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Justin Sun
孙宇晨
Sun at MC12 in 2022
Permanent Representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization
In office
2021–2023
Personal details
BornJuly 30, 1990 (1990-07-30) (age 36)
Xining, Qinghai, China
EducationPeking University (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (MA)
Known for
Founding TRON
Websitehejustinsun.com

Justin Sun (Chinese: 孙宇晨; pinyin: Sūn Yǔchén; born July 30, 1990) is a Chinese-born businessman.[1] He is the founder of Tron, the developer of Tronix (TRX) cryptocurrency and its blockchain, and a stablecoin named USDD.[2][3] Sun owns Rainberry (formerly BitTorrent Inc.), the developer of BitTorrent protocol, and two cryptocurrency exchanges, Poloniex and HTX (formerly Huobi).[4][5] He is described as Trump family's "biggest crypto backer", heavily investing in the Trump family-associated World Liberty Financial,[6] though he later fell out with the Trump family.[7] From 2021 to 2023, Sun was the permanent representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization. In 2026, Sun reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with a fraud investigation.[8][9]

As of April 2026, Forbes ranks Sun as the 411th-richest person in the world, estimating his net worth at $8.5 billion.[10] His net worth is largely held in cryptocurrency.[5]

Early life and education

Sun was born in 1990 in Xining, Qinghai. His maternal grandfather was a vice mayor of Xining, and died shortly after his birth. During Sun’s childhood, his family moved to Huizhou, Guangdong, where his mother worked as a journalist for the Huizhou Daily and his father joined the municipal planning bureau. At the age of eight, Sun was sent to a private school in Wuhan that specialized in Go and had Nie Weiping as its honorary principal. After three years, Sun failed to qualify as a professional player and returned to Huizhou, where he learned that his parents had divorced. His mother later remarried and moved to Italy.[11]

While attending Huizhou No. 1 High School, Sun, a fan of Han Han, won first prize in the ninth New Concept Writing Competition in 2007, which helped him secure a place at Peking University (PKU).[12] He initially majored in Chinese before switching to history. He spent a year as an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was strongly influenced by professor Chan Kin-man.[13]

At PKU, Sun started gaining public attention through his online writings at Renren[14], notably his criticism of the university’s "consultation program", which targeted academically underperforming students and those considered "radical" or "fragile".[15][16][17][18] His online protest against the sentencing of Liu Xiaobo led to the suspension of his first Renren account in 2009.[19] His image at the time was further enhanced by his journalism internship at the influential Southern Weekly.[20] In 2011, he graduated at the top of his class in PKU's Department of History.[12] In the same year, he appeared on the cover of Hong Kong magazine Yazhou Zhoukan as "China's post-90s elite".[13]

In 2013, Sun received his Master of Arts in East Asian studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became interested in cryptocurrency and was an early investor in Bitcoin.[21][22] He was a signatory to Charter 08[23] and delivered a speech calling for Chinese democracy at a New York symposium organized by the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation in 2012.[24] He joined the inaugural cohort at Hupan University (now Zhejiang Hupan Entrepreneurship Research Center) in 2015 and graduated in 2018.[25][26] In 2019, Sun donated US$1.5 million to Hupan University.[27]

Career

Cryptocurrency

In late 2013, Sun joined Ripple Labs as chief representative and adviser.[28] He was a Davos Global Shaper in 2014.[29]

Sun founded the blockchain-based operating platform Tron and launched the TRX token in 2017.[28][25] Sun is known for his high expectations of Chinese Tron employees, demanding they adopt the 996 working hour system (9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week).[30] In September 2017, Tron held an initial coin offering (ICO) for the TRX token, a few days before the Chinese government banned ICOs. According to The Verge, Sun was aware of the impending ban, and pushed for the sale to occur before the ban could be announced. Shortly afterwards, Sun left China for the United States. Tron raised about $70 million at its ICO.[4] A cryptocurrency whitepaper Sun published attracted controversy following allegations that it was heavily derivative of earlier cryptocurrency whitepapers without any attribution.[30] As of 2025, Sun controls the majority of TRX tokens in circulation.[5]

In June 2018, Sun acquired the company BitTorrent, Inc (later renamed Rainberry Inc.) for $140 million. The company is best known for developing the BitTorrent protocol. During his tenure leading BitTorrent as CEO, the BitTorrent network launched its own utility token, BTT.[4][31][32]

In late 2019, Sun acquired the crypto exchange Poloniex. He moved the company to the Seychelles, which has lax cryptocurrency regulation, and allegedly ordered the relaxing of the exchange's know your customer infrastructure. The Verge alleged in 2021 that Sun demanded that he should be given personal ownership of misplaced Poloniex customer funds that users accidentally sent to wrong wallet addresses, totaling about 300 bitcoin, despite the objections of Poloniex employees.[4] In November 2023 Poloniex had $120 million stolen by hackers. Sun offered to let the hackers keep $6.5 million if they returned the rest of the money within 7 days.[33]

In October 2021, Sun participated in a $65 million funding round in Hong Kong-based Animoca, a maker of crypto and blockchain video games such as The Sandbox.[34]

Sun purchased the cryptocurrency exchange HTX (formerly Huobi) in 2022.[5] In February 2023, he was the largest individual staked ether holder, with a balance of $500 million.[35]

In May 2025, Sun attended a private dinner hosted by Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club for top investors in the $TRUMP meme coin, having spent over $40 million on the token and placing first on its public leaderboard.[36]

Tron became Nasdaq-listed in 2025 via a reverse takeover. The deal was brokered by Dominari Securities, a firm whose board of advisers includes Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.[37]

In May 2026, the UK government sanctioned HTX for alleged violations of international sanctions against Russia.[38]

Lawsuits and investigations

In 2020, a civil lawsuit was filed against Sun by former Tron employees Lucasz Juraszek and Richard Hall, with allegations "ranging from fraud to harassment to whistleblower retaliation". The judge approved Sun's request for private arbitration of the civil case.[30] The Verge alleged that Tron, at the direction of Sun, had engaged in market manipulation by buying/selling TRX tokens with non-public information; the magazine also alleged that as of 2022, Sun was under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and by the United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York for potential criminal prosecution.[4]

In March 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit against Sun for selling unregistered securities related to the sale and promotion of TRX and BTT tokens. Sun allegedly engaged in wash trading and other fraudulent practices to raise the price of TRX in secondary markets.[39][40][41] In addition, eight celebrities were charged with astroturfing, where they promoted the cryptocurrencies without disclosing their sponsorship, including Akon, Ne-Yo, Austin Mahone, Soulja Boy, Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, Lil Yachty, and Michele Mason (Kendra Lust). All of the defendants except Soulja Boy and Austin Mahone settled their cases, making payments in excess of $400,000 without admitting liability.[42][43][39] Gary Gensler, then head of the SEC, said his organization have "alleged significant fraud around Justin Sun and Tron", and, "this is a field that is rife with fraud and scams and mischief".[44]

The SEC dropped its lawsuit against Sun in February 2025, following Donald Trump's inauguration as president. News media sources noted that Sun had purchased $75 million worth of tokens from the Trump-associated World Liberty Financial prior to the SEC dropping the case. According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision "surprised" a number of SEC officials, who were "highly confident in winning the case". Prior to dropping the case, Justin Sun reportedly avoided travel to the United States to avoid being arrested.[45][46][47] Following the SEC's announcement for the settlement,[48] Democrat Elizabeth Warren of the Senate Banking Committee criticized the deal, stating "the SEC should not be a lap dog for Trump's billionaire buddies".[49]

In April 2026, Sun, the largest investor in World Liberty, filed a lawsuit against the Trump-associated company in federal court in California for "extortion", alleging that it had unlawfully frozen his holdings of WLFI tokens after they became tradable in September 2025, resulting in claimed losses of approximately $276 million. The lawsuit also alleged that World Liberty had threatened to "burn", or permanently destroy, the tokens held in Sun’s digital wallet.[50][51][52][53] In May 2026, World Liberty sued back, alleging Sun of defamation for engaging in a public campaign to damage the company's reputation and improperly transferred and shorted WLFI tokens.[54][55]

Diplomacy

Sun was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Grenada, an island country of the West Indies, to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2021. As a result, Sun phased out of his daily roles at his crypto-related projects such as Tron in order to focus on his diplomatic role at the WTO in Geneva. Sun told Bloomberg he would use his role to advocate cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to countries and promote technology development in Grenada. Sun said the Caribbean has "become a very good place for entrepreneurship" because of its close proximity to the U.S., with less strict regulations regarding cryptocurrency.[56] Sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal alleged that he sought the position to obtain diplomatic immunity amid investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.[57]

In December 2021, Sun retired as a CEO of Tron to become a diplomat for Grenada.[28][56][58]

In March 2023, Sun stepped down from his position as Permanent Representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization, which followed the previous governing party of Grenada which had appointed him losing power following the general election the previous year.[59]

In October 2024, Sun was elected as a "Speaker of Congress" and appointed as "Prime Minister" of Liberland, a micronation (self-proclaimed country) that claims to own (but does not control) a small region on the Danube river floodplain border between Serbia and Croatia.[60]

Internet

In 2014, Sun launched Peiwo,[61] an app aspiring to become China's Snapchat that matched and connected users by analyzing 10-second voice samples as well interests. Peiwo has introduced a host of channels for users to make like-minded friends, with online games, talent shows and live streaming.[62] The South China Morning Post described it as a "hook-up app",[61] while The Verge described the app as an "audio-based mashup of Tinder and a live-stream chat room". According to The Verge, the audio chatrooms of Peiwo often had sexually explicit content, which The Verge described as "often border[ing] on some kind of aural pornography". Eventually Peiwo was removed from the Google Play and Apple App Store and shut down by the Chinese government around 2019 for content that "disrupts socialist values."[30][61]

Personal life

In 2017, Sun published his autobiography Brave New World in China, prefaced by businessman Feng Lun [zh], cartoonist Cai Yuedong, and TV host Chen Luyu.

Sun's account on the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo, was banned in 2019.[63] Sun is a heavy user of large language models, claiming himself to "follow AI's suggestion, 100% of the time".

Citizenship and relationship with the Chinese Communist Party

Sun is a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Sometime between 2018 and 2020, Sun acquired a Maltese residency card as a result of investing in the country. He has also attempted to gain citizenship from other countries, including Guinea-Bissau.[4]

A 2022 report by The Verge quoted former Tron employees as saying that Sun "can never return to China". The report nevertheless noted that his "exact relationship with the Chinese authorities has been difficult to surmise", as an article by Sun about blockchain appeared on Xuexi Qiangguo, and he received a blockchain-related teaching appointment at the Central Party School in 2022. The report suggested that this apparent rapprochement may have been facilitated by his alleged connection to Luo Dan, a "special assistant" to the Panchen Lama.[64] In the 2026 post on X, Sun implied that he could not go to mainland China, though he could be in Hong Kong.[65]

Warren Buffett private meal

Sun placed the winning $4.6 million bid to have a private meal with Warren Buffett in June 2019,[66][67] before canceling it to widespread surprise.[68][69] In July, Caixin attributed the cancellation to Sun having been placed under border controls while Chinese authorities considered investigating him for suspected illegal fundraising, money laundering, pornography, and gambling-related offences. Sun denied the report and livestreamed from San Francisco on X, and Caixin further alleged that he had fled China despite having been under border controls since June 2018.[70] Former employees told The Verge that Chinese authorities had pressured Sun to cancel the lunch because Buffett was a "capitalist pig symbol", particularly after he invited US president Donald Trump amid the China–US trade war. The Verge also reported that authorities raided Tron’s offices and detained Sun’s estranged father.[30] The dinner with Buffett, a critic of cryptocurrency, eventually occurred at the Happy Hollow Club in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 23, 2020.[71][72] Sun was joined by other cryptocurrency executives, including leaders of Litecoin, eToro, Huobi, and Binance Charity Foundation.[71][73] At the dinner, Sun gifted Buffett a phone with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.[74] The money from the charity auction benefited the Glide Foundation, which Buffett's late wife Susan introduced to Buffett after volunteering there.[75]

In December 2021, Sun announced that he had previously bid $28 million to be the first paying passenger on Blue Origin's first crewed mission into space on the New Shepard. Although he had won the auction, he was unable to attend the July 2021 flight due to a scheduling conflict. He flew to space in August 2025 aboard Blue Origin NS-34.[76][72][77]

In November 2024, Sun purchased one of the three limited edition rights to Comedian, a 2019 conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall, for $5.2 million ($6.2 million including fees) at an auction in New York.[78] Shortly after the purchase he ate the banana onstage.[79] Sun later pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the New York street vendor who the banana was originally purchased from (reportedly for 25 cents).[80]

Tian Jing

In 2026, Sun broke up with the actress Tian Jing on the suggestion of a chatbot. Sun alleges that Jing requested an additional $50 million prior to her planned egg-retrieval process. Unsure, he consulted Claude, the large language model developed by Anthropic, and refused to send the payment on the chatbot's advice, thus ending their relationship.[81] Sun later sued Jing and her parents for more than ¥30 million that he described as a betrothal gift.[82][83] Following his breakup in relationship, Sun said that "for the first time in [his] life", he questioned the suggestions given by Claude.[84]

Jing responded to Sun's claims on Weibo, claiming that she would not "ever sell [her] love for money, let alone [her] soul". She went on to comment that her "judgment in men is still poor", and "still lacking in wisdom".[81][85]

Sun published a social media post on X (formerly known as Twitter) with intimate personal details of their relationships, followed by disclaiming that the entire post is "fictional". His post received widespread criticism from the Internet.[86][87] Xijin Hu, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and Xiaochuan Wang criticized Sun's improper disclosure of details related to Jing's private life.[88] In response to Hu, Sun framed high bride prices as part of a broader marriage and fertility crisis in China.[89] Both parties have reportedly been subject to online censorship, with their names seemingly removed from trending topics sections on Chinese social media, leading to speculation that they had been blacklisted.[90] Sun's financial portfolio was also subject to online trading restrictions in multiple jurisdictions.[91]

On August 31, Sun's cryptocurrency exchange HTX became inaccessible due to denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks. The self-claimed attacker described their motivation as "disappointment to Sun's recent behavior", and said the attacks are to "teach him a lesson".[86] That same day, Sun issued multiple claims of copyright infringement against negative reports about him.[92]

Bibliography

  • Sun, Yuchen (2017). 这世界既残酷也温柔 [Brave New World] (in Chinese). Jiuzhou Press. ISBN 978-7510850660.[22]

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  81. 1 2 "Crypto mogul Justin Sun's AI-advised breakup with Chinese actress sparks public dispute". www.thestandard.com.hk. Retrieved September 3, 2026. Sun alleged that shortly before Jing was scheduled to undergo an egg retrieval procedure, the actress unexpectedly demanded an additional US$50 million. Faced with the ultimatum, Sun said he consulted Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude for guidance. Acting on the AI's recommendation, Sun rejected the financial demand, effectively ending the relationship.
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  84. ↑ 于, 雷 (August 28, 2026). ""100%听AI"的孙宇晨，第一次和Claude意见不一" [Justin Sun, the "100% AI follower", disagreed with Claude for the first time]. 凤凰网 (in Chinese). Retrieved September 12, 2026. 孙宇晨在接受凤凰网科技独家采访时透露，AI已经深度参与其公司的日常经营决策，部分由AI自动执行的决策金额每天达到数百万乃至上千万美元，涉及审计、审核等工作。不过，一直主张"100%听AI"的孙宇晨称，近期因为个人感情问题，他"可能是人生中第一次"对AI的决策产生质疑。 [In an exclusive interview with IFeng, Sun claimed that AIs have already been deeply involved in the running of his company, where AI's decision-making automatically complete actions impacting tens of millions of dollars every day, on financial auditing and accounting. Previously advocating for "listening to AI, 100%", Sun said he "might have, for the first time in [his] life," started to question the decisions made by an artificial intelligence program.]
  85. ↑ Anh, Nhu (September 4, 2026). "Jing Tian visits spa amid $4.2M dowry lawsuit by crypto billionaire Justin Sun". VnExpress. Retrieved September 5, 2026.
  86. 1 2 盧詩文 (September 1, 2026). "孫宇晨加密貨幣交易所遭攻擊 黑客稱給個教訓：近期行為令人失望". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved September 12, 2026. [...] 在社交平台發布長文詳細披露兩人交往私密細節。事件引發全網廣泛關注和批評。
  87. ↑ 鄭寧 (August 31, 2026). "孫宇晨炒作景甜聰明反被聰明誤？幣圈大亨趙長鵬取關業界集體割席". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved September 12, 2026. [...] 最終引來多方抨擊 [...] 孫宇晨的「小作文」顯然沒有得到其預想的輿論效果。有幣圈同行在X發文大罵孫宇晨「敗壞了幣圈好不容易建立起來的信任。現在網上都以為幣圈的人都是坑蒙拐騙之徒」；亦有人直言他「給幣圈男人丟臉」。[...] 《深藍財經》報導分析，孫宇晨之所以採用如此極端的營銷方式，是因為其帳面財富中佔比15%-20%、重度持倉的「火幣」（已更名為HTX），在歐盟遭禁止交易，制裁於8月23日生效，這相當於該部分資產的流動性瞬間歸零。分析認為，孫宇晨企圖藉此大新聞壓過負面消息，同時通過炒作話題為其旗下的公鏈「波場」吸引用戶與交易量，以支撐公鏈價值。
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  89. ↑ 中時新聞網 (September 1, 2026). "孫宇晨反擊胡錫進！再發小作文扯「2億男性」婚育困境 - 娛樂". 中時新聞網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved September 12, 2026.
  90. ↑ "景甜捲代孕風波傳遭「軟封殺」？多個平台數據一夜清零代言下架 早前與富商孫宇晨鬧糾紛". 星島頭條 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). September 5, 2026. Retrieved September 12, 2026.
  91. ↑ ""洗白失败"的孙宇晨，痛失流量密码" [Justin Sun "failed his whitewashing", lost secret to attention]. Sina Finance (in Chinese (China)). September 8, 2026. Retrieved September 12, 2026.
  92. ↑ 盧詩文 (September 1, 2026). "孫宇晨批量實名投訴自媒體 稱文章使用｢割韭菜｣表述強化負面人設". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved September 12, 2026. 孫宇晨近日對多家自媒體發起批量實名投訴，以「侵犯名譽、商譽、私隱、肖像」為由，要求平台處置使用了「割韭菜」等表述的文章。被投訴對象包括盧克文工作室旗下「雲海觀星社」、36氪、「蘿嚴肅」等。[...] 盧克文 [ 在微博上 ] 發文回應：「幹嘛？親自跑來投訴？文章連你名字都沒提，跟你沒關係，不要緊張。」
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