#DonaldTrump2025 It is a strong gesture that marks the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term as president of the United States: the president has officially granted his presidential pardon to the three co-founders of the cryptocurrency exchange platform BitMEX — Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed.

Donald Trump grants the presidential pardon to the founders of BitMEX

Conditioned in 2022 for violating the Bank Secrecy Act, the three cryptocurrency entrepreneurs admitted to having neglected the implementation of effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems and customer identity verification (KYC). BitMEX had been penalized in January 2025 with a fine of 100 million dollars and subjected to a two-year probation period.