It was the early hours of January 18, two days before Donald Trump was set to return to the White House. Tom had just slumped into bed when his phone lit up with a message from an old friend: Had he seen? Trump just launched his own cryptocurrency.
Tom leaped to his desk, opened his laptop, and flicked on two additional monitors. “It didn’t feel real,” he says. “I was trying to wrap my head around what had happened.”
Tom leads Raydium, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange registered in the British Virgin Islands that lets people trade between coins without dealing with an intermediary. Like the rest of the Raydium staff, Tom
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