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The three-day event, which concluded Friday, boasted memorabilia from films including “Ghostbusters,” “Batman Returns,” “Jurassic Park,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Tron” as well as the TV shows “Star Trek: The Original Series,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Breaking Bad” and “Friends.”

Some of the crypto exchanges 2 in which these transactions have been conducted, according to watchdog groups and law enforcement, include major platforms like Tron, Binance, and the infamous, now-defunct drug marketplace Silk Road.

Even before Trump was sworn in, meanwhile, a Chinese American entrepreneur named Justin Sun—the founder of Tron 6, which operates a crypto-transaction platform and also issues its own tokens 7—announced that he’d bought $30 million of World Liberty Financial’s token and joined the company as an adviser.

The Tron platform, multiple reports have said, is also used frequently by criminal groups including, but not limited to, fentanyl manufacturers.

A report by a firm called Elliptic identified millions of dollars’ worth of transactions conducted on Tron between Mexican drug cartels and Chinese manufacturers who make fentanyl’s “precursor” ingredients, while a November 2023 article in Reuters reported that Tron had overtaken Bitcoin’s network as the platform used most commonly for crypto transfers by Hamas and Hezbollah.