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Tahnoon-chaired MGX selects USD1 for the Binance investment

Reporting and findings

  1. reported

    MGX identifies Sheikh Tahnoon as its board chair, while Reuters reported that MGX would use $2 billion of World Liberty Financial's USD1 to close its Binance investment.

Summary and current status

Tahnoon chaired MGX when it selected World Liberty Financial's USD1 to settle its $2 billion Binance investment.

Tahnoon-chaired MGX selected USD1 for the $2 billion Binance investment

People and organizations

Relationships in this file

  1. Donald J. TrumpTrump-hosted MGX chair in USD1 transactionSheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Money trail

  1. investmentTahnoon-chaired MGX investment settled through USD1$2 billion
    Reported investor / source
    MGX
    Reported investment recipient
    Binance
    reported · 2025-05-01 · observedRead source record
    Calculation detailsPopulation MGX's investment in Binance settled using World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin while Sheikh Tahnoon chaired MGXPeriod 2025-05-01 to 2025-05-01Basis Use the investment face value reported for the MGX-Binance transaction settled with USD1.Limits No proceeds are assigned to Sheikh Tahnoon personally. This duplicates the same MGX-Binance transaction on the Zach Witkoff, batch-200, and Changpeng Zhao records and must not be added to them.