The Trump family is making a fortune in bitcoin, and a Honduran Island is the playground of billionaires, bitcoin investors, and other such types. It comes down to a city in Honduras that had the blessing of the former president of Honduras, who was found guilty of cocaine trafficking, whom Trump just pardoned.
It may all be about making money for the Trump family. I really don’t think Don and his offspring give a shit about America.
The Trump family notched as much as $5 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency.
The launch is akin to an initial public offering, in which the cryptocurrency, called WLFI, can now be bought and sold on the open market like a listed company’s shares. Beforehand, people who had privately bought WLFI from the Trump venture, World Liberty Financial, hadn’t been able to exchange their tokens.
The trading debut was most likely the biggest financial success for the president’s family since the inauguration. The Trump family, including President Trump himself, holds just under a quarter of all WLFI tokens in existence. Trump’s three sons are co-founders of World Liberty, while it names the president a “Co-Founder Emeritus.”
Some news outlets reported that Trump had received some calls from some of the billionaires who are invested in a private city that the former narco-trafficking president had allowed to create. Today, Trump threatened Honduras if his preferred candidate did not win the election. The two in front are both conservatives, but one has probably promised to leave CryptoCity alone.
On the northern coast of Honduras, in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, a futuristic city is quietly being built — one that could redefine how nations, finance, and power coexist. This isn’t your average special economic zone or luxury resort. This is Próspera, a self-governing enclave marketed as the world’s first “Bitcoin City” — a place where billionaires, crypto entrepreneurs, and investors can live, work, and trade in digital currencies, with minimal interference from national laws.
For its founders and supporters, Próspera represents the dawn of a bold new world — one where government inefficiency, corruption, and bureaucracy are replaced by blockchain-based governance and “freedom cities.
… Próspera was conceived in 2020 as part of Honduras’s Zones for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE) initiative — a legal framework that allowed private groups to create semi-autonomous zones with their own tax, legal, and regulatory systems. In other words, they could build “cities within a country,” governed not by politicians but by private charters and corporate boards.
Próspera’s developers quickly set their sights on Roatán, a stunning island off Honduras’s Caribbean coast. They envisioned an urban paradise: sleek glass towers, green hills, and luxury waterfront villas powered by cryptocurrency. On its website, Próspera promised entrepreneurs the ability to “register a company in under an hour”, pay minimal taxes, and conduct business in Bitcoin or other digital assets.
Its creators pitched it as the “Dubai of the Caribbean”, a magnet for global talent and investment — but with blockchain governance, private courts, and deregulated markets. Among its early investors were crypto millionaires, Silicon Valley libertarians, and venture capitalists who saw Próspera not just as a city, but as an ideological statement: that government inefficiency could be replaced by smart contracts and market-based governance.