Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, December 9th.

Today on Forbes, how Donald Trump Jr.'s fortune jumped sixfold in a year.

In May, at a Bitcoin conference in America's gambling capital,

Donald Trump Jr. bragged to a cheering Las Vegas crowd about all his ventures into cryptocurrency.

Sitting on stage beside his literal crypto bro, Eric, he rattled off digital asset business after

digital asset business.

He said, quote, we're very long crypto.

I mean, it's a huge part of everything that we do right now.

It is certainly a huge part of his fortune. Last year, the president's oldest son was worth

about $50 million. Today, Forbes estimates the president's oldest son to be worth somewhere in

the ballpark of $300 million, six times higher than in November

2024, and he has crypto to thank for it. For starters, there's World Liberty Financial,

which is turned into a cash cow for the Trump family. The venture has now sold off an estimated

$1.4 billion of tokens, with a slice of that going

to the Trump family, though exactly how much remains somewhat of a mystery.

Filings indicate that the President received roughly 52% of the proceeds at the start of the year,

with his family members, presumably the three listed co-founders, Eric, Don Jr., and Barron, splitting 22%.

Later dealmaking could have changed the economics since then, but if every heir got 7%, that would

leave each with roughly $80 million in cold, hard cash after taxes. Then there's the WLF stable coin, issued by World Liberty Financial.

Since its debut earlier this year, it's added another estimated $19 million to Don Jr.'s

net worth, assuming he and his siblings own the same share of that business.

Beyond that, there's a locked-up stockpile of World Liberty tokens, which might be worth

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