s plan to bring crypto assets into the mainstream of the US financial system is.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Kevin Hassett

The one credential Trump craves more than anything

The frontrunner to take over as head of the Federal Reserve has the single quality that Donald Trump is looking for above all.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The inclusion of MGX with its crypto ties to the Trump family is particularly controversial .

Crypto crash helps wipe out $1.6 billion of the Trump family’s fortune

The Trumps – and their followers – are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital currencies.

  • Tom Maloney and Annie Massa
Wall Street bounced higher after the Fed chair’s speech.

The alarm bells are ringing louder in markets

There are cracks appearing in share and crypto markets across the globe.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The 47-year-old lived a life of luxury renting expensive mansions and plotting to become the monarch of a self-proclaimed nation “Liberland” until she was arrested last year, prosecutors said.

‘Super villain’: Chinese woman jailed after $10 billion crypto seizure

Zhimin Qian evaded arrest in China after fleeing on a moped then travelled using fake passports before settling in Britain under a fake name.

  • Upmanyu Trivedi

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